December 2020
We submitted Stage 1 evidence on this bill to the Education and Skills Committee at the Scottish Parliament on 9 December 2020.
Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland
July 2020. This independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment is a thorough analysis of how emergency laws and policies around the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the human rights of children and young people in Scotland.
Undertaken by the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland, it is the biggest Children’s Rights Impact Assessment in the world that’s been done on laws and policies passed in response to COVID-19.
It always comes down to money: young people’s views
September 2013
This short report summarises the views of young people interviewed for our 2013 report around cutbacks in services for young people with disabilities.
It always comes down to money
September 2013
A report into the availability and accessibility of publicly-funded services for families with disabled children.
Disabled children and young people’s experiences of using school toilets
March 2014
Findings of a survey of parents and carers of children and young people with a disability or long-term health condition.
Questions focused on parents’ and carers’ awareness of toilet facilities provided within schools and other educational units attended by their children.
School toilets and the experiences of children and young people with a disability
June 2015
This report looks at the range of issues parents of children and young people with a disability or long-term health condition raised when discussing their child’s experiences of school toilets.
UNCRPD draft delivery plan
September 2015
Former Commissioner Tam Baillie responds to the Scottish Government’s Draft Delivery Plan 2016-2020 for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Consultation response: Proposed Disabled Children and Young People (Transitions) (Scotland) Bill
January 2020
A response to a Bill proposed for consideration by the Scottish Parliament.