Join us at The Right Start conference!

Date: 19th November 2024
Category: General measures of implementation

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Tickets are now on sale for The Right Start conference on 6^th March 2025, hosted by Starcatchers in partnership with Together and Children in Scotland. This will be a day filled with discussion, workshops and talks to learn and celebrate the potential of babies and early years children.

The incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law earlier this year was a landmark moment for all children and young people, including babies. Yet how babies experience their rights feels complicated and complex.

The event will be an opportunity for exploration, discussion and learning. It aims to start a conversation about what babies' rights could look and feel like in Scotland.

We will look at a range of topics and themes, built around a programme of opportunities to share and ask questions that will help us visualise a Scotland where babies are included in policy and decision-making.

Drawing on Starcatchers’ wealth of experience, participants will focus on the role the arts can play in helping babies experience their rights, as well as the role parents, carers and adults play in the realisation of those rights.

The event will see contributions from the following speakers with the full programme to be announced in the coming weeks:

• Dr Caspar Addyman
• Dr Rachel Drury & Dr Cara Blaisdell
• Nicola Killean, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland
• Ruth Boycott-Garnett
• Children in Wales
• Starcatchers
• Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights)

Starcatchers, Together and Children in Scotland look forward to welcoming you to this conference and continuing the journey to making Scotland the best place for children to grow up.

We would like to thank our funders Creative Scotland and the Independent Human Rights Fund, and Cattanach for their continued support of this work.

• Book your tickets here