Caroline McMenemy
Written 3 posts
Children’s rights unit
Understanding and being understood – the importance of inclusive communications and child-friendly materials
16th November 2022
Information is a key foundation of children’s rights and good participation practice. Providing information in child-friendly ways is vital for government. We share examples of best practice.
Countdown to World Children’s Day
14th November 2022
The Empowered Children and Young People’s Team at Scottish Government celebrate World Children’s Day. They invite young people to sign up to UNICEF’s Voices of Youth project and share the work they’ve been doing to support children’s rights.
Collaborative approaches to planning the UNCRC national children’s rights awareness raising campaign – the story of the young people’s awareness raising subgroup
24th June 2022
In our previous post ‘Taking forward UNCRC implementation in Scotland’ we highlighted our work co-planning a national awareness raising campaign on children’s rights, with children and young people involved in ‘Rights Right Now!’ We knew from the beginning that in order to make sure any Scottish Government campaign to raise awareness of children’s rights effective,…