UNCRC and Children’s Right to be Heard
Clan Childlaw
This event is in the past
Our team of expert lawyers have designed this training to offer practical, developing knowledge of UNCRC to those whose support and advocacy is essential to children and young people in Scotland. Over the course of the year there will be training on a variety of ways you will encounter UNCRC in practice, including sibling rights, transition from care, preventing homelessness and supporting unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
About this course:
It is a general principle of UNCRC that every child has rights. Children in conflict with the law are among the most marginalised and are at risk of being treated as offenders instead of as children. This can result in children being in secure accommodation Children accused of minor offending can end up with a ‘criminal record’ which restricts their lives as adults. The challenge for those advocating for and supporting these children in Children’s Hearings is to ensure that all decisions are in the best interests of the child.
This training will connect your day-to-day work with children in conflict with the law to UNCRC articles, strengthening your rights-based practice. Find out how you can prevent negative consequences for children and young people you work with by using their UNCRC rights when you advocate for them.
Key learning:
- The principles of UNCRC and what they mean for children in conflict with the law in the Children’s Hearing system.
- How to use a child’s right to be heard in the Children’s Hearing system
- The children’s hearing process and how children in conflict with the law experience their hearings.
- UNCRC and Children’s Hearing’s decision to place a child in secure accommodation.
- Disclosure/criminal records – practical ways to support children to understand their record and what accepting offence grounds means for them.
- The role of lawyers and identifying when children and young people in conflict with the law need a lawyer.
- Practical tips and signposting to resources and further learning.
Who is this course for?
This training will be useful for anyone whose work involves advocating for or supporting children in the Children’s Hearing System, and who wants to understand how those children’s lives can be improved by using their UNCRC rights. We think our training will be useful and interesting for advocacy workers, youth workers, support workers, social workers, children’s rights officers, residential childcare workers and children’s panel members. It will also be of interest to those whose work in policy and influencing is informed by seeing how rights work in practice.
- Date
- 09:30-12:30, 29 August 2024
- Contact
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Alison Drennan
0808 129 0522 - Theme
- Families & young people
- Cost
- 75.00
- Attendance type
- Online only
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