Our office has long-called for children and young people to be meaningfully involved in informing the Child Poverty delivery plans. We need to see visible priority given to acting on child poverty including acting on the priorities of children and young people themselves.
Together with children’s charities and anti-poverty organisations, the Commissioner has written to the Scottish Parliament calling for a dedicated committee to hold government to account on ending child poverty.
Commissioner urges for more action on child poverty, after Scottish Government published its Child Poverty Delivery Plan.
We’re pleased that the UK Government has finally committed to end the discriminatory two-child benefit cap.
Today we publish our Annual Report, covering the period from 1 April, 2024, until 31 March, 2025, and Commissioner Nicola Killean’s first full year in the role.
In 2025, it is unacceptable that any child is growing up in shocking levels of poverty, going without basics like food, clothing, heating, safe housing and other essentials.
The Scottish Budget will be published this week, the first since the UNCRC (Incorporation)(Scotland) Act came into force. Children and Young People’s Commissioner, Nicola Killean writes ahead of the Scottish Budget: 2024-2025, outlining the five key things she wants to see within it.
Children and Young People’s Commissioner Nicola Killean has joined leading charities and third sector organisations in calling on the Scottish Government to end school meal debt and hidden hunger.
Children and Young People’s Commissioner, Nicola Killean fully supports a proposal to make sure that children across Scotland have access to well-funded, and high-quality youth work services. Speaking on the launch of the Martin Whitfield MSP’s proposed Youth Work (Scotland Bill), the Children’s Commissioner was clear that youth work is rights work, and it is critical that it is accessible and delivered for all children.
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