Date: 3rd August 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Early Years Strategy Group

This is the first overarching Early Years Strategy for Fife. The strategy has been developed in line with the national Early Years Framework and links with Fife's Community Plan, Children's Services Plan and to Fife's single outcome agreement.

Date: 1st June 2009
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: ChildLine

A guide for 11-17 year-olds which tells young people how they can recognise neglect, who they can turn to for help and what they can do about it.

Date: 1st April 2009
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Scottish Government

Designed in partnership with COSLA as a helpful tool offering a set of common principles for organisations working with young people.

Date: 1st April 2009
Category: UK 1st periodic review
Author: Scottish Government

Summary report of written consultation responses recieved re Scottish Government action plan in reponse to the UN Committee Concluding Observations.

Date: 1st April 2009
Category: UK 1st periodic review
Author: Scottish Government

A child-friendly version of the UN committee's assessment of progress in implementing the Convention in Scotland, and areas of concern.

Date: 2nd March 2009
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Respect for the views of the child
Author: Children's Parliament

Fifty members of the Children's Parliament (MCPs) gathered to talk abouttheir experiences and aspirations for Scotland's Schools. The childrenworked with artists to create a labyrinth of ideas.

Date: 2nd February 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: House of Commons

Surveys by UNICEF and others of the well-being of children and young people have found that the UK is ranked lower than almost all other industrialised countries. We have previously considered children's rights in the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) - which the UK ratified in 1991 - inquiries into human trafficking, the treatment of asylum seekers and the use of restraint in secure training centres, and our scrutiny of legislation. This Report follows up some of the issues we have raised previously in the light of the latest Concluding Observations of the UN Committee which monitors compliance with the UNCRC.

Date: 1st January 2009
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Children with disabilities
Author: Enable Scotland

Easy-read format for people with learning disabilities who have experienced sexual abuse. It describes what sexual abuse is, how people can protect themselves from abuse and what they can do if they have been abused.

Date: 1st January 2009
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

This guidance provides practical support to local authorities building new schools. It has been prepared following careful consideration of the Scottish Government's National Outcomes and is designed to assist with the delivery of those outcomes and the associated Single Outcome Agreements that have been drawn up by local authorities in association with the Scottish Government.

Date: 1st January 2009
Category: UK 1st periodic review
Author: UK Government

As well as producing their own individual action plans to address the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee, the Scottish, English, Welsh and Northern Ireland administrations worked together to produce a UK-wide action plan, to detail their joint commitments and actions.

Date: 1st January 2009
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scottish Government

A National Child Protection Guidance provides a national framework for agencies and practitioners at local level to draw up and agree on their ways of working to promote the welfare and safety of children and young people.

Date: 1st January 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Fife Children's Services Group

This plan, for 2009/2011, takes account of national and local priorities and consolidates efforts on existing priorities. New priorities include those arising from the national initiative Getting It Right for Every Child and from the inspection of child protection services in Fife in 2009.

Date: 1st January 2009
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Enable Scotland

This booklet was produced by young people of varying levels of ability in an inclusive photography project in East Dunbartonshire and is on the theme of young people's rights in various areas including bullying, advocacy and friendship.

Date: 1st December 2008
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Respect for the views of the child
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

A report about the young people's perceptions and experiences of secure care.

Date: 1st December 2008
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

This publication presents young people's perceptions and experiences of secure care.

Date: 3rd November 2008
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: ChildLine

This report is based on detailed analysis of calls to ChildLine, a free confidential helpline for children and young people in the UK, between April 2007 and March 2008.

Date: 3rd November 2008
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author:

This booklet, designed for parents and carers, offers practical advice and guidance on dealing with bullying behaviour among children and young people.

Date: 22nd September 2008
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Scottish Government

This guide provides an overview of the Getting it right for every child approach and developments so far.

Date: 2nd June 2008
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scottish Government

This delivery plan signals the Scottish Government commitement to get it right for children and young people affected by domestic abuse, their families and communities.

Date: 2nd June 2008
Category: UK 1st periodic review
Author: Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People

Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People (SCCYP) worked with the England, Wales and Northern Ireland's Children's Commissioners to produce a joint report for the UK.