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 Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland is supporting a new report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Scotland that calls for urgent action to improve community health services for children and young people.
The Commissioner, Nicola Killean and the children’s commissioners from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are urging Westminster to give every child in the UK the same protection from assault as adults.
Children and Young People's Commissioner welcomes Daniel Johnson MSP's Bill, which introduces legally enforceable guidelines on restraint and seclusion in educational settings, but urges Scottish Government to extend protection to all settings where children are its care..
Children should be empowered so they have the tools and knowledge to access the online world as safely as possible, and decision-makers need to put in place protection for them to be able to do that safely.
Commissioner Nicola Killean calls on the Scottish Government to take action, reinforcing long-standing demands for stronger safeguards to protect children in care of the State.
Children's Commissioner welcomes publication of Fatal Accident Inquiry into deaths of William Lindsay and Katie Allan and urges Scottish Government and other agencies to swiftly enact recommendations.
Six years ago, the Scottish Government promised to issue guidance on restraint and seclusion, to review it after a year, and place it on a statutory footing if it wasn’t working. It is very concerning that it has taken so long just to get to this first step.
We have given evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee at the Scottish Parliament as they considered the Education (Scotland) Bill, which proposes replacing the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) with Qualifications Scotland (QS) and establishing an independent HM Chief Inspector of Education.
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