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  • Write for the Children’s Commissioner’s Office: be one of their young bloggers

    Date: 15th November 2016
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author:

    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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  • Children and Access to Justice: National Practices, International Challenges

    Date: 15th November 2016
    Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
    Author: Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

    The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law has released a report on access to justice for children which compares practices from several different national jurisdictions, including Scotland.

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  • Position Paper - 'Information Sharing provisions: the way forward'

    Date: 2nd November 2016
    Category: Protection of privacy
    Author: Clan Childlaw

    Following the Supreme Court judgment in July which struck out the information sharing provisions of the Named Person Scheme, CLAN Childlaw has published a position paper on how Scottish Government should respond on the issue.

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  • Children’s Hearings System fact sheets updated

    Date: 1st November 2016
    Category: Children in conflict with the law
    Author: SCRA

    A range of fact sheets produced by SCRA about the Children's Hearings System have been updated and published.

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  • Child Poverty, Health and Wellbeing eLearning Module

    Date: 1st November 2016
    Category: Child poverty
    Author: NHS Health Scotland

    This learning resource aims to raise awareness of the plight of young peoples' poverty issues in Scotland, and the impact poverty has on their health and wellbeing. It reflects key messages on health inequalities, making it a relevant topic.

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  • Increasing well-being and engagement for new dads

    Date: 1st November 2016
    Category: Parental responsibilities
    Author: Fathers Network Scotland

    In 2015, Fathers Network Scotland commissioned a research project to develop and deliver a pilot series of evidence-based workshops to support first time fathers in the workplace. This report describes the workshop materials that were developed and outlines key findings from evaluations.

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  • Fearless – crime resource for young people

    Date: 18th October 2016
    Category: Children in conflict with the law, Children in situations of exploitation
    Author: Fearless.org

    Fearless is a site where young people can access non-judgemental information and advice about crime and criminality.

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  • Harmful Sexual Behaviour Among Children and Young People

    Date: 18th October 2016
    Category: Children in conflict with the law
    Author: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    This guideline covers children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour, including those on remand or serving community or custodial sentences.

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  • Young people create new resource for teachers

    Date: 4th October 2016
    Category: Looked after children
    Author: The Young People’s Organising and Campaigning Group (YPOC)

    The Young People's Organising and Campaigning Group (YPOC) in Aberdeen has launched a new DVD guide for school staff and pupils, on how they can support looked after children.

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  • UNICEF mapping of SDGs and UNCRC

    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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  • “From rhetoric to reality: improving outcomes for care leavers” - blog

    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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  • One year on - 2015 report on helping young people move on successfully

    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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  • New ‘7 Golden Rules for Participation’ resources available

    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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  • Findings and recommendations for the participation of young people with learning disabilities

    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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  • ‘Childhood Obesity Strategy – Fundamentally Lacking in Strategy’

    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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  • Volunteering experiences for young people

    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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  • Communicating with young people with learning disabilities

    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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  • Support for Families of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence

    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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  • Bullying – a new guide for parents and carers

    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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  • SPICe has published briefing on Named Person judgment

    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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