News and stories

Looked After children and young people and rights to education: Accessing the right to Coordinated Support Plans

For Care Experienced Week, we’d like to focus on the barriers preventing both Looked After children and other children with ASN from accessing their right to CSPs in Scotland.

Children and young people defend our human rights— here are eight ways adults can help them do it

International Officer Kara Brown blogs on the eight recommendations made by young Human Rights Defenders in Promote. Protect. Defend, a report published by our office and laid before the Scottish Parliament.

Swimming to the Surface

Eilidh, a Young Adviser and Human Rights Defender, shares her experience of being bullied.

7 Ways to get Better At Taking Young People Seriously

Katrina Lambert of our Human Rights Defenders Action Group outlines key things adults can do to help young citizens bring about real change.

Let’s Talk Young: Let’s Talk About Mental Health – ENOC 2018

Clara Gray, 16, is one of a group of young people from Scotland who created recommendations around mental health to take to Europe’s Commissioners for Children and Young People. Last month, she went to Paris for the annual conference of the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children, and this is how her experience went.

Blog: Children deprived of their liberty and alternatives to detention— my experience of the European Forum on the Rights of the Child

Our Enquiries Officer blogs about her experience at the 11th European Forum on the Rights of the Child.