UNCRC and Children’s Right to a Home

Date: 30th October 2024
Time: 09:30-12:30pm
Location: Online

Cost: £75

Clan Childlaw is delivering a training session on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and children’s right to a home. This training is designed to offer practical developing knowledge of UNCRC to those whose support and advocacy is essential to children and young people in Scotland.

 Key learning: 

• The principles of UNCRC and what they mean for a child facing homelessness;
• How to use a child’s rights to support care experienced children with housing problems;
• The importance of getting it right when planning for leaving care to prevent homelessness and stays in unsuitable accommodation;
• How to use continuing care rights to prevent homelessness;
• The role of lawyers and identifying when children and young people need a lawyer to support with their transition from care or housing decisions;
• Practical tips and signposting to resources and further learning.

This training will be useful for anyone whose work involves advocating for or supporting children experiencing or at risk from homelessness when they leave care and who wants to understand how those children’s lives can be improved by using their UNCRC rights.

Find out how you can prevent negative consequences for children and young people you work with by using their UNCRC rights alongside Scottish child welfare legislation when you advocate for them.

• Click here for more information and to register