The Children and Young People’s Rights Service

• General Information
• What does the Children and Young People’s Rights Worker do?
• Who can use the Children and Young People’s Rights Service?
• What rights do children and young people have?
• Contact Details

General Information

The Service is run by CHILDREN 1st in partnership with the Moray Council. It is an independent and confidential service although confidentiality is not guaranteed where a child may be in danger

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What does the Children and Young People’s Rights Worker do?

• She can provide information and advice on children and young people’s rights
• She can support children and young people to have their views heard in matters that affect them
• She can support them to put forward their views on the services they receive

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Who can use the Children and Young People’s Rights Service?

• Young people who are living away from home in foster care, children’s homes or residential schools
• Young people who attend meetings such as Children’s Hearings, Looked After Child Reviews, education reviews, Child Protection Case Conferences, Integrated Assessment and Planning meetings, Fostering and Adoption Panels etc.
• Young people who wish to appeal an exclusion from school or a change in their Educational Maintenance Allowance
• Young people who would like support to speak to adults about their additional support needs, problems with bullying, living with domestic abuse etc.
• Young people who would like support to make a complaint.

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What rights do children and young people have?

These rights are laid down by international convention, Scottish law and government policy.

You can find out more:

• The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• The Children(Scotland) Act 1995
• The Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc Act 2000
• The Human Rights Act 1998
• The Additional Support for Learning (Scotland) Act

If you want to know about what young people can legally do at what age try www.youngscot.org/info/your-rights-the-law.

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Contact Details

If you would like to speak to the Children and Young People’s Rights Worker about children and young people’s rights or to ask for support please

Tel: 0800 169 4394

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