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Date: 4th October 2016
Category:
Child rights indicators
Author:
UNICEF
UNICEF has produced an interactive mapping of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) which highlights the connections and synergies between the two frameworks.
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Date: 4th October 2016
Category:
Social security and childcare
Author:
Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
It has been almost a year since the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant was published. In this blog, Debbie Nolan considers how we can make the promises made in the Covenant a reality, and improve outcomes for Scotland's care leavers.
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Date: 20th September 2016
Category:
Social security and childcare
Author:
the Self-Directed Support (SDS) Consortium
This report sets out the findings from a knowledge exchange project which focused on young people's transition from school to adult life against the backdrop of the Social Care (Self-Directed Support) (Scotland) Act (2013).
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Date: 20th September 2016
Category:
Awareness-raising
Author:
CYPCS
The Golden Rules Symbols packs produced by the Office of the Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland are now back in stock, and the office have also created a 7 Golden Rules Planning and Reflection tool.
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Date: 20th September 2016
Category:
Children with disabilities
Author:
Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children
Read about a new model to support practice aimed at improving disabled children's participation. in decision making.
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Date: 7th September 2016
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare
Author:
Nourish Scotland
The UK's Childhood Obesity Strategy was launched last week - in response, Nourish Scotland's Advocacy Manager Elli Kontorravdis has written a new blog article outlining where and why the strategy has fallen short of expectation for children in Scotland and the UK.
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Date: 7th September 2016
Category:
Education, including vocational education
Author:
BEMIS
BEMIS, in collaboration with a number of European partners has become part of the Validation System in Lifelong Learning Experiences of Youth Volunteering (VALLEY) project. The project aims to provide a new approach to promoting volunteering among young people.
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Date: 6th September 2016
Category:
Children with disabilities
Author:
Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
Young people with learning disabilities are at risk of being disadvantaged in the youth justice and criminal justice systems if they do not have the right support. The CYCJ have provided an information sheet giving useful techniques for communication.
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Date: 24th August 2016
Category:
Children of prisoners
Author:
Families Outside
'Picking up the pieces' is a new resource written specifically for families based on input from those who have lived through family members convicted of sexual offence - this resource is designed to help people cope with this experience.
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Date: 24th August 2016
Category:
Bullying
Author:
This publication by respectme (Scotland's anti-bullying service) will look at bullying behaviour, both face to face and online. It aims to build practical skills to support children to deal with bullying behaviour.
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Date: 24th August 2016
Category:
Protection of privacy
Author:
Scottish Parliament
This briefing by SPICe (the Scottish Parliament Information Centre) summarises the Named Person judgement, the parliamentary passage of the legislation and looks briefly at other Scottish Parliament legislation that has been challenged in the courts.
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Date: 24th August 2016
Category:
Recreation, play and cultural activities
Author:
SALTO Cultural Diversity
Value the Difference is a resource pack for youth workers, containing information and tools to engage young people across many topics relating to cultural diversity.
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Date: 24th August 2016
Category:
Education, including vocational education
Author:
Enquire
This new blog post from Enquire, Scotland's advice service for additional support for learning, explores the child's rights to a full-time education.
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Date: 10th August 2016
Category:
Looked after children
Author:
Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children
New guidance to support the implementation of Part 13 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, and on the associated Kinship Care Assistance (Scotland) Order 2016 is now available.
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Date: 10th August 2016
Category:
Looked after children
Author:
Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children
The Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children have published a blog analysing the statistics around Scotland's attainment gap.
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Date: 10th August 2016
Category:
Social security and childcare
Author:
Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
SCRA has produced a new briefing sheet to help new and recently qualified social workers help prepare children and young people for Hearings.
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Date: 10th August 2016
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
Author:
Children's Hearings Scotland
Children's Hearings Scotland will be launching their annual campaign to recruit new Children's Panel members on 15th August.
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Date: 10th August 2016
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author:
the Carnegie UK Trust
Four projects, spread across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland are working with young people, exploring their barriers to digital inclusion and developing ways to improve basic digital skills.
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Date: 10th August 2016
Category:
Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
Author:
OCHCHR
As the third cycle of the UPR approaches, and with the aim of improving the effectiveness of these written submissions, the OHCHR has developed new guidelines for 'other stakeholders' and has devised 'Matrices of recommendations of countries to be reviewed during the 3rd cycle of the UPR'.
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Date: 27th July 2016
Category:
Children affected by substance misuse
Author:
The Commissioner's office has produced a briefing alongside work with the Scottish Government and other partners to develop new guidance around the issue of meeting healthcare needs in schools. A consultation on the draft guidance will be carried out over the summer.
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