Date: 4th September 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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This pack of 30 cards are designed for primary school teachers to facilitate a game of charades that can help children discuss, learn, and share experiences of the Coronavirus pandemic in a safe, fun and educational way.

Date: 4th September 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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‘Hannah’ a new virtual assistance to answer questions about COVID-19 and child protection has been launched by The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

Date: 4th September 2020
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This resource supports teachers to equip young people with an understanding of the context of apartheid South Africa, the life of Nelson Mandela and the connections to the Scottish anti-apartheid movement. It also draws links to modern day injustices and racism and helps to develop young people’s capacity to campaign and create speeches.

Date: 4th September 2020
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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This guide provides ideas to ensure continuity of learning during school closures. It also offers comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, whilst also meeting the needs of the most marginalised girls.

Date: 21st August 2020
Category: Education, including vocational education
Author: Education Scotland

This resource for leaders and educators includes a non-exhaustive list of international, national and local level responses which have been used to adapt to the new ways of working in education in light of COVID-19.

Date: 21st August 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

Listen to a question and answer session between young people from all four nations’ commissioners’ offices and three scientists from the UK’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).

Date: 21st August 2020
Category: Health and health services, Mental health
Author: Youthlink Scotland

Staff at YouthLink Scotland have put their ‘heids together’ with leading mental health charities Penumbra and See Me Scotland to create a collection of free, online resources for youth workers to help reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the health and wellbeing of young people in Scotland.

Date: 21st August 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Children's Parliament

Back to School is an online resource to support schools take a rights-based approach as COVID-19 restrictions relax and schools reopen.  This resource is filled with practical activities to support conversations between children, children and adults in school, designed to help school staff to understand children’s experiences of lockdown and their wellbeing needs in the current context.

Date: 21st August 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms
Author: Children in Scotland

In the August/September 2020 edition, Children in Scotland reflects on some of the lessons learned from the last few months and how these lessons can help shape society as Scotland recovers from COVID-19.

Date: 21st August 2020
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This toolkit is designed to empower young people to create change on issues which matter to them, by offering support through each phase of youth activism.

Date: 21st August 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Zero Tolerance

You Can Be is a campaign to give children best start in life without the limit of stereotypes. This animation discusses the dangers of gender stereotyping adding an additional resource to Zero Tolerance's already existing range of campaign materials.

Date: 7th August 2020
Category: Special Protection Measures
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This webinar highlighted the key findings of the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty (GSCDL) in the context of COVID-19 and was moderated by the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children, Najat Maalla M’jid and featured the participation of the UN inter-agency Task Force for the GSCDL.

Date: 7th August 2020
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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Children in Scotland was recently tasked with creating a version of the review of the implementation of the Additional Support for Learning (ASL) legislation for children and young people using accessible language. This review considered the implementation of the ASL legislation and how it could be enhanced through better use of resources, staffing or other aspects of provision.

Date: 7th August 2020
Category: Mental health, Basic Health and Welfare
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On My Mind aims to empower young people to make informed choices about their mental health and wellbeing. The resources have been co-produced by young people to help other young people and they can be used by professionals too.

Date: 7th August 2020
Category: Education, including vocational education, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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The return to school may pose additional challenges and worries for children and young people with learning difficulties. After speaking to parents, carers, teachers, children and young people, the Back to School Toolkit is packed with resources to support everyone in the transition.

Date: 7th August 2020
Category: Respect for the views of the child
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Children in Scotland’s podcast explores how professionals can ensure they are taking a child’s rights-based approach in their work by facilitating meaningful participation.

Date: 7th August 2020
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Listen in to a new podcast series on food poverty hosted by young people. The podcasts consider what it means to be hungry in the UK in the 21st century during COVID-19.

Date: 22nd July 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Clan Childlaw

The webinars cover four issues that Clan Childlaw recognises have been difficult for young people throughout the pandemic, these are: contact with family, moving accommodation, care leavers’ rights to continue care and aftercare and housing and homelessness.

Date: 22nd July 2020
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This is Glasgow Disability Alliance’s first podcast about supporting each other in the LGBT disabled people’s network to speak out about life as a disabled LGBT+ person in Scotland and LGBT history.

Date: 22nd July 2020
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Author: Youthlink Scotland

Under the Scottish Government’s route map, the youth work sector has been given the go-ahead to return to some face-to-face delivery outdoors from 13th July 2020. As such, guidance has been developed to support a planned and informed approach to the gradual, phased return of face-to-face delivery. Guidance to support employers to resume practice safely in line with public health advice has also been created.