Category Archives: ASN Schools

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Recognising and Realising Children’s Rights

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Education Scotland has been commissioned by Aileen Campbell MSP, Minister for Children and Young People, to develop a national professional development resource for adults working with children and young people.

What does the resource aim to do?

The resource aims to develop participants’ knowledge and understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) with the purpose of promoting rights-based values, attitudes, skills and practices among those adults who have a duty of care for children and young people.

What is contained in the resource?

The interactive training resource includes all the relevant materials to deliver a one-day programme. This programme will have the greatest impact when delivered within a single training day, however the materials and the schedule for delivery should be adapted to suit local needs, capacity and contexts.

What will be covered in the training?

The broad components of the training programme include:

  • Welcome and introduction to children’s rights
  • What are rights, and why are they important today?
  • History of children’s rights and the current context
  • Familiarisation with the articles of the UNCRC
  • Reflection and self-evaluation
  • Next steps, implementation and sharing practice
  • Supporting resources and further reading

Visit the RRCR page to download the resources.

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Children’s Parliament

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Children’s Parliament gives children the opportunity to voice their ideas, thoughts and feelings so that their concerns and opinions can be listened to and included in our social and political landscape.

Children’s Parliament gives ideas a voice.
The Children’s Parliament works with children from birth to 14 years old. This also means engaging with their families, schools and communities.
We use the creative arts and have developed a thematic and holistic approach. We develop open and honest relationships with children; valuing their worth
and their views.
We create opportunities for children to feel safe, challenged and trusted.
By offering children the tools with which to develop and communicate their own opinions we also provide adults with a unique, valuable insight into the concerns and hopes of today’s children.
Their passions and concerns are important. Children are experts in their own lives and we can use the information they share with us to help make Scotland a great country to grow up in.

Visit the Children’s Parliament website.

View Children’s Parliament’s ‘Seen+Heard’ brochure.

Email: info@childrensparliament.org.uk | Tel: 0131 558 9030

ASN Schools, Best Interest of the Child, Children & Young People, Curricular Programmes, Early Years, Leaders & Managers, Life, Survival & Development, Non-discrimination, ORGANISATIONS, Other adults working with CYP, Participation, Primary, Protection, Provision, Recog & Realising CYP's Rights, Respecting Views of CYP, Secondary, Teachers

Children’s Rights in Wales

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Huge resource to support local practitioners, policy makers, managers and strategists develop their understanding of children’s rights and how to adopt a children’s rights perspective to their work.

Full training presentations with guidance for CYP, professionals from many multi-agency partners, parents and elected members.

Visit Children’s Rights in Wales.

ASN Schools, Culture, Values & Ethos, Curricular Programmes, Other adults working with CYP, Primary, Provision, Recog & Realising CYP's Rights, Teachers

Primary School Assemblies

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This set of 21 assembly plans focuses on child rights and special days of the year, such as World Refugee Day, International Day of Disabled Persons, and World Health Day. They feature stories from children around the world and include suggestions for pupil participation.

 Visit the Primary School Assemblies page.

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UNCRC

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In 1989, the world’s leaders officially recognised the human rights of all children and young people under 18 by signing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Convention is the basis of all UNICEF’s work. UNICEF is the only organisation working for children recognised by the Convention.

The Convention says that every child has:

  • The right to a childhood (including protection from harm)
  • The right to be educated (including all girls and boys completing primary school)
  • The right to be healthy (including having clean water, nutritious food and medical care)
  • The right to be treated fairly (including changing laws and practices that are unfair on children)
  • The right to be heard (including considering children’s views)
ASN Schools, Children & Young People, Culture, Values & Ethos, Early Years, Leaders & Managers, Other adults working with CYP, Participation, Primary, Recog & Realising CYP's Rights, Respecting Views of CYP, Secondary, Skills & Attitudes, Teachers

Golden Rules of Participation

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The Golden Rules for Participation are a set of principles designed to help anyone working with, and for, children and young people. Their purpose is to remind adults of what participation means from the point of view of children and young people, and to encourage children and young people to think about what they need from adults to support them to participate.

Go to the 7 Golden Rules of Participation