March 2022. A report into human rights breaches due to unsuitable housing for asylum-seeking mothers and their babies in Glasgow.
Scot Youth and Covid 2: Young People’s Participation Through Crisis
July 2021. The Commissioner’s office supported A Place in Childhood (APiC) to work with 25 Young Consultants, exploring their views and experiences of the second lockdown.
This report collects APiC’s findings and highlights the Young Consultants’ 34 Asks to the Scottish Government for meaningful change around Covid.
European Social Charter reporting: Submission to the European Committee on Social Rights
July 2020. This submission to the European Committee of Social Rights aims to inform their review of the UK under thematic group 2: health, social security, and social protection.
Statutory Duties in Secure Accommodation: Unlocking Children’s Rights
June 2021. Report of our latest investigation, which found children in secure accommodation may have been deprived of their liberty without due process of law.
Report: UN Taskforce on the Rights of the Child visits Scotland
September 2015
Report on the visit to Scotland by Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Amal Aldoseri.
UK Fifth Periodic Report: Children’s Commissioners’ recommendations
May 2016
Recommendations of the UK’s Children’s Commissioners on what should change for the UK to keep its human rights promises to children and young people.
Report of the UK Children’s Commissioners on Fifth UK Periodic Report
July 2015
The joint report of the UK’s four Children’s Commissioners on the UK’s fifth periodic report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Promote, Protect, Defend: A report on children and young people as human rights defenders in Scotland
April 2019
We worked with an Action Group of young human rights defenders to create a list of eight recommendations for adults in power in Scotland, which set out how child human rights defenders can be better supported.
No Safe Place – Executive Summary
December 2018
Executive summary of our first formal investigation.
No Safe Place: Restraint and Seclusion in Scotland’s Schools
December 2018
The report of our office’s first investigation, which focused on local authority guidance around restraint and seclusion.