Publications
Learning Reports & Policy Papers
Our Learning Reports & Policy Papers contribute to an understanding of children and families lived realities, namely perspectives on policy and practice which affect children’s wellbeing, human rights, and ability to reach their full potential.
Learning Reports
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Drawing out key themes from past pandemics can directly advise responses to current and future pandemics, offering prompts to policymakers and services.
This report draws from grey and academic literature on learning from past epidemics (particularly from Ebola, SARS, MERS, cholera); alongside newly published guidance and reports, and informed by emerging concerns, with themes subsequently tested with child and humanitarian experts.
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This Learning Report explores “The Centrality of the Economic Perspectives in Achieving the Well-Being of Children in the COVID-19 Era”
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This report summarises the key policy messages emerging from a public governance evidence review, applied uniquely to the distinct nature of children. It draws on the existing literature – both the academic literature and the applied strategic and policy documents of many governments – and is informed further through interviews with a range of expert government policymakers.
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Policy Papers
Children’s Human Rights in Scotland
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The publication of the Theory of Change for Making Children’s Rights Real in Scotland comes at an important stage in our journey to incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law and to further embed a rights-based approach in our public sector policy-making and practice in Scotland.
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The Summary Paper of the above publication is available to read here!
Children’s Human Rights and Child Poverty
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With a particular focus on research findings about children and families, this briefing highlights considerations towards a comprehensive Scottish policy landscape which delivers children’s rights and tackled child poverty once and for all.
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Working Papers
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The first in the series of Working Papers considers Justice for Children in the Era of Data-Intensive Technologies. It highlights how the rapid emergence and advancement of digital technologies poses new challenges for the realisation of access to justice for children.
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