The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is now incorporated into Scots law and the new Act takes effect from 16th July 2024. This means that all public authorities in Scotland must now act compatibly with the UNCRC requirements or face legal remedy. What do Scottish public bodies – and those acting on their behalf such as third sector organisations – need to know and do in order to stay within the law and to more proactively promote wider cultural change in children's rights?

This conference will take place online. 

Scotland's voluntary sector and the staff and volunteers working within it deliver vitally important services in every Scottish community. However, crisis in funding, capacity and its future are some of the few certainties the sector can currently anticipate. How should charitable organisations, staff and the sector as a whole now be thinking, planning and reacting amid widespread crisis and challenge? How do you navigate a way forward – and what does coherent purpose and success look like – in this context?

This conference will take place online.

Emergency planning, resilience, business continuity and risk reduction are the activities we plan, practice and train for in the hope they will never be needed.  They mitigate the worst when it happens and bring assurance and stability when it does not.  However, the threats presented to normal order are magnified by local, national and international events which can bring instability to our own front door. So how do we plan for the unexpected, ensure that we learn from every opportunity, collaborate to maximise best practice and keep our emergency planning and resilience practitioners, and our responders at every tier, well-resourced and able to prevent and react?

This conference will take place online.