Do the Right Thing - a progress report on the Scottish Government's response to the 2008 concluding observations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

DescriptionDo the Right Thing - a progress report on our response to the 2008 concluding observations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
ISBN9781780457963
Official Print Publication Date
Website Publication DateMay 11, 2012

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ISBN 978 1 78045 796 3 (Web only publication)
DPPAS 12934

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Contents

Ministerial foreword
Introduction

1 Ongoing monitoring of the UNCRC in Scotland
2 Promoting children's rights in the Scottish Government
3 Promotion and awareness raising of the UNCRC, including training of professionals who work with children
4 Tackling negative perceptions of children and young people
5 Gypsy/Traveller children and young people
6 Advocacy services for children and young people
7 Participation of children and young people in schools
8 Mosquito devices
9 Promoting positive forms of parenting
10 Young carers
11 Improving outcomes for looked after children
12 Children of prisoners
13 Private fostering
14 Disabled children
15 Improve outcomes for teenage parents
16 Support delivery of Curriculum for Excellence health and wellbeing experiences and outcomes
17 Child poverty
18 Play
19 Better support for unaccompanied asylum seeker children
20 Child trafficking and sexual exploitation
21 16 and 17 year olds in the youth justice system

Annex A: 2011 'State of Children's Rights' Report by Together Scotland
Annex B: Mid-Term Report to the UK State Party on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by the UK Children's Commissioners

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