UNCRC in Practice: Child Friendly Communications
Webinar resources from the UNCRC in Practice WCYPF Webinar, which was hosted on Thursday 09 October 2025. These resources will be available until Thursday 30 April 2026.
Webinar Details
The Women, Children, Young People and Families (WYCPF) team at NHS Education for Scotland (NES) were delighted to host a webinar in partnership with Improvement Service, focusing on UNCRC in Practice: What makes information child friendly? Exploring how public bodies can create information for children and young people in Scotland. Children have a right to seek, receive and impart information and that often requires access to child-friendly written information.
The webinar aimed to:
Explore what we mean by child friendly information and why it is important
Hear some top tips on how to tailor information for different age groups
Explore some examples from local authorities and health boards
Offer time to consider the topic together and share practice
Resources
PDF copy of the presentation PowerPoint slides:
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The presentation shared by Young Scot was developed via Canva. Access the presentation below to open in Canva, then click the side of the screen to navigate. You may also wish to view the videos embedded into the presentation.
The following Sway has been produced by NHS Education for Scotland, in partnership with Improvement Service, which will provide you with further information and resources from the webinar.
NHS Education & Improvement Service - Child Friendly Communication Webinar
Videos
You may wish to view the following videos. Some of these videos were shown at the live webinar:
Aberdeenshire CYP Services Plan
North Lanarkshire Children's Services Partnership | North Lanarkshire Council
Director of Public Health Annual Report 2024
Captions are available on each video hosting platform.