Date: 27th November 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Nominations for the National Youth Work Awards 2018 are now open. The National Youth Work Awards will celebrate youth work and the youth workers who make a difference every year in the lives of young people.

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Protection from abuse or neglect

Scottish Government have published a Delivery Plan to support Equally Safe, Scotland's Strategy for preventing and eradicating violence against women and girls, which was published in 2014 and updated in 2016.

Date: 20th November 2017
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

Tomorrow MPs debating the EU (Withdrawal) Bill will decide the fate of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. In its current form the Bill proposes abandoning the Charter despite "copying and pasting" the rest of EU law onto the UK statute book. Several amendments have been proposed which aim to save the Charter and it is these which shall form the core of tomorrow's debates.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, General measures of implementation

Together has been continuing its work on Brexit and its implications for children's rights protection.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: General measures of implementation

Maree Todd MSP has been appointed the new Minister for Childcare and Early Years by the First Minister.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Child justice system

The CYCJ have released two new reports, one written by their Youth Improvement Board on young people and custody and another which features the voices of young people with direct experience of secure care.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Child poverty

Campaigners have welcomed a unanimous vote by Scottish Parliament to introduce statutory targets to reduce child poverty.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: General measures of implementation

Scottish Parliament's Education and Skills Committee have held their final evidence session on the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill, with Deputy First Minister John Swinney giving evidence.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: UK 3rd periodic review

The UN High Commissioner has written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about the recent Universal Periodic Review of the UK that took place this year.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence

About three-quarters of the world's children aged two to four years old experience physical or verbal violence, or both, by their caregivers at home, according to a new UNICEF report.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Scottish Government are undertaking a consultation on the Education (Scotland) Bill which aims to create a school and teacher-led education system.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Views are being sought on the presumption of mainstreaming which will ensure that local authorities have the guidance required to help their decision making in this area.

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Non-discrimination, Best interests of the child, Respect for the views of the child

Scottish Government are seeking views on proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 with regards to transgender people applying for legal recognition of their acquired gender.

Date: 30th October 2017
Category: Child justice system

The Justice Committee has concluded an inquiry into the system governing the disclosure of criminal records in relation to offences committed by people when under 18 years old finding that the current system falls short of the UK's obligations under the UNCRC.

Date: 30th October 2017
Category: General measures of implementation

The Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland (CYPCS) and the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have published its annual reports, highlighting some of the ways they helped to protect and promote human and children's rights in Scotland during 2016-2017.

Date: 29th October 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence

Scotland is expected to become the first UK nation to introduce equal protection for children after John Finnie MSPs' Bill received the backing of Scottish Government.

Date: 29th October 2017
Category: Incorporation, Awareness-raising

The Scottish Youth Parliament's (SYP) campaign on young people's rights, Right Here, Right Now - which launched on Friday 27th October - is calling on the nation's policy makers for full incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law.

Date: 29th October 2017
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

My Life My Say, a new report co-published by APPG Brexit and LSE, finds that young people in the UK are worried that Brexit will increase inequality and intolerance.

Date: 29th October 2017
Category: Social security

This new briefing from CRAE explains how taking a children's rights approach to homeless policy could help challenge and tackle issues of children experiencing homelessness and being forced to live in temporary accommodation such as Bed and Breakfasts, often for long periods of time.

Date: 29th October 2017
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

As many as 400 unaccompanied refugee children who claim to have relatives in the UK are trapped in France, where their asylum cases are not being actively considered, human rights lawyers have said in a new report.