Rights Detectives

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Recent Report to Scottish Government - On Tuesday 20th June 2023, we published our next Rights Detectives Report (Mission #002) providing an update to Scottish Government. Yet again, the Detectives excelled in their investigations, conducting workshops with a total of 105 children & young people ranging from 5 to 17 years old. These workshops took place in various locations, including Moray, Fife, Edinburgh, East Lothian, Aberdeen, and Inverness. Click here to view full report. We have created a Child-Friendly Version, if you click here you will be able to access the report. 

Background

The Rights Detectives are a group of children aged 11 - 17 from across Scotland who are helping to shape a NEW Human Rights Bill!

Running from July 2022 to March 2023, the Rights Detectives receive special missions from Scottish Government and join Together for online and in-person sessions. 

The missions involve investigative research with other children and young people to help make sure what matters to children is put into this new law!

Important Links Below!

Blog: Curious to find out more? We have published an article providing further detail about our Rights Detectives' hard work. Read the article here.

Reports to Scottish Government: On Tuesday 20th June 2023, we published our next Rights Detectives Report (Mission #002) providing an update to Scottish Government. Yet again, the Detectives excelled in their investigations, conducting workshops with a total of 105 children & young people ranging from 5 to 17 years old. These workshops took place in various locations, including Moray, Fife, Edinburgh, East Lothian, Aberdeen, and Inverness. Click here to view full report. We have created a Child-Friendly Version, if you click here you will be able to access the report. 

On Thursday 2nd of March 2023, we published our Rights Detectives Report providing an update to Scottish Government. Our Rights Detectives have been extremely busy investigating, completing missions and spoken to 84 children and young people. Click here to view full report. We have created a Child-Friendly Version, if you click here you will be able to access the report. 

Mapping Report Exercise: Children and young people express frustration that adults repeatedly ask them the same questions but do little with what they have heard. This report summarises what we already know about children’s views and experiences of their human rights. The aim is to help The Rights Detectives as they are planning their investigations. The report, if you click here you can access, follows a mapping exercise of engagement projects conducted with children since the beginning of 2020. It focuses on projects funded by (or delivered in partnership with) public authorities including Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament and executive agencies.

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Below is our Rights Detective Timeline to help keep us on track with our missions from Scottish Government: