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Commissioner Bruce Adamson and Kevin Browne-Macleod, our Participation Officer, visited Shetland, attending schools, youth clubs and projects over three days in February.
Our roadshow left the mainland and rolled into Shetland in February. We focused on listening to care experienced children and young people, a group whose rights need special care and protection. Commissioner Bruce Adamson and Nicola Vallance-Ross, our Head of Corporate Services, took part in Who Cares? Scotland’s Festival of Care in Lerwick.
After a call by the Commissioner's office, mothers and children seeking asylum have been relocated.
A badge teaching Cubs and Scouts aged eight to 14 about human rights has been introduced by the Commissioner's office and the Scouts.
Children’s rights protections are in grave danger of being eroded by UK Government proposals to reform the Human Rights Act which were confirmed in the Queen’s Speech on 10 May 2022.
This third and final episode focuses on what it's like to come to the end of a Children's Commissioner's fixed term, to have unfinished business, and to hand over to a successor to take on your work.
The second episode of our birthday podcast where Bruce, Tam and Kathleen explore the changes they've been able to make, and the challenges they have faced along the way.
To mark the office’s 18th birthday, the three people to have held the role of Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland come together – for the first time – to
It's our 18th birthday and the celebrations started with a visit to First Adventures Nursery, Linlithgow.