Request

Under Part 1 (section 2) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 your authority has a duty to publish a report every 3 years of what steps you have taken to secure better or further effect within your area of responsibility of the UNCRC requirements.

The first 3 year period ended on 31 March 2020, and the second 3 year period will end on 31 March 2023.

Children’s Rights Report 2017-20
1. A weblink or copy of your published report covering the first 3 year
period (1 April 2017 – 31 March 2020).
2. However, if you have not yet published a report for this period can you
confirm (yes/no) if you intend to do so,
2.1 And if yes, an indication of when it will be published.

Children’s Rights Report 2020-23
3. Has your authority started work on preparing this report? Yes/No.
4. When do you intend to publish the report?
5. Will it be published as a separate report or as part of another report?
Yes/No. For example, within your annual report.
5.1 And if ‘yes’, published as part of another report – can you provide the
name/description of the other report?
6. Are you producing a joint report with another authority? Yes/No.
6.1 And if ‘yes’ – which authority?
7. Do you intend to create a child friendly version of the report? Yes/No.
8. Please provide the name and contact details of the overall lead within
your authority for preparing the report.
9. Please do add in any additional information you would like to share
regarding the process used to develop the report – for example whether
you have involved children and young people in drafting it, whether you
adopted the cluster approach as recommended by the relevant Scottish
Government guidance, or the governance process used for sign off.