Date: 24th July 2017
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Right to life, survival and development
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland (CYPCS)

Máire McCormack, Head of Policy at the Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland office has written a blog about children from low-income families going hungry during the school holidays.

Date: 24th July 2017
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Children's Commissioner for Wales

'The Right Way: A Children's Rights Approach in Wales?' outlines a principled and practical framework for working with children, grounded in the UNCRC, to help public bodies to integrate children's rights into every aspect of decision-making, policy and practice.

Date: 24th July 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Eurodesk

A new publication has been launched to inspire organisations working with young people across Europe.

Date: 24th July 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence, General principles
Author: Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF)

WWSF has launched its 2017 Prevention Kit '19 Days of Activism for Prevention of Violence Against Children and Youth 1-19 November'. The Call to Action is linked with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 Target 16.2, which went into effect as of 2016.

Date: 29th June 2017
Category: Awareness-raising
Author: UNICEF UK

Unicef UK have launched a competition to design a rights-based game Unicef's Child Rights Launchpad that can be played in the classroom, playground, or sports hall.

Date: 31st May 2017
Category: Looked after children
Author:

The Commissioner's office and Scottish Women's Aid have released videos around Power Up/Power Down, a participative project that helped children and young people with lived experience of domestic abuse explore the processes and decisions involved in court-ordered contact.

Date: 31st May 2017
Category: Looked after children
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

The Commissioner's office has worked with Who Cares? Scotland to jointly produce resources to help young people in care, care leavers and the adults who support them.

Date: 2nd May 2017
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Cyrenians Scotland

Cyrenians has become the first organisation to create a digital robot to educate the public about homelessness. Alex has been created after Cyrenians carried out research that uncovered 15% of Scots believe young people are homeless out of personal choice.

Date: 2nd May 2017
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Children's Parliament

What does a rights-based approach to bullying look like? Children's Parliament has been exploring this with children across Edinburgh.

Date: 14th April 2017
Category: Mental health, Non-discrimination
Author: Mental Welfare Commission

A drive to improve mental health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people has begun with the launch of a new guide by the Mental Welfare Commission.

Date: 14th April 2017
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: SCRA

The 'Getting papers for a Children's Hearing for the first time' leaflet explains to young people who have turned 12 years old, that because of their age, by law, whenever a future hearing is scheduled for them, they will receive their own set of Panel papers.

Date: 14th April 2017
Category: Health and health services, Mental health
Author: Wendy Woolfson and Josie Vallely

The Out of Harm Tool Kit is a resource for family, teachers and other professionals who have contact with a young person they are worried about. It was developed by Wendy Woolfson and Josie Vallely with young people from Penumbra's North Ayrshire Self Harm Project with experience of self-harm.

Date: 14th April 2017
Category: Wales-specific monitoring and reporting
Author: Children's Commissioner for Wales

The Children's Commissioner for Wales has published a practical guide to help all public bodies adopt a Children's Rights Approach.

Date: 3rd April 2017
Category: Looked after children
Author: Child Rights International Network (CRIN)

CRIN have released a new guide detailing the legal and practical tools available to get redress for violations of children's rights in care institutions care in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Caucasus.

Date: 3rd April 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: The Care Inspectorate

Find out about how the new resource from the Care Inspectorate helps inspectors to support all early learning and childcare services to promote early language skills.

Date: 3rd April 2017
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
Author: Euractiv

Whatever decisions the EU makes about its future at the Rome summit and beyond, it should recognise the improvements to the lives of children as one if its great achievements and make this a foundation for future action, writes Jana Hainsworth for Euractiv.

Date: 27th March 2017
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Together

Earlier this year, Together held four different events to find out more about children's rights and to decide what needs to be done to make Scotland a better place for children.

Date: 22nd March 2017
Category: General measures of implementation, Incorporation
Author: Growing Up in Scotland study

The data from Birth Cohort 1 Sweeps 1-7 is now available from the UK Data Service under Special Licence arrangements. Data from Birth Cohort 2 Sweep 1 is also available, with Sweep 2 to follow soon.

Date: 22nd March 2017
Category: General principles
Author: NSPCC

The NSPCC's ChildLine service has launched an app that is the first to provide counselling to young people in the UK directly through their smartphone.

Date: 7th March 2017
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Electoral Commission

Schools, colleges and youth centres have been offered help in registering pupils for the May council elections, the first in which 16 and 17 year olds will be eligible to vote.