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This page hosts useful websites, resources & guidance relating to understanding and upholding Children's Rights
This page hosts useful websites, resources & guidance relating to understanding and upholding Children's Rights
The Children's Rights Skills and Knowledge Framework is for individual workers who want to build or reflect on their children’s rights knowledge and take a children’s human rights approach to their practice.
It will support training planners, trainers and workforce leads responsible for delivering workforce skills building. It is designed to be used alongside the Training Plan and should be understood first, before you dive into the details of planning training.
It has been co-produced with workers, children, young people and their families.
This is the first available version of the Children's Rights Skills and Knowledge Framework. Scottish Government will keep the Framework under review with a focus on increasing functionality and sharing any newly available resources.
It includes a Learning Journal, to support you, as a practitioner, with your ongoing professional learning and development planning. It is designed to support reflection on practice with children and young people, and may be useful to support discussion with line managers or to refresh your knowledge of children's rights.
Education Scotland have a wide range of links and resources to support us to uphold children's rights in Scotland. There is a whole section on UNCRC professional learning, a children's rights self-evaluation toolkit as well as a wide range of resources to support learning, teaching and understanding across a variety of settings and for Parents and carers.
Useful Websites
Useful Websites
The Improvement Service have created 'A Guide for the Public Sector in Scotland'. Their resource was developed to support those working in public bodies such as local authorities and health boards to learn more about the UNCRC, how to take a children's rights based approach to their work. It should support you to think about how to prepare for and meet the requirements of the new legislation across your organisation.
The law that created the Commissioner’s role says that the Commissioner must:
Promote awareness and understanding of children’s rights.
Involve children and young people in the office’s work.
Make sure laws, policies and practice affecting children and young people’s lives are fair and respect their rights.
Promote and carry out research to progress children’s rights.
Share examples of adults working well to fulfil children’s rights so others can learn from it
Together is an alliance of Scottish children's charities that works to improve the awareness, understanding and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
They do this by:
promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
helping children's organisations to integrate the UNCRC into their work;
monitoring and reporting on the progress made at a Scottish and UK level.
This is the Highland Council google site for Rights Respecting Schools. This is only accessible to Highland Council staff.
Highland One World (HOW) Global Learning Centre is based in Inverness High School and exists to support the development of education for global citizenship in the Highlands and Islands.
Play Scotland's vision is for Scotland to be a playful nation. Their mission is to enable all children and young people in Scotland to have equal opportunities to participate in diverse and quality play experiences that meet their individual need.
Children's Health Scotland inform children and young people, parents and carers of their rights and responsibilities, where to access information and support and what they should expect from health service providers. We empower parents and carers to participate in decisions about the treatment and care of their children.
Established in 1996, the work of the Children's Parliament is dedicated to realising children's human rights in Scotland.
They work in both general and targeted ways. Their targeted programmes involve children who face challenges in their lives and include children who are seldom heard.
Their local, national, and international work supports the development of a children’s rights-based culture in Scotland and ensures that children’s voices are actively engaged in shaping our world.
The work of Children in Scotland has a very strong child’s rights focus. It is underpinned by the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and we are part of Together, an alliance of Scottish children's charities that works to improve the awareness, understanding and implementation of the UNCRC.
Children in Scotland also offer special services (Enquire, Reach and My Rights, My Say) which we have detailed below.
Enquire’s vision is that all children in Scotland are supported, included, and listened to throughout their education. Their role in making this a reality is to offer advice and information – to children, young people, parents, carers and professionals – about children’s rights to additional support for learning.
REACH can help you understand your rights to support with your learning and your rights to be included, listened to and involved in decisions about your education.
Reach is part of Enquire, the Scottish advice service for additional support for learning.
My Rights, My Say supports children in Scotland aged 12-15 with additional support needs to exercise their rights to be involved in decisions about their support in school.
It’s independent, confidential, easy to use, and supports children to speak up about what they need to learn.
Useful Resources
Useful Resources
Let’s Explore Our Rights explains in a gentle, age-appropriate way what rights are and why they are important. It can support practitioners to spark first conversations about human rights with very young children.
Children at Lochardil Primary School in Inverness were involved in creating the book, alongside Highland author Corinna Campbell, and the Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland.
The Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland website has a wide range of resources that can be used to inform children and young people about their rights. The symbols poster can be posted out to you, as can the UNCRC pocket book. There are UNCRC symbols cards, the lets explor our rights book, information about knowing your rights when in custody and lots more. Most resources are available in more than one language. There is even a section with activities, games and challenges.
My Rights to Wellbeing
My Rights to Wellbeing
My Rights to Wellbeing is a universal programme, to support the knowledge and understanding of children’s rights as identified through the UNCRC, but also with a wider focus on wellbeing and the tools created nationally to support GIRFEC.
This programme aims to encourage children to develop their emotional language and promotes an understanding of themselves and their social relationships, both within their families and their wider communities. Sessions focus support on pupils to take ownership of their My World Triangle and their Wellbeing Wheel. Discussion of the Articles within the UNCRC provide an understanding that every child has these rights and provides opportunities, through cooperative
group work, interactive workshops and games for children to link the Articles and the language of Wellbeing, to better support their understanding, engagement and participation in these areas of their development.
Although P6 is recommended, this programme can be adapted and delivered to any age group, to suit local needs.
To discuss further or to arrange training please get in touch with louise.kinnear2@highland.gov.uk
The Children & Young People's Commissioner Scotland has a wide range of really useful resources.
All children should be able to access information about their own rights in their own language and CYPCS have produced this resource in BSL to support young BSL users to explore rights in their first, or preferred language.
This symbols resource is one that is used most often, but they have other key resources available on their website in BSL.
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