Date: 14th June 2013
Category: General measures of implementation, UK 1st periodic review
Author: European Commission

The European Commission has published practical human rights guidance for enterprises in three business sectors: employment and recruitment agencies, ICT companies, and oil and gas companies.

Date: 3rd June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Respectme

A new, revamped respectme website will shortly be launched at the end of June, continuing to offer practical advice and guidance and making it easier for adults and children and young people to navigate their way round.

Date: 3rd June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: UNICEF

UNICEF's 2013 'State of the World's Children' report is focused on children with disabilities and was launched on 29th May 2013.

Date: 29th May 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government have launched extensive online training materials for anyone involved with looked after children, care leavers and their families, in partnership with CELCIS.

Date: 7th May 2013
Category: Children in situations of exploitation
Author: European Commission

The European Commission has published the first report on trafficking of human beings, in which 23,632 people were identified as, or presumed to be, victims of trafficking in the EU between 2008 and 2010.

Date: 2nd May 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has recently published updated guidance, titled 'Managing allegations against foster carers and approved kinship carers.'

Date: 30th April 2013
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

The Golden Rules of Participation are a set of principles designed to help anyone working with, and for, children and young people.

Date: 30th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

This paper is part of a series addressing the equality groups of gender, LGBT, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, and pregnancy and maternity.

Date: 29th April 2013
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: NSPCC

A report has been produced by the NSPCC Strategy Unit, compiling the most up-to-date child protection data that exists for each of the four nations in the UK.

Date: 26th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

In June 2013, the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 will come into force and like its predecessors the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, there will be significant changes to hearings, however the fundamental role of panel members will remain the same.

Date: 17th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Civil Society Section is pleased to share the revised Practical Guide for NGO Participants: United Nations Human Rights Council.

Date: 12th April 2013
Category:
Author: Children's Rights Information Network

CRIN is launching a toolkit designed to give advocates a better sense of the new complaints mechanism in the hope that they will be prepared and inspired to help children bring violations of their rights to international attention.

Date: 12th April 2013
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Eurochild

To mark International Roma Day (8th April 2013), Eurochild published the report "Breaking the cycle of Roma exclusion - The situation of Roma children & promising practices that promote children's rights and well-being".

Date: 10th April 2013
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms
Author: Eurochild

EAPN and Eurochild have launched their Explainer "Towards Children's Well-Being in the EU", which aims to raise public awareness on child poverty in Europe and on the devastating effects it has on lives of children and families as well as on society as a whole.

Date: 10th April 2013
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Scottish Government

This document sets out a summary of the key Scottish Government policies that aim to support young people's health and wellbeing.

Date: 31st March 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

The Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) have produced a briefing on supporting care leavers in Scotland, outlining the legal, policy and practice positions for working with care leavers, before going on to situate the importance of lived experiences of leaving care by young people and adult care leavers.

Date: 26th March 2013
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

A report by Professor Jane Aldgate reviews how embedding the Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) approach supports implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Date: 26th March 2013
Category:
Author: UNICEF

UNICEF UK's new policy briefing A post-2015 world fit for children: the role of business identifies the steps that businesses should take to maximise their impact on development and the role that the UK Government must play to support responsible business behaviour.

Date: 21st March 2013
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Wave Trust

Conception to age 2 - the age of opportunity contains recommendations to guide both national and local decision-makers and commissioners in reducing the causes of disadvantage at the earliest and most effective point in life.

Date: 18th March 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

A unique Handbook to help embed children's rights in alternative care provision across the globe has been launched; the first resource of its kind.