Scottish Parents' Survey 2021 - children's rights: results

Findings on children’s rights from Scottish Parents’ omnibus survey children and families analysis 2021.


6. Confidence in helping children challenge rights breaches

Parents were also asked about their confidence in helping their children challenge breaches of their rights, if their rights were not met. A large majority of 88% agreed that they would feel confident in doing so, including 66% who strongly agreed.

Figure 6.1 - Parents’ agreement with the statement ‘I would feel confident in helping my child/children challenge breaches of their rights, if their rights were not being met.’

Base: 1004

While there were limited gender differences in overall agreement with this statement, women were more likely than men to strongly agree (71% compared with 57%).

While agreement with this statement was very high regardless of background knowledge, parents who said they knew a great deal about the UNCRC were more likely to strongly agree that they would feel confident in helping their child or children to challenge breaches of their rights than those who had never heard of UNCRC (92% compared with 62%).

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