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#CPYearinReview: G is for Geneva

#CPYearinReview: G is for Geneva

If you’ve been following our #CPYearinReview so far, you will have read about the 12 Human Rights Defenders’ involvement in the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s 2018 Day of General Discussion which took place in Geneva, Switzerland

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#CPYearinReview: F is for Firsts

#CPYearinReview: F is for Firsts

There are so many ways to measure the impact of Children’s Parliament’s work. We endeavour to measure both qualitatively and quantitatively to capture the outcomes of taking a human rights approach to children’s participation and engagement.  However, sometimes we can

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#CPYearinReview: D is for Defenders

Children as Human Rights Defenders

“We need to defend children’s rights so that children can look back and remember a happy childhood with happy memories.” MCP, Perth & Kinross  Through our rights-based, creative practice, Children’s Parliament provides children from diverse backgrounds across Scotland with opportunities

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Children’s Parliament and Eurochild: MCPs go to Croatia!

Children’s Parliament and Eurochild: MCPs go to Croatia!

Hi, we are Elisha, Ben and Mackenzie! We are MCPs, or Members of Children’s Parliament.  At the end of October, we travelled to Opatija, Croatia (it’s here!) with the Scottish Youth Parliament and Together to present at the 2018 Eurochild

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Working with boys and feeling exasperated

Working with boys and feeling exasperated

For all the talk of growing awareness of adverse childhood experiences, of the need for nurturing educational environments, or the realisation of rights and the voice of the child across learning establishments, there isn’t a week goes by when we

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Times of Our Lives: Growing up in Future Scotland

Times of Our Lives: Growing up in Future Scotland

“We have an opportunity now to break the cycle. Working with children and the adults around them in their homes, schools and communities to build trust, mutual respect and therefore stronger, safer, more resilient and cohesive communities that will serve

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Nurturing relationships

Nurturing relationships

In our Seen + Heard Fife programme we work with looked after children, with different care experiences – foster care, kinship care or looked after at home. A common thread running through many of these children’s lives is that they

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National Sitting, The Hub, Edinburgh (Monday 20th November 2017)

National Sitting, The Hub, Edinburgh (Monday 20th November 2017)

To mark Universal Children’s Day and Children’s Parliament’s 21st birthday, 75 children aged 9-13 and 75 adults travelled from across Scotland to meet and discuss the future of Scotland and how it can be a safer, healthier and happier place

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ACES and Children’s Rights

Chelsea growing up in the snow

I grew up in Minnesota (a state that prides itself on being a socially progressive and cultural beacon in the Midwest), surrounded by cornfields, baseball fields, woods and lakes – a landscape that defined many of my childhood experiences. I

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Unjustifiable Assault

Seen + Heard

In some ways, Scotland can be one of the best places in the world to grow up. On a recent camping trip to the Highlands I was basking in the sunshine, exhausted after a day of climbing. I was watching

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