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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland is looking for volunteers to find the most interesting content from across the web to share with other young people. 
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting
Together will be holding a reception on the 16th November in Scottish Parliament from 6 - 8pm.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
General measures of implementation
The Committee is issuing an open call for evidence, asking interested parties and stakeholders to submit evidence on any impact of the UK's proposed withdrawal from the EU on the human rights framework and protection of human rights in the UK. Together has responded.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Right to life, survival and development
This new report was commissioned by the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland and delivered in partnership with Home-Start UK Scotland.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Care Experienced children
This new paper summarises the key messages arising from the Secure Care National Project and raises important issues for the review of Scotland's care system.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Following the Deputy First Minister's September announcement of a major governance review into the way schools are run, the review is seeking direct input from children and young people themselves.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
General principles
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has published its Annual Report for 2015-2016. In a shifting constitutional landscape, Scotland remains on a generally positive path in advancing human rights, but significant challenges and gaps continue to be felt.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Awareness-raising
The Commissioner and his team produce an annual report each year to tell people what they have been doing - alongside the report, the office has produced a film made by young people who chose what they felt would be interesting.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
General principles
The national baseline assessment of the current state of affairs in Scotland in relation to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights has now been published on the SNAP website, along with an invitation to provide comments and responses through a survey.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Social security
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has welcomed the Government's Children and Social Work Bill as including significant enhancements of the rights of children in England and Wales, but recommends that Parliament take the opportunity presented by the Bill to enhance the protection of children's rights.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Child justice system, Protection of privacy
The UK government's Prevent strategy is targeting broad groups of children who have no links to terrorism, according to a new report by Open Society Justice Initiative.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
U-Report is an anonymous messaging service that allows children to speak out on issues that matter. New questions are sent out every week, to which live results on what children around the country are thinking on that topic.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Freedom of association and peaceful assembly, Child poverty
LGBT Youth Scotland's Housing and Homelessness Youth Commissioners want to hear from LGBT young people who have experience of homelessness. They are gathering young people's stories to help evidence the need for a National Strategy that recognises the role discrimination plays in increasing the risk of homelessness.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Inclusive education
The government are almost doubling the free entitlement in the Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) provision to 1140 hours per day by 2020. This consultation will help support the development of these policy approaches.
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Date: 1st November 2016
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Following on from the consultation of the National Care Standards in 2014, the next phase of the National Care Standards Review is to develop a set of Standards linked to the overarching Principles which were approved by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport in February 2016.
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Date: 18th October 2016
Category:
Armed conflict
A new Medact report sets out the biological, medical and public health grounds for increasing the age of military enlistment in the UK.
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Date: 18th October 2016
Category:
Child trafficking
The draft Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy sets out what the Scottish Government plans to do to tackle trafficking.
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Date: 18th October 2016
Category:
Right to life, survival and development
The Human Rights Council has requested the OHCHR to conduct a study on the relationship between climate change and the full and effective enjoyment of the rights of the child.
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Date: 18th October 2016
Category:
General principles
The Minister for Childcare and Early Years, Mark McDonald MSP, has highlighted the 2016 UNCRC Concluding Observations in an open letter.
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Date: 17th October 2016
Category:
Care Experienced children
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced a consultation on more choice for free childcare hours and a review of the care system for looked-after children.
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