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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

Date: 27th July 2016
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: ASH Scotland

ASH Scotland have written a blog for the Commissioner's Office. The blog is a useful resource for protecting children from the effects of second-hand smoke and why this matters from a rights perspective.

Date: 27th July 2016
Category: Looked after children
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

Watch this new animation from CELCIS which explains how they work to reduce waiting times for young people without a permanent place to live.

Date: 27th July 2016
Category: Looked after children
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

CELCIS regularly upload various resources, covering a wide range of topics relating to the welfare of looked after children including research, blogs and evaluations.

Date: 27th July 2016
Category: Child poverty
Author: Eurochild

A resource developed with children, for children. This child friendly resource explains the Recommendation on Investing in Children, which was produced originally by the European Commission in 2013.

Date: 27th July 2016
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Kopin

This new resource is a set of recommended principles to guide actions concerning children on the move and other children affected by migration, prepared by a large number of experts from UN agencies, academics, donor agencies and civil society organisations.

Date: 29th June 2016
Category: Additional support for learning
Author: Education Scotland

Education Scotland has refreshed its self-evaluation framework for Community Learning and Development practitioners. The new framework replaces How Good is Our Community Learning and Development? (2nd edition) published in 2006.

Date: 29th June 2016
Category: Looked after children
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

This resource demonstrates the journey a young person leaving the care system can take. It is aimed at both practitioners and young people moving towards more independent living and young adulthood.

Date: 29th June 2016
Category: Child poverty
Author: Scottish Government

An easy-read summary of statistics on poverty in Scotland. This has been developed jointly with the Scottish Government and Poverty Truth Commission (PTC) and includes the main statistical headlines alongside contributions from people with experience of living in poverty.

Date: 15th June 2016
Category: Protection from abuse or neglect
Author: roshni

roshni has developed a free national resource aimed at frontline staff and professionals across the public, private and third sectors which is Level 9 SCQA credit-rated entitled 'Supporting Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Building Knowledge and Skills (CSA2)'

Date: 15th June 2016
Category: Awareness-raising
Author:

People under 18 have human rights, just like everyone else. What are these rights, and how are they protected in Scotland?

Date: 15th June 2016
Category: Mental health
Author: NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC)

A new website developed by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC) has been launched specifically to promote mental health and wellbeing in young people.