Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms
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These resources support communication and understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement and alleviate children and young people’s nerves about returning to school in the context of COVID-19. The resources are in the form of visuals, which are easy to process and understand for many.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Action for Children

Two toolkits have been created, one for children and young people aged 11-18 years old and one for adults working with them. Each toolkit includes printable activities and ideas to get children and young people writing to express their thoughts and feelings.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
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This podcast shares the latest evidenced-based practice from academics, senior leaders, social workers and experts by experience to improve children’s social care and the outcomes it generates for children and families.

Date: 13th May 2020
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From muscle relaxation to breathing and written exercises, the app offers people a range of techniques for coping with difficult feelings, as well as suggestions for non-screen activities that people can build into their daily lives to help themselves cope.

Date: 7th May 2020
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The 'Wheel of Apps' identifies and categories apps available on an iPad which can be a useful tool for teaching and learning for both primary and secondary aged learners with complex additional support needs.

Date: 7th May 2020
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Child participation gives children the opportunity to express their views, have these views taken seriously and offer the chance to influence decision making. This document provides guidance on how to have meaningful child participation safely and ethically during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Date: 7th May 2020
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The Connecting Scotland initiative aims to support digitally excluded vulnerable people who are on a low income or at extremely high risk of severe illness from COVID-19, and organisations that is currently working with the digitally excluded.

Date: 7th May 2020
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The Talking Change Podcast engages with key organisations and individuals, from subject matter experts and frontline workers, to young people themselves, politicians and law enforcement. This podcast identifies problems that children and young people face today and explains why addressing these problems matter.

Date: 7th May 2020
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Mind Yer Time has been designed by children and young people from Children’s Parliament and the Scottish Youth Parliament to empower other children and young people across Scotland to use screens and social media in healthy ways.

Date: 9th April 2020
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The Children in Scotland Podcast aims to gather and share interesting projects, work and developments from across the sector, engaging key organisations and individuals in timely debate and discussions. So far Children in Scotland have held discussions on the following:

Date: 11th March 2020
Category: General measures of implementation
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Unicef has produced a ten-part podcast series on the future of childhood, including episodes on the UNCRC.

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Respect for the views of the child
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’We Are Here. A Child Participation Toolbox’, offers a practical set of tools to implement meaningful children’s participation and encourage collaboration between generations in a variety of settings.

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Child poverty, Social security and childcare
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The ‘Talk.Act.Change.’ toolkit is designed to get people talking about social rights and the change they would like to see in their local area.

Date: 9th December 2019
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Children's Parliament

The toolkit builds on the learning from the project Children as Human Rights Defenders and it is designed for individuals and organisations who wish to explore the role children and adults can play to defend children’s human rights and what support children need from adults in order to be empowered and protected as human rights defenders.

Date: 9th December 2019
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Nourish Scotland

The 90 second animation explains what the right to food means, and what’s needed to make it real for people in Scotland.

Date: 19th November 2019
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Protection from abuse or neglect
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The resource “Rights! The missing piece to childhood adversity” was designed by young people, to raise awareness of a rights-based approach to tackling childhood adversity.

Date: 19th November 2019
Category: Equal protection from violence, Right to life, survival and development, Protection from abuse or neglect
Author: Police Scotland

The content of this film is aimed at providing supportive information for adult survivors of childhood abuse. The advice can also be considered relevant in circumstances of current child abuse.

Date: 29th October 2019
Category: General measures of implementation, Awareness-raising, Incorporation
Author: Equality and Human Rights Commission

The Human Rights Treaty Tracker is a searchable online tool for civil society organisations, academics, parliamentarians, legal professionals and anyone with an interest in human rights to learn about the UK’s international human rights obligations, and to track how the UK Government is performing against them.

Date: 29th October 2019
Category: Child poverty
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The report looks at the impact that governments have had on poverty in Scotland over the past 20 years and how this evidence can be used to inform policy development for the future.

Date: 7th October 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration

Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) has reviewed and updated a range of fact sheets about the Children’s Hearings System.