Rights

15thFebruary 2024

Children’s Right to Play in Scots Law

15.02.24|Categories: Miscellaneous, Resources|Tags: , , |

Play Scotland report that the Children’s Right to Play was incorporated into Scots law on 16th January 2024. The full provisions will be enacted later in the year UNCRC Incorporation Scotland Act. See their latest report the STATE of PLAY in SCOTLAND 2023, which sets out the vision and current challenges.

18thJuly 2023

Children’s rights to outdoor play, and more, in Scotland.

18.07.23|Categories: Resources|Tags: , |

Play Scotland have shared how Scotland is working to uphold children's right to play. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued recommendations to the UK and Scottish Government following its review of their children’s rights records last month. See this news item. The Committee’s recommendations include that [...]

1stJune 2023

World Environment Day 5 June 2023 – how is your learning for sustainability practice?

01.06.23|Categories: Resources|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Education Scotland is encouraging educators to mark World Environment Day by taking a look at their Learning for Sustainability self-evaluation framework. Closely aligned to 'How Good is Our School 4', it is designed to help schools look inwards, outwards and forwards - a key approach to self-evaluation. It focuses on [...]

26thJuly 2022

Our Rights, Our Planet Online Training

26.07.22|Categories: Training|Tags: , , , , , , |

On 12 July 2022, Articolo12, Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI), Terre des Hommes (TdH) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched “Our Rights, Our Planet”. This offers free training for young people to learn about and stand up for their environmental rights! The training is available online and offline. [...]