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Date: 28th February 2019
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms
Together has responded to a call for evidence on Scotland’s progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs were launched in 2015 and set out 17 Goals with the aim of encouraging all countries to implement the necessary environmental, economic and social change to achieve peace and prosperity for all.
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Date: 26th February 2019
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care, Domestic abuse, Protection from abuse or neglect
Closing date: Friday, 29th March 2019. The consultation seeks views on proposals to create new protective orders that could be used to keep people at risk of domestic abuse safe by banning perpetrators from their homes and on also seeks views on whether changes are needed to the current system of exclusion orders which allow a victim of domestic abuse to apply to suspend the right of their partner to live in the family home.
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Date: 21st February 2019
Category:
Health and health services, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project has spent three years identifying and critically assessing the differing models of child primary health care that are used across Europe.
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Date: 21st February 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, Access to appropriate information, Equal protection from violence, Freedom of association and peaceful assembly, Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Closing date: Sunday, 3rd March 2019. FMQT Next Generation is giving children and young people another opportunity to question the First Minister in person, or submit questions, ensuring that the voices of children and young people are heard in Scottish politics.
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Date: 21st February 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
The UNHCR published a new report urging authorities to end detention of children for immigration purposes, integrate children in their national systems, and provide them with the guardianship systems.
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Date: 21st February 2019
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
CRIN is a creative think tank that produces new and dynamic perspectives on human rights issues, with a focus on children’s rights. CRIN is saying goodbye to business as usual and introducing the CRIN code. The code sets out their values, principles and vision for a rights-respecting world and how they intend to get there.
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Date: 21st February 2019
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Closing date: Friday, 15th March 2019. This Special Issue proposal for Emotion, Space and Society is seeking proposals that explore the role of emotional relations in how children and young people’s participation rights are embraced, contested, realized, resisted and experienced.
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Date: 21st February 2019
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Closing date: Sunday, 31st March 2019. The Committee invites all interested parties to comment on the current draft of the Guidelines. Comments are welcome on all aspects of the draft Guidelines, and after due consideration of inputs provided, the Committee will decide on the contents of the final version of the Guidelines. All comments should adhere to the following:
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Last year Getting it Right for Every Child Practice Development Panel was established and tasked by ministers to develop a Code of Practice around information sharing, for children, families and people who support them. Together’s Director Juliet Harris is one of the panel members who will be responsible for producing a draft Code of Practice for information sharing, by consensus.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
A historic moment for Brue Adamson, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner, happened on 25th September as he was asked to give the first Rhodri Morgan Annual Lecture focusing on children’s rights at the Senedd, or the National Assembly of Wales.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Bullying, Mental health
#CelebratingDifference - stage two of respectme’s #ChooseRespect anti-bullying campaign, is now live.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Equal protection from violence, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Protection from abuse or neglect, Parental guidance, General measures of implementation, Best interests of the child
The States of Jersey has voted to repeal a section of a law which allowed smacking by a parent if it was deemed "reasonable" making it illegal.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Access to appropriate information, Family reunification, Care Experienced children, Protection from abuse or neglect, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Awareness-raising, Best interests of the child, Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children
Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB) have created a factsheet for social workers and any professional protecting children on the impact Brexit may have on children and families who are crossing, or separated by, international boarders living in the UK.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Awareness-raising
The Best of UNICEF Research 2018 was recently published. This research underscored the need to view both forms of violence against children and intimate partner violence (women) as overlapping issues with common risk factors.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, General principles
During the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s review of Guinea, Committee member Mikiko Otani asked Guinea about the status of a bill on Human Rights Defenders which came about following an initiative from civil society.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Between 18th January and 1st February, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child held its 80th session.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, Access to appropriate information, Awareness-raising, General measures of implementation, Incorporation, General principles
The Human Rights Education Review Report has published a report identifying a number of violations of the human rights of children in school settings.
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Date: 12th February 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Child Rights Connect have shared their planned work for the 30th Anniversary of the UNCRC – you can find out more about it here.
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Date: 11th February 2019
Category:
Respect for the views of the child, Training, Education, including vocational education
Contributions wanted for ‘Theory and Practice of Voice in Early Childhood: A Guide for the Early Years’.
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Date: 11th February 2019
Category:
Access to appropriate information, Awareness-raising, Respect for the views of the child, Age of criminal responsibility, Child justice system
In 2018, Police Scotland launched its first dedicated Facebook page for young people along with re-designing its digital platforms to ensure information is available when needed.
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