Together is an alliance of Scottish children’s charities that works to improve the awareness, understanding and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Category Archives: Best Interest of the Child
Recognising and Realising Children’s Rights
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
Global Citizenship
Global citizenship brings together education for citizenship, international education and sustainable development education and recognises the common outcomes and principles of these three areas. All curriculum areas can contribute to developing the skills, attributes and knowledge that will create active global citizens.
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Do The Right Thing
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child provides the principles and values to which we all should aspire. In 2009 we published ‘Do the Right Thing’ – our response to the 2008 concluding observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
This was a clear commitment by the Scottish Government to account for actions to further promote children’s rights. This document reports on the significant progress we have made since then and we will continue to demonstrate the importance we place on rights through future similar reports.
UNCRC: The foundation of Getting It Right For Every Child
Scottish Ministers are committed to promoting the GIRFEC approach and way of working. Legislation is proposed for introduction to parliament this year to ensure that the key elements of the approach have a statutory foundation. The attached paper has been produced with the aim of helping to understand better the relationship with UNCRC and how the application of GIRFEC will progress respect for the rights of each individual child and young person across Scotland.We want children and young people to experience public services that place them at the centre of what they do. Scotland has a proud track record in promoting
the welfare of children and young people. The establishment and development of the children’s hearings system is a clear testimony to that. Extending the new way of working across all services and for all children and young people with a focus on improving wellbeing takes that commitment– and challenges – to a new level. Achieving such change will take time but we have taken some of the first big steps on the journey.
Me + Us
Me + Us engages children in an exploration of what makes them unique and what connects them to others. Though their personal and group investigation children document their cultural identity, heritage and discover the meaning and experience of sectarianism in Scotland’s communities. Children work together to explore how we might make Scotland an inclusive nation; the best place to grow up. Every child produces a portrait and artist statement which reveals to their audience of peers and adults who they are.
For the past few months children in 6 Local Investigation Teams have been working on their Me + Us project. Check out the map below to see where the teams are based. Examples of their work can be seen in the Me + Us GALLERY
At the beginning of Me + Us workshops, the children shared their initial thoughts by interviewing each other for this video.
Me + Us Resource Pack
You are invited to use this pack to facilitate your own Me + Us project. Click on the Arrows to open panels where you can download the different PDF parts of the Resource Pack.
Children’s Rights in Wales
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.
Rights Respecting School Award
The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos. A rights-respecting school not only teaches about children’s rights but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers / adults and pupils, between adults and between pupils.
