Date: 24th May 2010
Category: Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: World Wide Web Consortium

Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? Be careful not to leave out information for some people in your audience. For example, if you say 'you can read it on the slide', you are probably excluding people who cannot see the slide.

Date: 3rd May 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Article 12

What is it like to live on the fringes of mainstream society and face discrimination on a daily basis? This report by Article 12 in Scotland's Young Gypsy/Travellers' Lives Project, is launched to raise awareness of the lack of cultural specific provision, support and opportunity available to young Gypsy/Travellers and the need for key decision makers and the 'settled' community to 'think inclusion'.

Date: 3rd May 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Enquire

This year's Enquire 2010 Annual Conference theme was the importance of the role families play as learning partners, looking at how children, parents, carers and the wider community can be more effectively involved and engaged in the education of children with additional support needs.

Date: 2nd April 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Fife Voluntary Sector Children’s Forum

Fife is the first Local Authority to develop a Children's Rights Strategy and Action Plan. This was done in partnership with children and young people involving Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People - Tam Baillie - who came to Fife to consult with children.

Date: 1st April 2010
Category: Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Accessible Information Forum

This guide will tell you more about what Easy Read means, give you some top tips on how to do it and provide links to other useful publications which will give you more detailed information. The guide also lists some organisations who can produce your documents in an easy read format.

Date: 1st April 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General measures of implementation
Author: Highland Children’s Forum

A report on a consultation with children and families about the new Getting it Right for Every Child approach asking how well listened to a involved children and families felt in the Child's Plan.

Date: 31st March 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Aberdeenshire Council

A guide to meetings for looked after children was created following the 'Tell It Like It Is Conference' in March 2010 in Inverurie.

Date: 8th March 2010
Category: UK 1st periodic review
Author: British Academy

A record of a discussion on the Proposals for a British Bill of Rights chaired by Professor Jonathan Wolff.

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures, UK 1st periodic review
Author: Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People

Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People has created five 'rights workshops' with creative extras to help children and young people understand more about their rights.

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

A Baseline Report of the action research project in Angus to inform the development of Getting it right for every child and the work of the ADP/CPC to address the needs of Children Affected by Parental Substance Misuse (CAPSM).

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Respect for the views of the child
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

The findings of a small pilot study to explore the experiences of children and young people who have had a family member sent to prison.

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

This guidance has been launched to help local authorities ensure that their consultation with children and young people is meaningful, credible and commands the respect of children and young people, their parents/carers and the wider community.

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Children's Parliament

Lothian and Borders Police are currently developing their Youth Strategy for 2010-2013 and asked the Children's Parliament to bring together children from the policing area to give them an opportunity to contribute their knowledge and ideas. The Children's Parliament approached eight schools to represent the diversity of the five local authorities in the area. Participating children were aged 8 to 14 years old.

Date: 1st February 2010
Category: Policies & procedures, Respect for the views of the child
Author: Children's Parliament

The Scottish Government Children's Hearings Reforms Team asked the Children's Parliament to speak with children who had been to a Children's Hearing to find out what that was like and what could be improved.

Date: 4th January 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: ChildLine in Partnerships

A pack for teachers working with young people who are not accessing mainstream education. It can also be used in informal educative settings such as youth clubs. This pack aims to raise awareness of bullying and help students to recognise that friends can be a good form of support.

Date: 4th January 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

This report looks at the extent to which children's issues have been addressed and priortised in Single Outcome Agreements for 2009-10. The review finds that there has been some improvement in relation to the treatment of children's issues since the first round of SOAs.

Date: 4th January 2010
Category:
Author: Save the Children

This is a research to help better understand how poverty affects children and their families, and what needs to change to end child poverty in Scotland for good.

Date: 1st January 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Right to life, survival and development, Children in situations of exploitation
Author: World Vision UK

A Children of Conflict website prepared by the BBC World Service reporters who visited war zones on several continents to investigate what is happening to children.

Date: 1st January 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Respect for the views of the child
Author: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Not Just a Phase provides information to ensure the safe, meaningful and ethical participation of children and young people within the delivery of quality child health services and practically demonstrates how we can contribute towards creating a culture of participation.

Date: 1st January 2010
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: National Coalition (Germany)

Appraisal on art. 3 CRC from Professor Ralph Alexander Lorz, that was lately published by the German Child Rights Coalition, after the withdrawal of the Reservations to the CRC by the German Government.