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- Sweet 16? One year on – is life any sweeter?
- Sweet 16? summary report
- Sweet 16? The age of leaving care in Scotland
- Sweet 16? Young person’s report
- Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-2026
- Terms of Reference: Investigation
- The administration of medicines in schools: report on FOI responses
- The Cross-border Placements (Effect of Deprivation of Liberty Orders) (Scotland) Regulations 2022
- The Early Years Framework: scoping its impact
- The Future of Secure Care
- The Nationality and Borders Bill: The Commissioner’s position on age assessment proposals
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- UK Children’s Commissioners’ midterm report to the UK State Party on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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- Wellbeing and Sustainability (Scotland) Bill
- Wellbeing and Sustainable Development Bill
- Why we really must listen to children
- YAG submission – new Optional Protocol on education.
- Young Advisers’ Submission to Universal Periodic Review
- Your Rights, Our Plan
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- Scot Youth and Covid 2: Young People’s Participation Through Crisis
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- Submission to United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: Children’s Rights and Alternative Care
- Joint Letter: Call on the UK government to end armed forces recruitment of children
- Statutory Duties in Secure Accommodation: Unlocking Children’s Rights
- Scottish Parliament Education Debate: Joint briefing from the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) and the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS)
- Children’s Commissioners for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales: Letter to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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- Consultation on the revised National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland
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- Activity: Writing rights poems
- Learning about children’s rights
- The power to change things: Lightning bolt activity
- Rights word search 1
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- Submission to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Protecting and promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms in responding to pandemics and other health emergencies
- MSP Briefing: UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill – Stage 3
- Submission to Education and Skills Committee: Session with Young Advisers
- MSP Briefing: UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill – Stage 2
- Consultation response: Raising the Age of Referral to the Principal Reporter
- MSP Briefing: UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill – Stage 1
- MSP Briefing: Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
- UK Commissioners’ Letter to Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
- Disabled Children (Transitions) (Scotland) Bill
- High-Level Political Forum input: Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Right to Education and School Closures
- Report of the Children’s Commissioners of the United Kingdom of Great Britain to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: Examination of the Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- “Are We There Yet?” Our Rights, Our Say
- “Are We There Yet?” Our Rights, Our Say: Summary Report
- CRC Report Annex: Children’s Rights in the UK in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
- CRC Reporting: 30 Issues Infographic
- Exam cancellations: Letter to Deputy First Minister (16th December)
- Stage 1 Evidence to the Justice Committee: Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill
- Submission to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Draft General Comment 25: Children’s rights in relation to the digital environment
- MSP Briefing: Public Petitions Committee Debate- Improving Youth Football in Scotland
- Short report: Children in conflict with the law
- SQA Exam diet 2020 and the Priestly Review
- Annual Report 2019-20
- Older Children In Conflict With the Law
- Evidence to Equality and Human Rights Committee: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill
- Submission to Covid-19 Committee- The Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Early Expiry of Provisions) Regulations 2020: The Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Amendment of Expiry Dates) Regulations 2020
- Letter to MSPs: Parliamentary Debate on Residential Outdoor Centres
- Response to Priestly Review: A Rapid Review of National Qualifications experience 2020
- Position: Reopening Schools in Scotland
- Exams 2020: Correspondence with SQA
- MSP Briefing: Children (Scotland) Bill (Stage 3)
- Exams 2020: Letter to Deputy First Minister (17th August)
- UK Commissioners’ letter to Universities UK
- Exams 2020: Letter to Deputy First Minister (7 August 2020)
- Exams 2020: Letter to SQA
- Evidence to House of Lords Covid-19 Committee
- Position: Face coverings in schools
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland
- Children’s version: Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to COVID-19 in Scotland
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 1
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 2
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 3
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 4
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 5
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 6
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 7
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 8
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 9
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 10
- Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment on the Response to Covid-19 in Scotland: Appendix 11
- First briefing to Police Scotland Independent Advisory Group
- Rapid Child Rights Impact Assessment: 2020 Exam Cancellations
- Evidence to Health and Sport Committee: Historic Abuse in Football
- Consultation response: Scottish Sentencing Guidelines
- Parliamentary Evidence: The Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Early Expiry of Provisions) Regulations 2020/The Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Amendment of Expiry Dates) Regulations 2020
- UNCRC Symbols Cards
- Return to School Planning: A human rights briefing paper for the Education Recovery Group and other education decision makers
- Improving youth football in Scotland
- MSP Briefing: Children (Scotland) Bill Stage 2
- Joint Letter to Justice Committee: Human rights concerns around measures in prisons and Young Offenders’ Institutions
- MSP Briefing: Disclosure (Scotland) Bill Stage 3 Debate
- Evidence to Education and Skills Committee on school closures, vulnerable children and exam cancellations
- MSP Briefing: Children (Scotland) Bill (Stage 1)
- MSP Briefing: Coronavirus (Scotland) (No. 2) Bill (Stage 2)
- MSP Briefing: Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Bill (Stage 1)
- Response: Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into COVID-19
- Joint Letter to Supermarkets from the Commissioner and Parenting Organisations
- Joint letter: Equality and Human Rights and the Coronavirus in Scotland
- ENOC Open Letter: Emergency situation of migrant children on Greek border
- ENOC Bureau statement: Children’s rights in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak
- MSP Briefing: Coronavirus Bill Legislative Consent Memorandum
- MSP Briefing: Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill
- Strategic Plan 2020-24
- Children and Young People’s Annual Report 2019-20
- Children and Young People’s Annual Report 2018/19
- Children and Young People’s Annual Report 2017/18: Our story
- Children and young people’s annual report 2016-17
- Audio clip: Children and young people’s annual report 2015-16— What are the 7 Golden Rules?
- Audio clip: Children and young people’s report 2015-16— The age of criminal responsibility
- Audio clip: Reporting in Geneva for Children and young’s report 2015-16— Reporting in Geneva
- Children and young people’s report 2015-16
- Easy read: Children’s Annual Report 2015-16
- Text only, Children and young people’s report 2014 – 2015
- Video – Children and young people’s report 2013-14
- Children and young people’s report 2013-14 (BSL signed)
- Text version: Children and young people’s annual report 2013-14
- Children and young people’s annual report 2011-12
- Video – Children and young people’s annual report 2011-12
- Children and young people’s annual report 2009-10
- Consultation Response: Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill
- Briefing: Incorporation in Context
- Revised Strategic Plan 2018-20
- Annual Report 2018-2019
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- Annual Report 2016-17
- Easy read: Annual report 2015-16
- Annual Report 2015-16
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- Consultation response: Early learning and childcare statutory guidance
- It always comes down to money: young people’s views
- Young people’s version: How participation in school helps you do well
- Youth football in Scotland: Audio
- Youth football in Scotland
- Young Person’s UK Commissioners’ report
- Feeling okay? The views of young carers
- The great school toilet debate
- Ipsos MORI survey report on school toilets
- Children and young people’s views on participation and principles for practice
- Child contact proceedings for children affected by domestic abuse
- The administration of medicines and health care procedures in schools
- No barriers to medication at school – the administration of medicines and healthcare procedures in schools
- It always comes down to money
- Toilets unblocked
- The treatment of the views of children in private law child contact disputes where there is a history of domestic abuse
- Looking at bullying and cyberbullying
- Disabled children and young people’s experiences of using school toilets
- Children’s right to play, culture and arts
- Learning Lessons
- How young people’s participation in school supports achievement and attainment
- School toilets and the experiences of children and young people with a disability
- Young people and the Scottish Parliament
- Approaches to engagement with children 0-3 years
- Evaluation of the 7 Golden Rules for Participation
- Equally protected?
- Coping is difficult, but I feel proud
- Young People’s Views on Physical Punishment
- BSL Plan
- Gaelic UNCRC Pocketbook
- BSL Simple UNCRC
- Punjabi Simple UNCRC
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- 7 Golden Rules in Vietnamese
- 7 Golden Rules in Arabic
- 7 Golden Rules in Scots Gaelic
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- Golden Rules Symbols conversation cards
- Golden Rules Symbols cards
- 7 Golden Rules for use with young people
- 7 Golden Rules for use with children
- Legal brief: No Recourse to Public Funds
- UNCRC Poster
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- Scots Gaelic Simple UNCRC
- UNCRC Symbols poster
- UK Children’s Commissioners’ response to the replies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the List of Issues of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- UK Fifth Periodic Report: Children’s Commissioners’ recommendations
- Young People’s Version: Report of the UK Children’s Commissioners on Fifth UK Periodic Report
- Report of the UK Children’s Commissioners on Fifth UK Periodic Report
- Super Listener poster
- Super Listener postcard
- MSP Briefing: Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill
- The treatment of the views of children in private law child contact disputes where there is a history of domestic abuse
- Comments on the proposed British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill
- Response to Legal Assistance in Scotland: Fit for the 21st Century
- Consultation on draft statutory guidance for part 9 (corporate parenting) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act, 2014
- Evidence to the Justice Committee on the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill
- Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Bill: MSP Briefing
- Evidence to the JCHR on UK compliance with the UNCRC
- Response to Petition PE1548: national guidance on restraint and seclusion in schools
- Evidence on the Education (Scotland) Bill
- British Sign Language Bill (Stage 3): MSP Briefing
- United Kingdom Children’s Commissioners’ response to the Home Office consultation “Reforming support for failed asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants”
- Response to pregnancy and parenthood in young people strategy
- Response to inquiry on the Human Rights Act
- Response to consultation on the Police Act 1997 and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 Remedial Order 2015
- Digital learning and teaching strategy for Scotland
- Education (Scotland) Bill (Stage 2): MSP Briefing
- Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill (Stage 3): MSP Briefing
- MSP Briefing: Education (Scotland) Bill (Stage 3)
- UNCRPD draft delivery plan
- Consultation response: A criminal offence of domestic abuse
- Consultation response: Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Time for Compliance) regulations 2016
- Consultation response on Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 statutory guidance part 3: children’s services planning
- Consultation response on Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 non-statutory guidance part 1: children’s rights duties
- Report to UN: The application of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in Scotland
- Response: Review of Scottish strategic police priorities
- Parliamentary Evidence: Scotland’s relationship with the EU
- Consultation response: Police powers to search children and young people for alcohol
- UN Submission: Children’s exposure to environmental toxicants
- Response to Children’s Commissioner for England: Incorporating Digital Rights into the UNCRC
- Response to Mental health in Scotland: a 10-year vision
- Consultation response: A child poverty bill for Scotland
- Consultation response: A new future for social security
- Comment on Petition PE1603/N: Ensuring greater scrutiny, guidance and consultation on armed forces visits to schools in Scotland
- Response to Standards in Scottish Schools etc Act 2000: draft statutory guidance
- Response to Empowering teachers, parents and communities to achieve excellence and equity in education: a governance review
- Consultation response: Sexual portrayal of under-18s in advertising
- Consultation response: New National Health and Social Care Standards
- Parliamentary evidence: Scotland-wide guidelines for Personal and Social Education
- Consultation response: Guidance on religious observance
- Response: Inquiry into hunger among children during the school holidays
- MSP briefing: Petition PE1548
- Response to PE1635: Review of Section 11 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Parliamentary evidence: Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill (Stage 1)
- Position statement: Mosquito devices
- Consultation response: Healthcare needs in schools
- Consultation response: Proposed Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill
- Letter to John Swinney MSP on prejudice based bullying
- MSP briefing: Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill (Stage 1)
- Parliamentary evidence: Children and Young People (Information Sharing)(Scotland) Bill
- Consultation response: Supporting Children’s Learning Code of Practice
- Response: Review of Part 1 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Living is more important than just surviving
- Holiday Hunger Programmes in Scotland
- MSP briefing: Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill (Stage 3)
- Consultation response: Evidence and procedure review
- MSP briefing: Prejudice-based bullying debate
- Consultation response: Proposed Draft Police Act 1997/Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 Remedial Order 2018
- Consultation response: Proposed Period Poverty Bill
- Consultation response: Extending Children’s Rights
- Universal Periodic Review: Opportunities for Parliamentary involvement
- Consultation response: Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2004
- Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Protecting and empowering children as human rights defenders
- Response to Empowering schools: A consultation on the provisions of the Education (Scotland) Bill
- Evidence to the Equalities and Human Rights Committee: Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Bill
- Consultation response: Protection of Vulnerable Groups and the Disclosure of Criminal Information
- Consultation response: Review of Part 1 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and creation of a family justice modernisation strategy
- Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
- Evidence to the Equalities and Human Rights Committee: Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill
- Response: Protecting Children Consultation
- Equalities and Human Rights Committee Call for Evidence: Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Bill
- Response: Nutritional requirements for food and drink in schools
- Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Draft revised General Comment No. 10 on children’s rights in juvenile justice
- Consultation response: Protective orders for people at risk of domestic abuse
- MSP Briefing: International standard for the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
- Submission to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Children’s rights in the digital environment
- MSP Briefing: Children (Equal Protection from Assault)(Scotland) Bill (Stage 1)
- MSP Briefing: Children (Equal Protection from Assault)(Scotland) Bill (Stage 2)
- Position Paper: Incorporation of the UNCRC
- Consultation response: Clinical pathway for children and young people who have disclosed sexual abuse
- Response to Public Petitions Committee Petition PE01713: Ban the use of Mosquito devices in Scotland
- Consultation response: Incorporation of the UNCRC
- Flushed With Success Press Release
- Consultation response: Scottish Sentencing Council consultation on the sentencing process
- Evidence to the Local Government and Communities Committee: Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill
- Evidence to Justice Committee: Call for Views on the Children (Scotland) Bill
- Evidence to Education and Skills Committee: Disclosure (Scotland) Bill
- Consultation response: Proposed Disabled Children and Young People (Transitions) (Scotland) Bill
- Draft Children’s Rights (Scotland) Bill
- Consultation response: Youth Justice Standards
- Children (Equal Protection from Assault)(Scotland) Bill (Stage 3): MSP Briefing
- Children as Human Rights Defenders Toolkit
- UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (Child Friendly Version)
- Promote, Protect, Defend: A report on children and young people as human rights defenders in Scotland
- Terms of reference: Secure accommodation investigation
- Summary of our Investigation: Restraint and seclusion in Scotland’s schools
- Restraint and Seclusion response: West Lothian
- Restraint and Seclusion response: West Dunbartonshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Stirling
- Restraint and Seclusion response: South Lanarkshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: South Ayrshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Shetland
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Scottish Borders
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Renfrewshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Perth and Kinross
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Orkney
- Restraint and Seclusion response: North Lanarkshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: North Ayrshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Moray
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Midlothian
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Inverclyde
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Highland
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Glasgow City
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Fife
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Falkirk
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Edinburgh City
- Restraint and Seclusion response: East Renfrewshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: East Lothian
- Restraint and Seclusion response: East Dunbartonshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: East Ayrshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Dundee City
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Dumfries and Galloway
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Clackmannanshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Angus
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Argyll and Bute
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Aberdeenshire
- Restraint and Seclusion response: Aberdeen City
- No Safe Place: Terms of Reference
- No Safe Place – Executive Summary
- No Safe Place: Restraint and Seclusion in Scotland’s Schools
- UNCRC Pocketbook
- ‘No Time to Waste’ … to Empower and Protect Children and Young People’s Rights to Climate Justice
- ‘Help us feel young again’, children and teens tell the Scottish Government
- “Study Support sessions with e-Sgoil were great – it was a very flexible way of learning”
- “The Scottish Government can do more to loosen the grip of poverty”— joint call from Commissioner and Poverty Commission Chair
- “Young people are here and they’re talking truth to people in power without being intimidated.”
- “A new baseline for how all adults in Scotland must respect and promote rights”—a children’s social worker reflects on UNCRC Incorporation
- “A significant legal step”— Commissioner welcomes ruling for sibling participation in children’s hearings
- “Despite my overwhelming nervousness, I did it. And I did it well.” Young Adviser Lewis on speaking to an audience about children’s rights
- “Drive and demand change”— Commissioner travels to Highland Youth Parliament
- “Hear Our Stories”, say young unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees
- “I am looking at 80 young people today who have the power to defend the rights of children,” Commissioner tells Midlothian pupils
- “Information should always be interrogated rather than just consumed”― Commissioner Bruce Adamson supports #SaferInternetDay
- “Listen to youngsters to make the world a better place,” says Young Adviser Sophie
- “Not cut out for prison”: Depriving children of their childhood
- “We owe it to children not only listen, but to act”— Commissioner welcomes conclusions of Independent Care Review
- Just launched: A new guide to our legal powers
- Parliament party banished the nerves
- Putting rights into law: a tale of prevarication and delay
- 7 Ways to get Better At Taking Young People Seriously
- A new emergency Bill around Coronavirus is before the Scottish Parliament today. Here are two amendments that would protect young people’s rights
- A new report is calling for major changes to the youth justice system in Scotland
- A study underpinning raising Scotland’s age of criminal responsibility has won a prestigious award
- A time of great opportunity and effective legal challenge
- Acting Children’s Commissioner on exam results: Be proud of all your achievements
- Address human rights violations relating to exams, Commissioner tells Education Secretary
- Age assessments: Why they must be rights-respecting
- All children have the right to a view: Our Briefing to MSPs on the Children (Scotland) Bill
- All Scouts up to 18 in Scotland can now Explore new human rights badge
- Amendments to UNCRC Bill must not create further delay
- An amendment to the Planning Bill means children will be listened to less
- Annual Rhodri Morgan Memorial Lecture
- Apply to be our new Children and Young People’s Commissioner
- Are children in Scotland unlawfully deprived of their liberty? On #HumanRightsDay we’re launching an investigation to find out
- Asylum-seeking mums and babies finally moved to more suitable housing
- Asylum-seeking mums’ and babies’ human rights breached in unsuitable housing unit
- Barriers leave Care Experienced children struggling to access right to education, says report
- BINOCC Statement: Impact of drugs and the sale of drugs on social media
- Birthday podcasts: Beginnings
- Birthday podcasts: Making it happen
- Birthday podcasts: The Handover
- Blog: Children deprived of their liberty and alternatives to detention— my experience of the European Forum on the Rights of the Child
- Briefing: Detention of children— the human rights issues
- Bullying is a violation of children’s rights
- Call to end school meal debt
- Campaigners hail historic vote for equal protection for children
- Can you help young children tell the UN about their world?
- Care experienced children must be supported to claim their rights, says Children’s Commissioner
- CELCIS Care Leavers Conference speech
- Celebrate everything young people have achieved, says Children’s Commissioner
- Celebrate International Day of Happiness with Children’s Commissioner at special online assembly
- Celebrate World Children’s Day with the Commissioner at an interactive assembly with BSL interpretation
- Celebrate You: Join Us for #BeFriendly Friday with Children’s Health Scotland
- Championing rights from a new address: We’ve moved to Bridgeside House
- Changing the tune – Commissioner hosts young people, Dame Evelyn Glennie, and experts to improve education system
- Children and families must be urgently supported during any further school closures, says Children’s Commissioner
- Children and young people defend our human rights— here are eight ways adults can help them do it
- Children and young people deserve our support in the coronavirus pandemic. This is what Scotland must do to protect their rights
- Children and young people help Commissioner plan ahead
- Children and young people take to Parliament to defend what’s right
- Children are people too— their rights should be in law
- Children as young as four in Scouting in Scotland can complete human rights badge
- Children can help Commissioner plan for the future at online assemblies
- Children can shake up education in the Shoogle Lab with our new activities
- Children from Forces families denied full right to education, says new report
- Children in Gaza must be protected at all costs and their rights restored.
- Children increasingly know their rights – Many are not experiencing them.
- Children join Commissioner’s online assembly on discrimination
- Children must be kept safe in no-deal Brexit Britain, UK Commissioners say
- Children need protection from energy disconnection
- Children share their essentials on Human Rights Day
- Children’s Commissioner backs calls for more scrutiny of child poverty progress
- Children’s Commissioner: Ahead of exam results, remember there is no wrong path
- Children’s Commissioners warn poverty persists and children will bear the burden
- Children’s powerful films on education highlight urgent need for change
- Children’s voices and #BeFriendly fun at Robin House celebrating Scottish Children’s Health Week
- Children’s Commissioner and football campaigners launch competition law complaints against SFA and SPFL
- Children’s Commissioner launches popular rights resource in Gaelic
- Children’s Commissioner marks one year of rights in law with young carers
- Children’s Commissioner on child poverty: “Progress has been made but it’s too slow.”
- Children’s Commissioner slams Scottish Government’s ‘broken promise to children’ on free school meals
- Children’s Commissioner urges education leaders to support children taking part in climate strikes
- Children’s Commissioner urges Ofgem to ban compulsory installations of pre-payment meters, warning of dire consequences for children
- Children’s Commissioner warns energy regulator: “Your actions can help struggling families or push them further into poverty”
- Children’s Commissioner warns Scottish Government is in breach of children’s human rights on the use of restraint in schools
- Children’s Commissioner warns UK Government to take more robust action with energy suppliers
- Children’s Commissioner welcomes Parliament’s commitment to back free period products Bill
- Children’s Commissioner: Education leaders need to listen to young people and change exam pressure
- Children’s Commissioner: Pressure of exam results day reminds us why education system must change
- Children’s Commissioner: SQA and Scottish Government must apologise to young people and restore fairness to the grading system
- Children’s Commissioner: There’s a lot to learn from new report into care experienced children and education
- Children’s Commissioners in devolved nations appeal to UK Government to end ‘discriminatory’ two-child limit on benefits
- Children’s Commissioners in devolved nations urge UK Government to stop violating children’s rights to an adequate standard of living
- Children’s Commissioners in devolved nations urge UK Government to stop violating children’s rights to an adequate standard of living
- Children’s Mental Health Week: Our work on a big issue
- Children’s right to education in a pandemic: Our evidence to the Education and Skills Committee
- Children’s rights in the digital world: the UK’s opportunity to create ground breaking legislation
- Climate change is a human rights issue: Commissioner supports children on #ClimateStrike
- Clock is ticking but there’s still time to do the right thing by young people and their assessments
- Closing Speech: Annual Day on the Rights of the Child at #HRC46
- Coimiseanair na Cloinne a’ cur goireas mòr-chòrdte mu chòraichean air bhog sa Ghàidhlig
- Come to our assembly on World Children’s Day – where YOUR opinion matters!
- Commissioner and Together present Ministers with draft Children’s Rights (Scotland) Bill
- Commissioner asks Scottish Government to be clear on when child rights become Scots law
- Commissioner becomes Champion of smoke-free spaces for children
- Commissioner brings children’s rights to life for Book Week Scotland
- Commissioner Bruce is a good sport at judo club
- Commissioner calls on Prime Minister to strengthen children’s legal protections
- Commissioner celebrates the power of listening on World Children’s Day with thousands at assembly
- Commissioner commends Justice Secretary’s assurance on Crown immunity
- Commissioner condemns Scottish Government as it once again fails to prioritise children’s rights
- Commissioner echoes civil society call for emergency cash boost to families
- Commissioner highlights support programme for headteachers with positive impact on children’s rights
- Commissioner Nicola Killean responds to Scottish Government guidance on ‘physical intervention in schools’
- Commissioner praises service offering “second chance at education”
- Commissioner repeats call for direct payments to families as extent of UK food insecurity revealed
- Commissioner responds to Scottish Government statement on child poverty
- Commissioner responds to UK Supreme Court judgment today on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill
- Commissioner shares progress with children on education work
- Commissioner sits on Independent Advisory Group on Police Scotland’s use of emergency coronavirus powers
- Commissioner strongly opposes medical age assessment of child refugees
- Commissioner supports call for urgent action on child poverty
- Commissioner supports MSP’s Bill on restraint and seclusion
- Commissioner supports proposal for law to ensure youth work provision
- Commissioner supports urgent action for children deprived of liberty
- Commissioner tells UK conference: “We need statutory guidance on restraint and seclusion in all settings”
- Commissioner to give evidence on restraint bill to Scottish Parliament
- Commissioner urges action on failures for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
- Commissioner urges Scottish Government to hear from young carers about what support they need during global pandemic
- Commissioner urges Scottish Government to implement unified legal framework on restraint and seclusion
- Commissioner urges UK Government to end immigration detention of children
- Commissioner welcomes broad political support for equal protection as Member’s Bill lodged in Parliament
- Commissioner welcomes Scottish Government commitment to full and direct UNCRC incorporation
- Commissioner writes to MSPs on UNCRC incorporation
- Commissioner: Children and young people must be priority as Scotland opens up again
- Commissioner: Children are being let down by education system
- Commissioner: children in care of the State need legal protection from physical restraint and seclusion
- Commissioner: Education reform’s glacial pace and wrong focus fails children
- Commissioner: Mental Health Taskforce recommendations would bring about necessary change
- Commissioner: SQA must “urgently communicate” alternative assessment for 2021 Highers/Advanced Highers
- Commissioner: Stop and search research highlights need for human rights-based approach
- Commissioner: UK and Scottish Governments must do more to address child poverty
- Commissioner: We need urgent action on UNCRC incorporation, not just words
- Commissioner’s investigation finds worrying data gaps in police use of force against children
- Commissioner’s position on proposed Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill
- Commissioner’s statement on Scottish Government response to independent mental health review
- Commissioner’s farewell message to Scotland’s children and young people: “Thank you all for being so amazing.”
- Commissioner’s five key points for child rights-based Scottish Budget
- Commissioner’s investigation finds at-risk children may have been detained unlawfully
- Commissioner’s judicial review prompts commitment from Scottish Government on Tribunal Rules
- Commissioner’s office raises human rights concerns over impact of hotel quarantine on children
- Commissioner’s online assembly is child’s play!
- Commissioner’s speech to UN Human Rights Council: The Rights of the Child and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Commissioner’s Statement: Response to Ministerial Statement on SQA Exam Results 2020
- Commissioner’s statement: UK Government refers UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill to Supreme Court
- Coronavirus has sent us into a spiral. Urgent improvements are needed to support children’s mental health
- Coronavirus is an education emergency for Scotland. Children and young people must be involved in how we tackle it
- Covid amplifying children’s disadvantages across UK, say UK Children’s Commissioners
- Defending your human #Right2Food— Scotland’s young people take their food fight to our Parliament
- Don’t punish children for taking part in climate action, urges Children’s Commissioner
- Don’t punish children for taking part in climate action, urges Children’s Commissioner
- Drawing our rights: 6 pictures from children at Grampian Women’s Aid
- Education decisions will have lifelong impacts, says Children’s Commissioner
- ENOC Open Letter: Emergency situation for migrant children trapped in camps at the Greek border
- ENYA 2021: Young people speaking up across Europe
- ENYA 2023: The role of Children’s Rights Institutions (CRIs) in the protection and promotion of children’s rights
- ENYA: Young people in Scotland bringing their voices to Europe
- European children’s rights institutions express deep concern over U.S child detention policy
- European Convention on Human Rights turns 75
- European Network of Ombudspersons for Children Statement: Children’s rights in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak
- Every care experienced child should be able to have contact with siblings— we must make sure they can do so
- Exams results day: Commissioner says be proud and good luck for your next chapter
- Explainer: UK Government letter around UNCRC Incorporation Bill
- Feedback and accountability are the focus in Commissioner’s second Shoogle Lab
- Football legend Rose and young players unite to tackle discrimination in new film
- Former UN Special Representative on Violence against Children welcomes equal protection in Scotland
- Four more UN treaties planned for Scots law as final UNCRC Incorporation debate imminent
- Full, direct, and urgent: Three key words for incorporating the UNCRC
- Future decisions to prosecute children must meet UNCRC Act standards
- Get involved: Help us plan for the future
- Government plans to deliver on child poverty must reflect what children and young people tell us
- Governments are failing to protect children’s rights, say Children’s Commissioners – in joint report
- Governments must step up to protect children’s rights, warns United Nations
- Healthy diets “increasingly unaffordable” for 220,000 of Scotland’s children, says new research
- Helping us work for you: Young advisors lay our revised Strategic Plan
- Here we Cro! Rowan and Saif going on international rights adventure
- Holyrood must act now to protect children’s rights
- Housing children in hotels violates human rights and is “dangerous, exacerbates trauma, and can damage health”, says Children’s Commissioner
- How should Scotland’s care and justice system be improved for children and young people? A new enquiry aims to find out
- Human rights are under threat: Why we must protect them
- Human rights concerns for children in detention: Convener of Justice Committee writes to Cabinet Secretary
- In Scotland, Internationally, at home: Jonathan blogs on his experience as a #YoungAdviser
- Incorporation is not just a legal process— it’s a way to take action on poverty
- International Day of Education highlights need to put children at the heart of reform
- Is incorporation of the UNCRC still worth it? Yes it is.
- It’s our 18th Birthday!
- It’s our birthday and the party’s started
- It’s two years since children’s rights were enshrined in law – we’re using new powers to push for change
- Join our assembly to make children’s rights your goal!
- Join us at the frontline of children’s rights and make a difference – we are recruiting a solicitor
- Joint statement from UK Children’s Commissioners to tackle root causes of child poverty
- Justice system must be centred around children’s rights – otherwise lives are at risk
- Lack of access to youth work services threatens to leave young people in Scotland without vital support.
- Learning at home for the first time? Our young adviser Kaydence shares her top learning resources
- Learning at home with the Commissioner
- Learning at home with the Commissioner: Activity 2
- Learning at home with the Commissioner: Activity 3
- Learning at home with the Commissioner: Activity 4
- Let’s Explore Oor Richts Nominated for Scots Bairns Book o the Year!
- Let’s Talk Young: Let’s Talk About Mental Health – ENOC 2018
- Listen: Science experts answer young people’s coronavirus questions
- Looked After children and young people and rights to education: Accessing the right to Coordinated Support Plans
- Made with children and young people, and for you: Our new website is built to help
- Media release: Scotland’s largest teaching union calls for national guidance on restraint and seclusion
- Meet 11-year-olds Hannah and Cameron— Global Ambassadors to the United Nations
- Meet the child climate change campaigners putting rights in action from Ullapool to Newton Mearns
- Meet the new Children and Young People’s Commissioner
- Mental health investment needs to be targeted so it can make a difference
- Moving your body is good for your mind
- MSP Briefing: SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee Debate
- MSP debate should focus on education system reform, says Children’s Commissioner
- Musselburgh football club’s goal is delivering children’s rights
- National Child Protection Guidance review must be comprehensive
- Nearly a quarter of children in Scotland will spend this Christmas in poverty. Putting their rights into Scots law is the way to bring radical change
- New FAQ children asked for: Face masks and the environment
- New FAQ for young people on extra support from school
- New FAQ: Wearing a face covering at school
- New film showcases Young Advisors’ work to improve education in Scotland
- New law on rights makes government accountable to children
- New report highlights gaps in children’s healthcare across Scotland
- New report: Older children in conflict with the law in Scotland
- New research finds poor progress on supporting young people’s mental health
- New toolkit helps children act as human rights defenders
- Not enough evidence to show social media ban will protect children’s rights, says Commissioner
- Now recruiting! – Become a Young Advisor to the Commissioner
- On air: Young Advisors on BBC radio talking about mental health investigation
- On Human Rights Day, 16-year-old Jodi blogs on the lessons we can learn from 2020
- On our way to Mallaig: Visiting Lady Lovat Primary School
- Our 2019/20 Annual Report covers a huge year for children’s human rights in Scotland
- Our 2020/21 Annual Report covers children’s human rights in the midst of a pandemic
- Our 2021/22 Annual Report: A momentous year for children’s human rights in Scotland
- Our 2022/23 Annual Report: Our last with Commissioner Bruce Adamson
- Our annual report for 2017-18 covers our office’s journey
- Our Annual Report is published – and marks an incredibly exciting year
- Our BSL Plan is launched today – to protect and promote the rights of young BSL users
- Our commitments to children: How are Scotland and the UK doing?
- Our evidence to Scottish Parliament: “Children and young people want to see fundamental change in education”
- Our human rights in a digital world: Beccie’s experience at the European Network of Young Advisers
- Our Plan 2024-28 is launched today – and it has children and young people at its heart
- Our response to ‘Scotland’s Commissioner Landscape: A Strategic Approach’
- Our rights planning is in full swing as children and young people tell us their views
- Over to you: Young people tell our roadshow about living in poverty, their health, and education.
- Parenting Across Scotland speech: Parents, Families and the UNCRC
- Parliamentary Briefing: Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill
- Peace and Unity Conference speech
- Play your part for children’s rights at our next assembly!
- Police must allow young people to protest peacefully at COP-26, says Children’s Commissioner
- Police use of force on children investigated by Children’s Commissioner
- Position Statement: Covid restrictions on students
- Position statement: Removal of face coverings in classrooms from 28 February 2022
- Poster power marks 30 years of the UNCRC!
- Poverty is a human rights issue for children and young people in Scotland. These are steps that must be taken to address it
- Promote, Protect, Defend: Young human rights defenders demand those in power support them
- Promoting equality and respect for all: Commissioner welcomes LGBTI positive education
- Proposed new law to protect children from harmful restraint is much needed
- Raise age of criminal responsibility to 16, says independent expert panel on youth justice
- Reform must go well beyond education agencies
- Release of our new Strategic Plan
- Report on children and young people’s mental health echoes young people’s voices
- Restraint and seclusion are still real issues in Scotland’s schools― but there’s now a chance that this can change
- Restraint and Seclusion in Scotland’s schools: Commissioner publishes first investigation report
- Restraint and Seclusion: Scottish Government response to our Investigation and our reply
- Results day this year will be more stressful than ever before. It’s not too late to make sure learners aren’t disadvantaged
- Rights matter. We matter. Don’t lose hope― a 90-second speech for Human Rights Day
- Rights of children overlooked during coronavirus emergency
- Rights, Cake and a Birthday Party to remember: Our Young People’s Human Rights Gathering 2019
- Robert’s round-up: “Our participation at the United Nations was real – we weren’t just there to tick a box.”
- Safer Internet Day 2024
- Safer Internet Day 2025: Protecting yourself and others from scams online
- Safer Internet Day 2026: AI brings opportunities but rights protections are crucial
- School counselling in holidays crucial for children’s mental health, says Commissioner’s new report
- Schools, youth clubs and projects. The participation roadshow tours Shetland
- Scotland is consulting on incorporating the UNCRC. This is the most important thing we can do to protect children’s rights
- Scotland is hosting a youth-led conference of children’s commissioners across Europe
- Scotland’s largest teaching union calls for national guidance on restraint and seclusion
- Scotland’s age of criminal responsibility is rising to 12. Now, it needs to go higher than the “absolute minimum” acceptable
- Scotland’s children and young people help UN grill governments on children’s rights
- Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner challenges Ofgem on price rise that’s forcing more families into poverty
- Scotland’s making progress for care experienced people. Here are three ways we need to go further
- Scottish equality and human rights bodies join together in call for inquiry into implications of Covid-19
- Scottish equality and human rights bodies welcome inquiry into implications of Covid-19
- Scottish Government amends quarantine regulations for children after our office raises human rights concerns
- Scottish Government heeds calls to protect children from unlawful restraint and seclusion in schools
- Scottish Government must show ‘real leadership’ to stop UK Government’s attack on human rights
- Scottish rights statute set to end thirty year campaign
- Scottish rights statute set to mark end of thirty-year campaign
- Scouts Scotland and Children’s Commissioner launch new human rights badge
- Scouts Scotland and Commissioner’s office to launch new rights badge
- Seeking clarity on new restrictions around students returning home
- Speaking out on climate: Do you think your rights are protected?
- Speaking up for #HumanRightsDefenders— Parliaments host a DGD Hub
- Sports hub scores a winner for children’s rights
- Spreading joy – thousands of children join Commissioner’s happiness assembly
- Statement for the New Zealand Symposium
- Statement on Educational Disruption
- Statement on HMIPS Inspection Report into YOI Polmont
- Statement on the Equality and Human Rights Committee Report on Human Rights and the Scottish Parliament
- Statement on Trussell Trust figures showing an 62% increase in food parcels given to children in Scotland in April
- Statement on UN Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Expert’s visit to Scotland
- Statement: Acting Commissioner supports calls for child footballers’ rights to be protected by law
- Statement: Alternative care for children
- Statement: Auditor General for Scotland and Accounts Commission briefing report
- STATEMENT: Bruce Adamson welcomes nomination of Nicola Killean as next Children’s Commissioner
- Statement: Call for urgent action on children who are deprived of their liberty
- Statement: Child Protection and School Reopening
- Statement: Children and Young People’s Commissioner responds to Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee report on Improving Youth Football
- Statement: Children’s Commissioner celebrates Restraint and Seclusion Bill passing
- Statement: Children’s Commissioner reacts to UK Government announcement on social media
- Statement: Children’s Commissioner responds to UK Government scrapping two-child benefit cap
- Statement: Children’s Commissioners unite to call for ban on legal assault of children in UK
- Statement: Commissioner calls on Scottish Government to prioritise rolling out universal free schools meals.
- Statement: Commissioner concerned about “lack of urgency” surrounding UNCRC incorporation as office turns 18
- Statement: Commissioner condemns racist abuse of children
- Statement: Commissioner encourages ‘last to close and first to open’ approach to schools in the pandemic
- Statement: Commissioner intervenes in hotel accommodation for pregnant asylum seekers
- Statement: Commissioner on access to water in schools
- Statement: Commissioner on CMO advice to vaccinate 12 to 15 year olds
- Statement: Commissioner on the impact of COVID-19 on the right to education
- Statement: Commissioner on the proposed Covid-19 inquiry
- Statement: Commissioner on UNCRC incorporation announcement by Scottish Government
- Statement: Commissioner raises concerns with Scottish Government about rights impact of Health and Wellbeing Survey
- Statement: Commissioner reacts to MSPs’ vote on UNCRC incorporation
- Statement: Commissioner responds to a new report on cross-border secure care placements
- Statement: Commissioner responds to Audit Scotland report on additional support for learning
- Statement: Commissioner responds to Fatal Accident Inquiry findings into the deaths of William Lindsay and Katie Allan
- Statement: Commissioner responds to judgment made by the UK Supreme Court today on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill.
- Statement: Commissioner responds to new sentencing guidelines
- Statement: Commissioner responds to report on care at Skye House
- Statement: Commissioner responds to Supreme Court decision on Rwanda plan
- Statement: Commissioner responds to the latest update by Scottish Government on restraint and seclusion
- Statement: Commissioner responds to UK Government decision not to abolish two-child benefit cap
- Statement: Commissioner says children’s rights are in grave danger due to Uk Government proposals
- Statement: Commissioner signs joint letter demanding Scottish Government doubles child bridging payments
- Statement: Commissioner supports Bill on restraint and seclusion
- Statement: Commissioner urges Scottish and UK Governments to remove immunity for Scottish Ministers
- Statement: Commissioner’s office launches new Strategic Plan
- Statement: Commissioner’s response to report on care at Melville Unit
- Statement: Communication on Covid protection measures and vaccinations
- Statement: Concerns around SQA 2021 Appeals Process Consultation
- Statement: Court of Session ruling on the Children’s Hearings System and ECHR
- Statement: Cross-border placements in secure accommodation
- Statement: Deprivation of Liberty of Under-18s in Police Custody
- Statement: Digital exclusion’s impact on online learning
- Statement: Equal protection from assault for children
- Statement: Exam results and appeals process
- Statement: Exam results and return to school
- Statement: Food insecurity
- Statement: Human Rights Act reform will erode children’s rights protections.
- Statement: Human Rights Concerns around Unsuitable Mother-Baby Unit Accommodation
- Statement: Impact of climate change on children’s rights
- Statement: Impact of Covid-19 on Disabled Children
- Statement: Impact of Covid-19 on waiting times for mental health services
- Statement: Impact of Covid-19 on Youth Work
- Statement: It’s a year since the Committee on the Rights of the Child warned of the pandemic’s grave effects. Now, we’ve seen them come to pass
- Statement: Marking issues undermine children’s rights
- Statement: Minimum age of criminal responsibility
- Statement: New rights guide for children in custody
- Statement: Numbers of children who have died whilst in care of the State concerning
- Statement: Ofgem must do more to protect children’s rights from impact of forced pre-payment meters and energy disconnection
- Statement: Police stop and search of children figures
- Statement: Response to CMA view on youth football investigation
- Statement: Rights concerns around unaccompanied children in quarantine
- Statement: Rule of Six and Covid-19
- Statement: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Commissioners call on Governments to address cost-of-living
- Statement: Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland Children’s Commissioners react to UNICEF report on poverty
- Statement: Scottish Government announces 2021 exam cancellations
- Statement: Searches of children by police
- Statement: Swift action needed by Scottish Government to ensure Assessment Process is rights-compliant
- Statement: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-2026
- Statement: The importance of improving legal support for children in conflict with the law
- Statement: The Scottish Government and the SQA must respond to young people urgently
- Statement: Trafficked children detained in Young Offenders Institutions
- Statement: UK Compliance with UN Convention Against Torture
- Statement: Universal Periodic Review
- Statement: Updated position on vaccination
- Statement: Urgent call for statutory guidance on child restraint and seclusion
- Statement: Vaccination of under 18s
- Statement: Vaccination offer to children aged five to 11
- Statement: Value children as rights-holders in digital spaces
- Statement: We note youth football concessions but there is more to be done
- Statement: We welcome Scottish Government’s commitment to new guidance on restraint and seclusion
- Statement: Welcoming the Scottish Government’s commitment to incorporation of the UNCRC
- Statement: Young people describe alternative assessment pressure
- Stopping child trafficking: what UK and Scottish governments must do now
- Study guidance, supply teachers, and support for children who can’t go to school – the wide-ranging work of e-Sgoil
- Supermarkets urged not to challenge families with children when out shopping for essentials
- Swimming to the Surface
- Teenagers urged to “raise your voice” to advise Children’s Commissioner
- The 31st article on the 31st Playday: UK Commissioners celebrate the right to play
- The challenges you face, the vision for your future: Commissioner speaks to Perth and Kinross young people
- The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says Scotland must take decisive steps to end child poverty. We agree.
- The UNCRC is being incorporated into Scots law. This is how it’s going to make a difference
- The UNCRC turns 30 today— there’s a lot to celebrate, but Scotland’s running out of time to incorporate it
- Third Shoogle Lab held: Children and Commissioner focus on additional support needs in education
- Thousands of children gather at Commissioner’s climate rights assembly
- Three significant steps for children’s rights in the Children (Scotland) Bill
- Today’s Programme for Government fails to address systemic problems in education, warns Children’s Commissioner
- Too many care experienced children are not being supported to thrive in education.
- Two Scottish teenagers are youngest ever to address UN Committee Against Torture
- UK and Scottish Parliaments must challenge Illegal Migration Bill, warns Children’s Commissioner
- UK Government’s mini-budget fails to immediately help children and families in poverty
- UK’s Children’s Commissioners say systemic disadvantages must be addressed as report shows nearly a quarter of Scotland’s children in poverty
- UNCRC Bill passes Stage 2
- UNCRC Incorporation must be full, direct and urgent: Our response to Scottish Government consultation
- UNCRC incorporation, new legal powers, meaningful participation: Our Annual Report covers a special year for children’s rights
- UNCRC incorporation: today marks a new era of children’s rights
- Unsure about how to involve children in decision-making? This new guide is for you
- Vulnerable children don’t always have human rights respected, warns Commissioner following new report
- Want to make a difference by becoming a Young Advisor to the Commissioner? (applications now closed)
- We have new legal powers after UNCRC incorporation: our Q&A explains all
- We need to give children a role in how we react to the pandemic
- We pride ourselves on rights but we are failing children
- We’ll celebrate rights telling 7-word stories
- We’re going the extra mile to meet children and young people
- We’re meeting some of Europe’s most prominent human rights defenders. What do you think we should ask them?
- We’re thinking about Children’s Mental Health Week
- Webinar: Interactive discussion on children’s access to climate justice
- Welcome to our office: Gina Wilson, Head of Strategy
- What needs to change around mental health in Scotland? Young people bring their views to Barcelona
- What to do if your school isn’t giving you access to fresh water
- Whatever our age, #OurRightsAreHumanRights— 5 universal rights for Human Rights Day
- When did 12 become the age at which we stopped caring about children?
- When the news seems scary, you still have power
- Who Cares? Scotland’s Festival of Care
- Young Adviser Beth marks International Day Of Persons With Disabilities
- Young Adviser Chloe vlogs for the International Day of Charity
- Young Adviser Lewis marks World Children’s Day
- Young Advisor Elsie’s blog marks International Day of Education
- Young Advisor Robert addresses United Nations in Geneva
- Young Advisor Robert: “I hope our recommendation in education report becomes reality.”
- Young Advisor Saif heads to Romania on key children’s rights work
- Young Advisor Sam marks Children’s Mental Health Week
- Young Advisors give views on how to improve school inspections
- Young Advisors share education views with the UN
- Young Advisors tell Ofcom about digital safety
- Young Advisors work with European peers on children’s rights in Croatia
- Young children explore their richts in Scots with new book
- Young children explore their rights in Gaelic with new book
- Young human rights defenders call for more support, protection and recognition of their fight for rights
- Young human rights defenders on climate strike
- Young people can join forces with the Children’s Commissioner to defend human rights (applications now closed)
- Young people empowering rural communities: Commissioner speaks at international conference in Dumfries
- Young people need much more than Scottish Government’s ‘tentative steps’ to improve education, urges Children’s Commissioner
- Younger children hit all the rights notes
- Youngest children explore their rights with Commissioner’s new book.
- Youth work is rights work, and it needs to be properly resourced, says Children’s Commissioner
- Article 1 – Everyone under 18 has rights
- Article 10 – I have the right to see my parents if they live in another country
- Article 11 – I have the right not to be taken out of the country illegally
- Article 12 – I have the right to be listened to and taken seriously.
- Article 13 – I have the right to find out and share information.
- Article 14
- Article 15
- Article 16 – I have the right to keep some things private
- Article 17 – Children should be able to access information they can understand.
- Article 18 – I have the right to support from both parents, if possible.
- Article 19 – I have the right to be protected from being hurt or badly treated
- Article 2 – All children have these rights no matter what their differences are
- Article 20
- Article 21 – I have the right to have the best care if I am adopted
- Article 22 – If I am a refugee, I have the same rights as children born in that country
- Article 23 – If I have a disability, I have the right to special care and education.
- Article 24 – I have the right to be as healthy as possible.
- Article 25 – If I am not living with my family, people should keep checking I am safe and happy
- Article 26 – If my family need it, they should get money to help bring me up.
- Article 27 – I have the right to have a proper home, food and clothing.
- Article 28 – I have the right to an education.
- Article 29 – I have the right to an education which develops my personality, talents and abilities.
- Article 3 – Adults must do what’s best for me.
- Article 30 – I have a right to speak my own language and to follow my family’s way of life.
- Article 31- I have a right to rest, relax and play.
- Article 32
- Article 33
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- Article 35
- Article 36 – I have the right not to be used by adults in ways that harm me
- Article 37
- Article 38
- Article 39 – I have the right to help to get better if I have been hurt or badly treated.
- Article 4 – Governments must make sure that children’s rights are protected.
- Article 40
- Article 41
- Article 42 – Everyone should know about children’s rights.
- Article 5
- Article 6 – Children have the right to life.
- Article 7 – I have a right to a name and to belong to a country
- Article 8 – I have a right to an identity
- Article 9