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  • Improving Advocacy Support for Children & Young People: Responses to the National Consultation

    Date: 14th August 2012
    Category:
    Author: Scottish Government

    The Scottish Government has published the responses to its consultation on Improving Advocacy for Children and Young People. The consultation's Discussion Paper - introduced in November 2011 - laid out a set of proposed principles and minimum standards to improve the quality, consistency and availability of advocacy support for children and young people.

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  • Children and Young People Bill Engagement Events

    Date: 2nd August 2012
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Scottish Government

    To coincide with the formal public consultation on the proposed Children and Young People Bill, the Scottish Government is undertaking a wide range of stakeholder engagement activity.

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  • Children’s Rights Legislation – Together/Children in Scotland Working Group minutes

    Date: 4th July 2012
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Together

    In May 2012, Together and Children in Scotland joined forces to coordinate a working group on the forthcoming children's rights legislation. The purpose of the group is to look at lobbying and advocacy opportunities around the legislation and help to inform and coordinate activities.

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  • Report Card 10: Measuring child poverty

    Date: 2nd July 2012
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: UNICEF

    The publication of UNICEF's latest Report Card on 29 May led to a flurry of activity. On the day of the report's release, Jackie Baillie MSP tabled a motion calling 'for a clear focus on the poorest children to ensure that they are not placed at a disadvantage as a result of cuts in public spending'.

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  • Homeless, Not Hopeless

    Date: 22nd June 2012
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: Children in Scotland

    There are more homeless children and young people throughout Scotland than most people think. They often need help to become (or remain) successful learners. Some are already receiving valuable assistance within and/or outwith school. But, others don't receive the additional support they want and need -- despite laws and policies that say they should.

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  • Common Core of skills, knowledge & understanding and values for the “children’s workforce” in Scotland

    Date: 22nd June 2012
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
    Author: Scottish Government

    The Common Core describes the skills, knowledge and understanding, and values that everyone should have if they work with children, young people and their families, whether they are paid or unpaid.

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  • The Conversations Project: A Report to the Steering Group of the National Review of Services for Disabled Children and Young People

    Date: 22nd June 2012
    Category: Children with disabilities
    Author: Scottish Government

    The Scottish Government has published a report of the Conversations Project with disabled children and young people, asking about their lives, expectations and aspirations.

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  • Fundamental rights: challenges and achievements in 2011

    Date: 20th June 2012
    Category: General measures of implementation, Refugee and asylum seeking children
    Author: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

    This year's European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights annual report chronicles the positive developments made in 2011 as well as the challenges facing the EU and its Member States in the field of fundamental rights, drawing on objective, reliable and comparable socio-legal data.

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  • New Resource on Homophobic Bullying

    Date: 15th June 2012
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General measures of implementation
    Author: LGBT Youth Scotland

    This new resource on Homophobic Bullying is targeted at all pupils in Scottish Schools as part of the Challenging Homophobia Together Schools Project.

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  • Children and Young people’s Mental Health Indicators: final report

    Date: 15th June 2012
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare
    Author: NHS Health Scotland

    The Children and Young People's Mental Health Indicators provide a means to assess and monitor the mental health of Scotland's children and young people. They also look at the contextual factors surrounding a child or young person's mental health.

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  • Getting it Right for Play Toolkit

    Date: 15th June 2012
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: Play Scotland

    The Getting it Right for Play Toolkit, published by Play Scotland, gives local authorities and community groups evaluation tools to assess the extent to which the outdoor play needs of children and young people are being met.

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  • Legal opinion on incorporation of UNCRC into Scots Law

    Date: 15th June 2012
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: UNICEF

    UNICEF UK has commissioned a legal opinion from Aidan O'Neill QC at Matrix Chambers to explore in detail the ability of the Scottish Government under current devolved arrangements (the Scotland Act 1998) to incorporate (partially or fully) the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law.

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  • Scotland: the best place to bring up children?

    Date: 13th June 2012
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
    Author: Parenting across Scotland

    In this collection entitled 'Scotland: the best place in the world to bring up children?' contributors put forward proposals for what needs to happen to make Scotland the best place in the world to bring up children.

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  • Universal Periodic Review of the UK

    Date: 13th June 2012
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Human Rights Consortium Scotland

    A summary report on the UPR Hearing that took place in Geneva on 24th May and subsequent developments including a link to the UN's draft report.

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  • GUS 6th Annual Conference Report - findings from Year 6

    Date: 13th June 2012
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
    Author: Growing Up in Scotland study

    The report from the sixth Annual GUS Conference is available to download along with a copy of the Minister's speech, the presentation slides from the day and an audio recording of the main presentations.

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  • New guidance to help social workers assess age of young people seeking asylum

    Date: 13th June 2012
    Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
    Author: Scottish Refugee Council

    Age assessment guidance aimed at helping vulnerable young asylum seekers get the right support, has been launched by Scottish Refugee Council.

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  • Equality Law Bulletin

    Date: 4th June 2012
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Equality and Human Rights Commission

    This bi-monthly newsletter will report on decisions on discrimination and human rights law in Scotland and Great Britain as well as developments on the Public Sector Duties.

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  • Counting the Costs 2012

    Date: 1st June 2012
    Category:
    Author: Contact a Family

    Alongside a stark reminder of the harsh financial reality already faced by families caring for a disabled child; the report also shows the level of confusion and concern about the current welfare reform agenda and the impact that it will have.

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  • New report on the early experiences of Primary School

    Date: 31st May 2012
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: Scottish Government

    A new report from the Growing Up in Scotland study provides new information about experiences of starting primary school for children and their parents.

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  • Measuring Child Poverty

    Date: 29th May 2012
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation
    Author: UNICEF

    A new UNICEF report demonstrates that, during the early years of the global economic crisis, the UK did better than many other rich countries in reducing child poverty and protecting children from deprivation. However, UNICEF UK has warned that Government policies to reduce spending may risk more children growing up in poverty.

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