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xLaunching the Tiny Rights Detectives Report: Strengthening Babies’ Rights in Scotland
Date: 4th March 2025
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General principles
On Wednesday 5th of March 2025, we published our first Tiny Rights Detectives report – “Exploring Pathways to Justice for Babies.” We’d like to say a huge thanks to Oscar and Safiyah (two of the original Rights Detectives) who took on new roles as Senior Rights Detectives. They supported the design and implementation of the Tiny Rights Detectives pilot, which expanded the Rights Detectives model to include babies, young children, and their families.
During the pilot, we worked with our brilliant members and partners - Craigmillar Literacy Trust, Home-Start Wigtownshire, Play Scotland, Starcatchers, Parenting Across Scotland and Home-Start UK. We also appreciated early project development advice from Licketyspit. A special thanks to Cattanach for generously funding this pilot project.
Through the Tiny Rights Detectives, we set out to explore how babies experience and communicate their rights - and what prevents these rights from being met. We found that babies clearly express their needs and preferences, yet these signals are often overlooked or misunderstood. Trusted relationships with caregivers play an important role in ensuring babies’ rights are recognised, but everyday barriers - such as transport, unsafe public spaces, and inaccessible complaints processes - continue to limit their access to services and justice.
Our investigations also showed that many existing complaints processes fail to capture babies’ experiences, making it difficult for families to challenge rights violations. Greater awareness and more accessible pathways to justice are crucial to ensuring Scotland’s youngest children are able to benefit from the rights protections now enshrined in law.
- Read the full report
- Read the child-friendly report
- Find out more about the Rights Detectives
The Together team are delighted to be sharing the findings of the Tiny Rights Detectives at Starcatchers ‘The Right Start’ conference on Thursday the 6th of March 2025 at the Barracks in Stirling.