Date: 27th October 2015
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles
Author: Scottish Government

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Guide for Children & Young People provides details of the 42 Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in a child and young people friendly manner.

Date: 27th October 2015
Category: General measures of implementation, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
Author: Rights Info

This excellent new resource encapsulates what human rights are, why we have them, the history of human rights and how they are now under attack. The animation was designed to make human rights understandable and accessible to all.

Date: 27th October 2015
Category: Access to appropriate information, Civil Rights and Freedoms, General principles
Author: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

In the context of their work in the area of children and justice, FRA has recently published a series of animation films about rights that children should enjoy when being involved in judicial proceedings.

Date: 13th October 2015
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, General principles
Author: Growing Up in Scotland study

On the 6th October 2015, GUS held an anniversary event to celebrate 10 years of GUS and to reflect on what research findings have shown. Two reports have been published; the first on key messages to tackle inequalities in the early years, the second on comparing the circumstances and experiences of children living in Scotland.

Date: 13th October 2015
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Child Rights Connect

The 2015 Centre for Children's Rights, Queen's University Belfast partnered with the Child Rights Connect Working Group on Investment in Children to conduct a consultation of how children think that governments should invest in their rights. In the end, almost 2,700 children from more than 70 countries were involved through surveys and interviews.

Date: 6th October 2015
Category: Looked after children
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

CELCIS has published a series of reports exploring the unique issues for children and young people looked after at home in Scotland.

Date: 29th September 2015
Category: Awareness-raising, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles
Author: UNICEF UK

A Unicef UK Rights Respecting School is a community where children's rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. Children and young people and the school community learn about children's rights by putting them into practice every day. Unicef have recently launched a new Rights Respecting Schools website, as well as a new Scotland-specific resource called the Child Rights Launchpad.

Date: 29th September 2015
Category: Awareness-raising, Looked after children
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

National Care Leavers Week is fast approaching! It will be a week-long celebration of the contributions of Care Leavers Across Scotland. This year's theme is 'Looking to the future'.

Date: 10th September 2015
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities
Author: Education Scotland

The Better Movers and Thinkers (BMT) Resource on the Education Scotland website introduces an approach to learning and teaching in Physical Education to develop the ability of all children and young people to move and think in a more cohesive way.

Date: 21st July 2015
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities
Author: Youthlink Scotland

The YouthLink Scotland Policy Forum has been working to explore the commonalities in national policy for youth work and play. They have prepared a briefing paper and are requesting YouthLink Scotland members to share their experiences.

Date: 21st July 2015
Category: Children in situations of exploitation, Protection of privacy, Respect for the views of the child
Author: roshni

On the 20th of May 2015 roshni hosted an event which brought together minority ethnic young people and policymakers to discuss child sexual exploitation and radicalisation. A briefing has been produced detailing the main themes emerging from discussions and recommendations for future work.

Date: 21st July 2015
Category: Training
Author: Youthlink Scotland

Free full day training sessions will be available for youth workers who would like to know more about supporting young people to undertake research into issues that affect them and their communities.

Date: 23rd June 2015
Category: Health and health services
Author: The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

The Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) and NHS Health Scotland have joined forces to launch a series of short films highlighting the power of human rights to improve people's health and the care and support they access.

Date: 23rd June 2015
Category: Children in situations of exploitation, Parental guidance, Protection of privacy
Author: Respectme

YouthLink Scotland is working with Respectme to support the delivery of free online safety workshops for parents, volunteers and staff within the youth work sector.

Date: 8th June 2015
Category:
Author: Edinburgh Youth Work Consortium

A literature review (full report, summary and presentation) by the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Youth Work Consortium on the impact of universal youth work is now available.

Date: 8th June 2015
Category:
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

Children's Hearings Scotland has been working with Who Cares? Scotland to find out from care experienced young people what kind of person would make the perfect panel member.

Date: 8th June 2015
Category: General principles
Author: Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration

SCRA has produced a new 'Going to a Children's Hearing' film. The short film is aimed at helping to prepare children and young people who are going to a Hearing for the first time.

Date: 2nd June 2015
Category: Awareness-raising
Author: Scottish Government

The new 'wellbeing for young Scots' site provides an information point which children and young people can refer to access information on the key role of the Named Person, find out about wellbeing and what it means and how to get extra support.

Date: 28th April 2015
Category: Awareness-raising, Child poverty, Respect for the views of the child
Author: The Shetland Islands Council

The Shetland Islands Council has produced a short drama based on youth-led peer research, focusing on perspectives of life in Shetland.

Date: 17th February 2015
Category: Children with disabilities
Author: Disability Matters

Disability Matters is a new e-learning resource for the UK workforce with group learning resources to help challenge and positively change some of the fears and attitudes towards disability and disabled children and young people.