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Publication - Advice and guidance

Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill 2025: CRWIA

Published
1 May 2025
From
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, +1 more … Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise
Directorate
Education Reform Directorate, +1 more … Children and Families Directorate
Topic
Children and families, Education, Equality and rights, +2 more … International, Law and order
ISBN
9781836915720

This document is a point in time assessment of the likely effects of the child rights and wellbeing impact assessment (CRWIA) for the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill on the rights and wellbeing of children and young people.

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Footnotes

1 Scholes, S. C. (2024). Religious and moral education in Scottish non-denominational primary schools: charting curriculum change through school handbooks. British Journal of Religious Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2024.2409150

2 Lundy, Laura. "Family Values in the Classroom? Reconciling Parental Wishes and Children's Rights in State Schools." International Journal of Law, Policy & the Family, vol. 19, no. 3, 2005, doi:10.1093/lawfam/ebi027

3 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cee5bd0687a1500015b5a9f/t/67ea9147b1067a745aae3cfe/1743425866830/Truth+About+Youth+Survey+2025+-+FINAL.pdf

4 https://www.togetherscotland.org.uk/media/3800/socrr2024_final.pdf

Contact

Email: ROandRME@gov.scot

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