We were delighted to work in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law at the University of Strathclyde (CSHRL) to explore the role and impact of human rights law in specific areas of legal and public policy practice, in Scotland and internationally, with a particular focus on children’s human rights.

Click here to read more about the CSHRL’s Royal Society of Edinburgh Funded Workshop Series: ‘Integrated Implementation of Scotland’s New Human Rights Framework’

We worked in collaboration with a number of international key partners to deliver three COVID projects, so that children have what they need to reach their potential in the COVID Era.

See more here!

We are working with the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland on a number of projects, with past projects including:

Theory of Change: Making Children’s Rights Real in Scotland

The Observatory, Matter of Focus and Public Health Scotland 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!

Independent Child Rights Impact Assessment on Response to COVID

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!

Working in partnership with the One Ocean Hub, an international programme of research for sustainable development, we supported the Working Group on Children’s Rights & a Healthy Ocean to promote fair and inclusive decision-making for a healthy ocean whereby people and the planet can flourish.

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In March 2022, we hosted a Special Continuing Professional Development Course on Children’s Human Rights.

This course was led by Visiting Professor Ann Skelton, in partnership with Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights), the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland, and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law at the University of Strathclyde.

With thanks to the Observatory of Children’s Human Rights Scotland for their generous support from the Impact Acceleration Grant from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant awarded to the University of Edinburgh (grant reference ES/T50189X/1)

We worked in partnership with The Poverty Allianceand the University of Strathclyde's Fraser of Allander Institute, with funding from The Robertson Trust, as part of a partnership project to end low-paid and insecure work for families.

Serving the Future worked with hospitality employers and related public services, as well as with people working in the hospitality sector, to identify and implement meaningful change so that paid employment can provide families with protection against poverty.

We joined this partnership project to affirm the impact of poverty on children, particularly considering the link between child poverty and family income, and the proportion of families experiencing poverty who are in paid employment.

See the project page here!

Emerging from a public governance evidence review, and applied uniquely to the distinct nature of children, we worked on a Whole-of-Government Approach to Advance Child Well-Being.

The Approach draws on the existing literature – both academic and the applied strategic and policy documents of many governments – and is informed further through interviews with a range of expert government policymakers to present the primary elements of a whole-of-government and whole-of-nation approach with and for children, and future generations.

Read our Learning Report here!