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UNCRC and Children’s Right to Family – Preserving Sibling Relationships
Created: 27/01/2025
News/Events Category: Children and Families
This training continues Clan Childlaw's series focusing on the incorporation of the UNCRC. Designed by expert lawyers, it offers practical insights and tools to help advocacy workers and practitioners in Scotland strengthen their confidence in using UNCRC rights to improve the lives of children and young people.
This course will equip you with the knowledge and strategies to advocate effectively for sibling relationships, using both UNCRC rights and Scotland’s ‘sibling rights’ legislation.
Why attend?
Article 3 of UNCRC says that in all decisions about children the best interests of the child must be a primary consideration. In Scotland, the importance of sibling relationships is recognised in law and policy, but gaps in practice often lead to fractured sibling bonds. This impacts children’s rights to have their views considered when decisions are made about their siblings and to maintain meaningful relationships with their siblings.
By the end of the training, you will be able to:
- Describe how UNCRC principles support the protection of sibling relationships in Scotland
- Explain the context of the sibling relationship in Scotland
- Discuss strategies to protect sibling relationships in the Children’s Hearings system
- Identify opportunities to protect sibling relationships for children looked after under Section 25 or on Permanence and Adoption orders
- Identify when children and young people need a lawyer to protect sibling relationships
Who is this course for?
This training will be useful for anyone whose work involves advocating for or supporting children in the Children’s Hearing System, and who wants to understand how those children’s lives can be improved by using their UNCRC rights.
It is particularly useful for:
- Advocacy workers
- Youth workers
- Support workers
- Social workers
- Children’s rights officers
- Residential childcare workers
- Children’s panel members
- Policy professionals whose work is informed by seeing how rights work in practice
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