Date: 28th June 2011
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation, UK 1st periodic review
Author: Save the Children

This short report summarises speakers' presentations and the key issues raised at the Governance Fit For Children seminar held on 28 June 2011 in Edinburgh.

Date: 21st June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Children's Rights Information Network

Briefing on existing complaints procedures available to seek redress for violations of children's rights, including how the newly adopted Optional Protocol under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child differs from existing complaints procedures.

Date: 20th June 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration

Delays in decision making and obtaining a permanent home can mean poorer outcomes for children. SCRA carried out research on the processes of care and permanency planning for looked after children in Scotland to identify areas for improvement.

Date: 14th June 2011
Category: Children with disabilities
Author: World Bank

The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by World Health Organisation and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability.

Date: 2nd June 2011
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Children with disabilities
Author: Whizz-Kidz

Six Whizz-Kidz Ambassadors set out to demystify the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People in a video explaining their own experiences of school and their busy social lives.

Date: 2nd June 2011
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: International Play Association (Scotland)

This seminar explored article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in which children's rights to play, recreation, cultural life and the arts are established.

Date: 1st June 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Equal protection from violence
Author: Scottish Government

This information pack is for women and men (over 16) who have been raped or sexually assaulted.

Date: 1st June 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
Author: Children’s Rights Alliance for England

The publication makes the case for a consistent rights-based approach to all law, policy and practice affecting children, and explores in depth the implications of a children's rights approach to the family and to juvenile justice. It discusses the values and attitudes underpinning a children's rights framework and reports on good practice in a variety of settings.

Date: 25th May 2011
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: United Nations

A report of the Working Group for the establishment of a complaints mechanism for the CRC, presented by the Chairperson at the 17th session of the Human Rights Council.

Date: 24th May 2011
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Immigration Law Practitioners' Association

This guide produced by The Immigration law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) focuses on refugee children, but the principles and practices described apply to all migrant children.

Date: 9th May 2011
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Children's Parliament

The need for better recognition of the child's right to play brought the International Play Association (Scotland) and the Children's Parliament together with children across Scotland to talk about what play means to them and how their experience of play could be better.

Date: 2nd May 2011
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Save the Children

This report is part of an overarching project across five European countries and the EU institution. The aim is to assess how far the general measures of implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have been realised at European, national and community level.

Date: 15th April 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Shelter Scotland

Homelesschildren.org.uk is an online resource which provides expert guidance and advice for education professionals on measures they can take to mitigate the impact of homelessness on a child's schooldays.

Date: 15th April 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Shelter Scotland

This report highlights the fact that most young homeless people (84 per cent) had also run away over night before the age of 16. This is considerably higher than the national rate of running away which is estimated at 11 per cent.

Date: 7th April 2011
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: UNICEF

UNICEF UK calls on all political parties to champion the rights of every child in Scotland by making the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child part of Scots law. This would make the Convention directly applicable in Scottish courts of law and help ensure that the duties the Convention places on wider society to protect children and support their development are better understood.

Date: 4th April 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Children in Scotland

This briefing looks at fetal alcohol harm - the range of birth defects that can result from prenatal exposure to alcohol causing permanent brain and nervous system damage affecting learning, behaviour and life chances.

Date: 4th April 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Children with disabilities
Author: Parenting UK

Parentchannel.tv is a free online service designed to support and encourage parents and carers of children aged 5-19, with a collection of videos addressing a wide range of parenting topics.

Date: 1st April 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Parenting across Scotland

Parenting across Scotland would like Scotland to be the best place for families to bring up their children but at the moment, it's very far from being that. The Parenting across Scotland manifesto calls on the Scottish Government to 'family-proof' their policies, invest in the importance of parenting, ensure that families get the help they need when they need it, ensure that adequate childcare is available and that employers are family friendly.

Date: 1st April 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Young Scot

Young Scot Access All Areas was a three-year inclusion project, which aimed to empower young people from ethnic minority, refugee, asylum seeking and faith groups to influence service provision in their local area, enhance access and promote inclusion.

Date: 1st April 2011
Category: Children with disabilities
Author: For Scotland's Disabled Children

"Setting the Scene" presents a Scotland-wide picture of disabled children - numbers, services, educational provision, strategies, plans and outcomes - and how services are supported and configured.