‘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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‘Value the Difference’ Resource Pack

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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‘What does the law say about part-time education?’

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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National Guidance on Part 13: Support for Kinship Care published

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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The attainment gap - a look behind the stats

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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Briefing sheet for social workers

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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Annual Children’s Panel recruitment campaign

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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New video explores importance of digital inclusion

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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New technical guidelines for stakeholders' written submissions for third cycle of UPR published

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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Briefing: Complex healthcare needs in schools

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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A rights-based approach to second-hand smoke: blog

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.

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What is Permanence all about?

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.

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Looked After Children: Knowledge Bank

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.

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Child friendly recommendation on Investing in Children

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.

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New guidance document: children affected by migration

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.

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