First Children's Rights Scheme

Annex B: The Link Between The Arrangements And What The UNCRC Act Specifies Must Be Included

Sections 14(3) and 17(3) of the Act states that the Scheme must include arrangements for achieving a specific set of outcomes by the Scottish Ministers. Those outcomes and the arrangements that will help to achieve them are listed below.

Ensure that children are able to participate in the making of decisions that affect them with access to such support and representation (for example from children’s advocacy services) as they require to do so.

Arrangements number 1, 20, 21, 22, 37 & 38.

Identify and address any situation where a child’s rights are (or are at a significant risk of) not being fulfilled.

Arrangements number 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 & 35.

Raise awareness of and promote the rights of children.

Arrangements number 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, & 19

Promote complaints handling procedures that children can understand and use.

Arrangement number 37. (The Scottish Government’s planned commitment on child friendly complaints processes has already been delivered – see section “Supporting children and young people to seek a remedy for a rights concern”.)

Ensure that children have effective access to justice.

Arrangements number 37, 38, 39 & 40.

Protect the rights of children in relation to their interactions with persons, other than public authorities, who provide services which affect children.

Arrangements number 16 & 17.

Consider the rights of children in the Scottish Government’s budget process.

Arrangements number 2, 3 & 4.

Ensure that their actions contribute to any national outcome for children determined by them under Part 1 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.

The general principle that the National Outcomes will continue to drive the work and priorities of the Scottish Government and its Executive Agencies and that the Scottish Government budget will continue to be focused on the strategic priorities set out in the National Outcomes and the First Minister’s key priorities.

Prepare and publish Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessments.

Arrangements number 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9.

Use, and promote the use of, inclusive ways of communicating that ensure that children are able to receive information and express themselves in ways that best meet their needs (in relation to speech, language or otherwise).

Arrangements number 23, 24, 25 & 26