Children and young people ‘Looked after at home’ in Scotland

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.

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Unicef launches new Rights Respecting Schools Award websites

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.

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National Care Leavers Week Scotland 2015

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'.

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Better Movers and Thinkers

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.

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Playing Together: youth work and play work

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.

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Exploiting, Exploited: A national discussion on child sexual exploitation and radicalisation

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.

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Free Training: youth-led research, supporting young people to tackle sectarianism

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.

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New films show power of human rights to improve people’s health and care

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.

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Online Safety Workshops for Parents, Volunteers and Staff

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.

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Universal Youth Work: A Critical Review of the Literature

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.

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The Perfect Panel Member

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.

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Going to a Children’s Hearing

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.

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Wellbeing for Young Scots site

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.

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Youth-led documentary into poverty, social exclusion and inequality

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.

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Disability Matters: new e-learning resource

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.

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What next? Ways forward for children’s and young people’s participation

Date: 7th January 2015
Category: Awareness-raising, Best interests of the child, Respect for the views of the child
Author: Carine Le Borgne

This research study, produced by Carine Le Borgne (doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh) presents a review of the key theoretical perspectives and practice in relation to children's and young people's participation.

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The United Nations Universal Periodic Review -A Guide for NGOs in Scotland

Date: 16th September 2014
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Human Rights Consortium Scotland

The Human Rights Consortium Scotland and the Glasgow University Law in Action initiative have collaborated to provide a Guide on the UN's 'Universal Periodic Review' of the UK's human rights record.

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New Child Rights Launchpad in Scotland

Date: 2nd September 2014
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: UNICEF

UNICEF UK has launched an exciting new children's rights experience for children and young people in Scotland, as part of the 'Put Children First' partnership with the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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New children’s advocacy guide

Date: 22nd July 2014
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has added a new children's advocacy section to their website, to be used as a guide for anyone who advocates for a child or young person.

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Equally Ours: sharing stories about human rights

Date: 22nd July 2014
Category: Awareness-raising, General measures of implementation
Author: Equally Ours

Equally Ours is a partnership between eight charities providing a communications hub and aiming to inspire everyone to understand how human rights benefit all of us in the UK, every day, in very practical ways.

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