Projects
Children’s Human Rights in Scotland
Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland
We are a founding member of the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland, a collaborative of Scottish organisations working to drive implementation of children’s human rights in Scotland, with local impact and global learning. We work with the Observatory on a number of projects, including:
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We’re working with stakeholders across Scotland to identify and share the enablers and barriers of positive culture change, to help make children’s human rights real on a daily basis.
Scotland has become a world-leader in children’s rights, with recent legislation incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) into Scots law. The energy and momentum driving the incorporation campaign is shifting its focus to implementing children’s rights in practice. Innovative approaches to realising children’s human rights are being trialled across Scotland.
We want to ensure this continued pace of implementation. Our interest is for CRC incorporation to reach the children who are furthest from their rights.
So, we are leading this Observatory project to accelerate the implementation of the UNCRC in Scotland through the lens of culture change enablers in organisations.
We’re working in collaboration with a range of partners on children’s rights and implementation:
Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS)
Strathclyde Law School
We are drawing from the research on culture change developed as part of our Theory of Change for Making Children’s Rights Real in Scotland.
A range of stakeholders across Scotland are helping us to identify and share the enablers and barriers of positive culture change, helping to make children’s human rights real on a daily basis, especially for those children whose rights are most at risk.
Watch this space for our findings later in the year!
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The Observatory works with the Scottish Government, local authorities, health boards and other public bodies to analyse and improve the quality of public bodies’ reporting on children’s rights. Read more here.
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The Observatory hosts a Scotland-wide research network that brings together research expertise with the lived experiences of children and young people and Scottish policy-makers, practitioners and civil society. Learn more here!
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The Observatory, Matter of Focus and Public Health Scotland worked together on a collaborative effort to develop a Theory of Change for the process of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) implementation in Scotland.
Read the report here!
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We worked with the Observatory to conduct a thorough analysis of how emergency laws and procedures around COVID-19 impacted the human rights of children and young people in Scotland.
This was done in the form of an Independent Children’s Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA).
Click to read the Child Rights Impact Assessment!