/*! elementor – v3.4.8 – 01-12-2021 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Primary and secondary school children from Clydebank joined the Scottish Government’s Minister for Green Skills, the Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater, and other policy makers, local authority officers, teachers and researchers at a University of Glasgow event to celebrate and amplify children’sContinue reading “Acting Locally and Thinking Globally: COP26 event celebrates collaboration between Scotland and Chile”
Category Archives: Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland
Children’s voices climate change event at the University of Glasgow
/*! elementor – v3.4.8 – 01-12-2021 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Today, the Network for Social and Educational Equity will be joining our colleagues at Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland for an event that brings together pupils from West Dunbartonshire in Scotland with those in Chile. The children, along with their teachers and researchers from theContinue reading “Children’s voices climate change event at the University of Glasgow”
COP26 – A Teacher’s Experience
The Network for Social and Educational Equity and Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland has been working with two schools in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland on a project aimed at ensuring children’s voices on climate change are heard by decision makers at this year’s COP26 summit and beyond. Here, teacher Katie Shearer, who works at St Eunan’s Primary SchoolContinue reading “COP26 – A Teacher’s Experience”
AMPLIFYING CHILDREN’S VOICES
Teachers and researchers from the Network for Social and Educational Equity and Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland are working with primary and secondary age children and young people in Chile and Scotland to ensure their voices are heard by decision makers at this year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November. In the build-up to COP26, Children’sContinue reading “AMPLIFYING CHILDREN’S VOICES”
Children’s voices for climate change event
While young people are the most affected by the ongoing climate crisis, there perspectives are mostly underrepresented in the policy making space. In response, Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) and the Network for Social and Educational Equity has facilitated workshops between schools in Clydebank (St Eunan’s Primary and St Peter the Apostle secondary) and in LuisContinue reading “Children’s voices for climate change event”
Children’s Voices for Climate Change – a research practice collaboration between Scotland and Chile
To commemorate COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties that takes place in Glasgow 31 October to 12 November 2021, the Network for Social and Educational Equity (NSEE) and Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) are working with schools in Scotland and Chile to ensure children and young people’s voices are heard by policymakers. AlmostContinue reading “Children’s Voices for Climate Change – a research practice collaboration between Scotland and Chile”
Scottish Government equity report examines school closure impact
The Scottish Government has published an equity audit that examines the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The audit was undertaken as part of Protecting Scotland, Renewing Scotland: the 2020-21 Programme for Government, and covers material extracted between 23 March and 1 September 2020. While the government recognises that a longer strategy isContinue reading “Scottish Government equity report examines school closure impact”
Child poverty in rural areas
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland has published a report investigating children, young people, rural poverty and social exclusion in Scotland. Written by Jayne Glass from the Rural Policy Centre of Scotland’s Rural College, the report finds that rural poverty accounts for 16 percent of all poverty in Scotland but is often less visible in urban areas andContinue reading “Child poverty in rural areas”
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland – annual report out now
The Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) annual report, which provides an update and overview of the organisation’s work programme as well as what is to come in the next year, is out now. The report was written during the COVID-19 pandemic and, as was the case with many others, the work of the CNS team changedContinue reading “Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland – annual report out now”