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Children’s Rights in a 3rd Sector Context

#ForEveryChild Ceri Hunter

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights – Programme Manager

Session aims:

• To increase awareness and understanding of the Child

Rights and Participation Team within Scottish Government

• To increase knowledge and understanding of Children’s

Rights and

• To understand how the Child Rights and Wellbeing

Impact Assessment could be applied within 3rd Sector Organisations

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights – Programme Manager

• Working co-productively with children, young people and

stakeholders to develop a 3 year children’s rights awareness raising campaign

• Advice on Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment

(CRWIA)

• Delivering on the Ministerial duty to promote public

awareness and understanding of the rights of children under Part 1 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Icebreaker

Introduce yourself to the table

• Name, role and organisation
• What brought you here today
• ‘How does your organisation promote

children’s rights?’

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

• Children’s Rights and Reporting
• Inclusion and participation of disabled children and

young people in national policy’

• Sponsorship of national children and young people

information and participation organisations’

• Participation of children and young people in policy

making’

• Children’s Rights – awareness raising and child rights

and wellbeing impact assessments

Children’s Rights and Participation Team

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Cabinet meeting with Children and Young People FMQT Next Generation Young People’s Disabled Forum

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

• Enables children and young people

to lead discussions and to inform the government’s agenda over the coming year.

• Children

and young people are represented by members from the Children’s Parliament and Scottish Youth Parliament

• The Cabinet meeting is now firmly

an annual event, proving to be a real

• pportunity

to engage with government at the highest level

Annual Cabinet meeting with Children and Young People

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

• First ever FMQT for young
• People took place in September

2018

• Provided a platform for young

people to have their views heard and acted upon

• Attended by over 100 young people

and watched by over 80,000 people

• Second event was held on Tuesday

23rd April

• The event can be viewed in

broadcast on the YouthLink Scotland Facebook page and the Children in Scotland Youtube channel

FMQT Next Generation

#FMQTNextGeneration

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

• Some emergent themes

included; employment, education, transitions and accessibility.

• Satellite forums from other

locations, such as Dumfries and

• Inverness are held in

conjunction with the main forum, to ensure the forum is as geographically diverse as possible.

• Launched Supporting

Disabled Children, Young People and their Families at end of April 2019

Young People’s Disabled Forum

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

SG Report and Action Plan

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Incorporation

We will incorporate the principles of the UNCRC into Scots law.

• Consultation now live
• Open from 22nd May to 14th

August 2019

• Engagement Events will take

place with children, young people and stakeholders during this time

• https://consult.gov.scot/children-

and-families/uncrc/

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Impact Assessment

We will evaluate the Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (CRWIA) process and further support and promote its use.

• An independent

consultant will be commissioned to evaluate policy/legislation, which has an accompanying CRWIA, to determine the impact on children and young people.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

STRATEGIC APPROACH TO PARTICIPATION

We will develop a strategic approach to children and young people’s participation, as part of the YoYP legacy. Our aim is to mainstream the participation of children and young people in decision-making across Scottish society.

• Working in partnership with our stakeholders, and

importantly with children and young people to develop 4 Theme groups  Research – Already started  Access/Digital  Resources  Strategic

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Raising Awareness

We will develop and deliver through co-production, an ambitious programme to raise awareness and understanding of children's rights across all sectors of society in Scotland.

• Resource mapping survey currently open
• 5 #Rightscafe Events held in Glasgow, Edinburgh,

Stirling, Dundee and Inverness

• Co-production contract in development with the following

requirements:  50% of Ch & YP from Seldom Heard Groups  50% have not participated in a national development programme before  Age range 3 – 18yrs

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Raising Awareness

Education Scotland:

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

30th Anniversary of the UNCRC

• #ForEveryChild
• 20th November – World Children’s Day
• More under-18s claim their rights and are empowered to

make change

• More 18+ citizens advocate for child rights
• UN Member States make a fresh global pledge to

children to fully implement the CRC

• Regional bodies, national and local governments make

fresh commitments to realise the CRC, through concrete policy action & investments in children

• More civil society & private sector partners recognise

their capacity to influence child rights through partnerships and core practices

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Activity

• 4Ps and Wellbeing Indicators
• Group Discussion

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Networking Opportunity

• Children’s Rights Quiz
• Discussion points flipcharts
• Pre-course postcards

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

How many UNCRC articles are there?

• 52
• 54
• 45
• 12

Question 1 of 10

The UNCRC has 54 different clauses called ‘articles’. The articles are wide-ranging and cover a number of areas including health, education, leisure and play, social security, child labour, children in care and juvenile justice.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Which two of the following are reasons that children have their own set of rights?

• They are more

vulnerable than adults

• They do not have

human rights

• They have special

developmental needs

Question 2 of 10

Children have their of set of rights because they are more vulnerable than adults and they have special developmental needs.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Which of the following is NOT an underpinning article of the UNCRC?

• Right to education
• Best interests of

the child

• Non-discrimination

Question 3 of 10

The right to education is NOT an underpinning principle of the UNCRC. The UNCRC underpinning principles include best interests of the child and non-discrimination

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Which of the following values are human rights based on? Treating everyone with:

• Fairness
• Equality
• Indebtedness
• Status
• Respect
• Dignity
• Independence
• Right to education

Question 4 of 10

Human rights are based on shared values of treating everyone with dignity, fairness, equality, respect ad independence

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Human rights are grouped into what two main categories?

• Power and control rights
• Civil and political rights
• Health, safety and shelter

rights

• Expression, belief and

inclusion rights

• Economic, social and

cultural rights

• Ownership and property

rights

Question 5 of 10

Human rights are grouped into two main categories:

• Civil and political

rights

• Economic, social

and cultural rights The other rights mentioned may either fall into these two categories or have no place in human rights.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

At what age do children’s rights cease according to the UNCRC?

• 15
• 21
• 12
• 16
• 18

Question 6 of 10

The UNCRC is an international treaty – an agreement between countries – setting out the rights and principles relation to children up to the age of 18.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

When did the UNCRC come into force in the UK?

• 15th January 1992
• 1st November 2004
• 16 December 1991
• 15th March 2016
• 22nd April 2016
• 19th April 1990

Question 7 of 10

The UK signed the UNCRC on 19th April 1990, ratified it on 16th December 1991 and it came into force 15th January 1992. This means that the UK must ensure that every child in the UK has the rights that are in the convention

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Which of the four of the UNCRC’s guiding principles is being described below? Children have the right to say what they think should happen and have their

• pinions taken into account
• Right to life
• Non-discrimination
• Best interest of the child
• Right to education
• Right to express views

Question 8 of 10

Children have the right to say what they think should happen and have their

• pinions taken into account

is the UNCRC’s principle of “the right of children to express their views and have them be given due weight”. This is especially relevant where adults are making decisions that affect children.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

What are the two optional UNCRC protocols that the UK has signed up to?

• Sale of children, child

prostitution and child pornography

• Communications

procedure

• Children in armed

conflict

Question 9 of 10

The UK has signed up to the Children in Armed Conflict protocol and the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography protocol. The UK has not signed up to the Optional Protocol on communication procedure, because there are already effective domestic laws in place.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

How often is the UK scrutinised by a UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on how well is it respecting children’s rights??

• Every 5 years
• There are no official checks
• Bi-annually
• Annually
• Every 2 years

Question 10 of 10

Every 5 years, a group of 18 experts from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child scrutinise the UK

• n how well it is respecting

children’s rights.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

The CRWIA is used to

• identify,
• research,
• analyse and
• record

the impact of a proposed law or policy on children's human rights and wellbeing.

Article 41: Where our laws give young people more rights, we should stick with them

What is the Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (CRWIA)?

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

CRWIA helps us to consider whether we are:

• advancing the rights of children in Scotland

as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

• protecting and promoting the wellbeing of

children and young people (Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC)) Why do we need CRWIAs?

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

• Assessments should take place

as early as possible in the policy development cycle.

• CRWIA can be undertaken as

part of a joint assessment, for example with an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA), but the outputs must be published separately.

Article 6: Children and young people have a right to survive and develop and the Government should give as much help as is needed

When to use the CRWIA?

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

The assessment is an approach, a process and a published output using three templates:

• screening
• CRWIA - key questions
• authorisation and publication of CRWIA

How? The three-stage CRWIA process

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

The CRWIA Flowchart

CRWIA required Sign the CRWIA declaration form and continue to next stage Stage 1 – Screening General description of the policy and its aims, supplemented by an initial assessment of the applicability of the policy/measure to children and young people in Scotland. Asks you to consider:

• What aspects will affect children and

young people up to 18

• What the likely impact will be
• Which groups of children and young

people will be most affected Based on this, decide - will this require a CRWIA? No CRWIA required Explain your reasons Sign the CRWIA declaration form Publish the Screening form There is a 3 stage process to CRWIA. This flowchart lays out the different steps you should take. Templates are available with key questions for each stage of the process, supported by guidance on what you need to consider at each stage.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

The CRWIA Flowchart

Stage 2 – the CRWIA Asks you to set out:  All relevant Articles of the UNCRC and Optional Protocols  What impact the policy will have on children’s rights  How the policy/measure will contribute to child wellbeing (using the GIRFEC child wellbeing indicators)  How the policy/measure will give better or further effect to the implementation of the UNCRC in Scotland  The evidence base for the assessment, including the results of consultations with stakeholder groups  How you have involved children and young people in the assessment

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

The CRWIA Flowchart

Stage 3 - Authorisation and Publication of CRWIA Prepare an abridged version of the CRWIA for publication that summarises Stage 2 findings. There are two different Stage 3 templates: one for policies, and one for legislation. The senior accountable officer must sign off the CRWIA. Consider preparing an accessible or child-friendly version of the CRWIA for publication.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

What makes a good CRWIA?

 Timing and consistency;  Accurate identification of (groups of) children;  Using the rights

• utlined

in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as a starting point;  Critical engagement with children and stakeholders;  Establish a review mechanism.  Ensuring attention is paid to indirect impacts

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Under Article 12 of the UNCRC, every child has the right to be heard in matters affecting them and to participate in the life of their family, community and society.

Involving children and young people in policy and service development

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

• Published research
• Consultation with children and young people
• Public consultation
• Targeted consultation
• Working through existing consultation

mechanisms like Young Scot or the Scottish Youth Parliament

• Call for evidence to service providers

Involving children and young people in policy and service development

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Previous CRWIAs

(Please note all of these examples were published using the

• riginal template)
• South of Scotland Enterprise Bill
• Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill
• Human Tissue (Authorisation)(Scotland) Bill
• Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill
• Age of criminal responsibility (Scotland) Bill
• Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Bill and Fuel Poverty

Strategy

• Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill - rehabilitation of offenders
• Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Bill

To find examples of published CRWIAs, search for CRWIA or Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment on the Scottish Government website

• South Ayrshire Council – Introduction of fees for music tuition

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

The Children’s Rights and Participation Team will be able to offer general advice on the CRWIA process itself.

Article 5: Parents’ rights to advise and guide you change as you grow up

Who can help?

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Where do I find the templates?

Website

• Guidance
• Templates
• 20-minute training tool
• Previous Example
• Quick reference guide to children’s rights legislation in Scotland
• Word version of templates will be sent out after this event.

Ceri Hunter – Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights - Programme Manager

Activity - CRWIA

• 1. Using the CRWIA

Template consider the questions at Stage 1 – Screening.

• 2. Which policies would

move to Stage 2?

• 3. Remember to consider

the Direct and Indirect Impacts on Children’s Rights/Wellbeing Indicators

• 4. You can also consider

policies currently in place in your organisation.

• Volunteering
• Recruitment
• Equality and Diversity
• Modern Apprenticeships
• Staff Handbook
• Child protection
• Organisational strategy
• Maternity, Paternity,

Adoption and Family Leave

Thank you

Any Questions? Ceri.hunter@gov.scot Tel: 0131 244 6500 Mobile: 07825521304 #ForEveryChild