Welcome to the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) learning page. This learning site provides resources to support children's rights and the implementation of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024'.
On Tuesday 16th of January 2024, Royal assent was granted for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Bill meaning it is now officially an Act. Most of its provisions will come into force on Tuesday 16th July 2024.
Every service within the NHS has a responsibility to uphold children’s rights, including services that don’t normally work directly with babies, children and young people and other services within NHS Boards.
Below are some useful resources which include the UNCRC eLearning module, presentations from recent UNCRC webinars and awareness sessions, along with the UNCRC newsletter.
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In the 90-minute webinar, Children in Scotland joined to discuss the important role we all have in upholding children’s rights and how to embed a children’s rights approach in your work. We know there is already lots of good practice across the organisation, we will explore some of these examples and how we can link our work with those rights to create positive outcomes for babies, children, and young people.
The webinar aimed to:
PDF copy of the PowerPoint presentations shown at the webinar.
In this 90-minute webinar, we were joined by the Scottish Youth Parliament, Starcatchers, and Early Years Scotland to explore the importance of the voices of babies, children, and young people in the implementation of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 and how we can be effectively informed by those views.
This webinar included:
PDF copy of the PowerPoint presentations shown at the webinar.
Type: Resource List
The new UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024, babies, children, and young people (and their advocates) under 18 have a new ability to use the courts to enforce their rights. Therefore, as employees within a public body, we must understand those rights, particularly in the context of our own work.
During the session, the following topics were covered:
Who is this session for?
PDF copy of the PowerPoint presentations shown at the webinar.
Type: Resource List
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NHS Education for Scotland (NES) published a UNCRC Incorporation Newsletter in April 2024.
If you have any questions, please email us at WCYPF@nes.scot.nhs.uk and a member of the team will reply back as soon as possible.