Events
The Observatory holds events related to children’s human rights implementation in Scotland.
The Institute for Inspiring Children's Futures (University of Strathclyde) organised a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course on Children’s Human Rights, in partnership with the Observatory of Children's Human Rights Scotland, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights), the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law. The CPD course took place in March 2022 and was led by UN Committee on the Rights of the Child member Professor Ann Skelton.
Read the course’s flyer (external website)
Each day's discussions were summarised in blogs.
- Read the day one blog (external website)
- Read the day two blog
- Read the day three blog (external website)
- Read the day four blog (external website)
- Read the day five blog (external website)
The Observatory co-hosted a webinar titled ‘Implementing Children’s Rights in Scotland – Developing Systems of Child-Friendly Complaints, Remedy and Redress' on the 4 February 2021.
Professor Kirsten Sandberg, University of Oslo, gave the Moray House School of Education and Sport Annual Lecture on 27 May 2020. Professor Sandberg's lecture was followed by contributions from Mairi Macpherson, Deputy Director for Creating Positive Futures, Scottish Government and Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland.
The Observatory was launched on 28 February 2020, alongside Together's State of Children's Rights Report 2019. Over 80 people came to the University of Edinburgh to hear about the Observatory and Together’s report, and to help the Observatory plan its priorities for making children’s rights real.