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- Children’s Hearings Scotland attends 15th Kilbrandon Lecture
- We are hiring!
- Welcome changes for children’s hearings
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- Response to Raising The Age Of Referral To The Principal Reporter
- Social media takeover for Care Experienced Week
- Growth of ‘digital volunteering’ recognised in new Impact Report
- Inclusion opportunities for young people
- Revised version of the Practice and Procedure Manual
- Holiday office closure
- Recruitment now open!
- Board Members reappointed
- UNCRC Incorporation Bill has passed
- Easter weekend
- Blog: Children’s hearings system and child-friendly justice
- Blog: 46 years as a Panel Member
- Blog: Panel Member turned Panel Practice Advisor
- Blog: Happy Birthday to the first children's hearing!
- Blog: A unique system that puts children’s rights at its heart
- Blog: A children's hearings volunteer journey
- Blog: 40 years in the children's hearings system
- New Hearing Rooms Programme
- Volunteers' Week 2021
- New Area Convener appointed
- Join our team!
- We are recruiting Area Support Team members
- Statement - ruling on UNCRC incorporation
- Be part of it - join our volunteer Area Support Teams
- Children’s Hearings Scotland launches Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
- Our Impact Report 2020-2021
- New Area Conveners appointed
- We're recruiting for volunteer Area Conveners
- A National Care Service for Scotland consultation
- CHS launches Participation Standards
- Changes to Panel Member practice - Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (1)
- CHS Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17
- Volunteers’ Week 2017
- Publication of CHS’ Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2017/18
- New Members Appointed to the Children’s Hearings Scotland Board
- What is youth justice? Reflections on the 1968 Act
- Renfrewshire AST hold Care Experienced Week event
- CHS publishes first annual Impact Report
- Children's Hearings Scotland first Panel Practice Advisors Forum takes place
- Glasgow celebrates 235 years of volunteering
- Happy Volunteers' Week!
- We are pledging our support to Stand Up For Siblings
- CHS Board member wins National Youth Work award
- SCRA updates rights information flyer
- CHS makes new Area Support Team appointments
- Children’s Hearings Scotland Welcomes A New Volunteer!
- Children's Hearings Scotland Learning Academy Launches Prospectus 2020
- Children's Hearings Scotland publishes Impact Report 2018-19
- Response to Programme for Government
- CHS launches digital Practice and Procedure Manual
- Children’s Hearings Scotland appoints new Area Convener of Highland & Moray
- Children’s Hearings Scotland launches drive to recruit 500 new Panel Members
- Dumfries and Galloway Area Support Team Hold Recognition Event
- Aberdeen Hosts Its Annual BBQ and Recognition Event
- Ayrshire Area Support Team Holds Exciting Panel Member Award Ceremony
- Inverclyde Hosts Panel Member and Area Support Team Recognition Evening
- Central and West Lothian Holds Volunteer Recognition Event!
- CHS volunteer and National Convener recognised in Queens Birthday Honours List
- Children’s Hearings Scotland appoints new National Convener and Chief Executive
- We've moved
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- CHS launches 2019-20 Business & Corporate Parenting Plan
- Stand Up For Siblings - One year on
- Children's Hearings Scotland Learning Academy launches!
- CHS’ response to call for further evidence on the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Bill
- How children's hearings will adapt to coronavirus lockdown easing
- New plan puts children’s rights at heart of hearings
- CHS launches a Coronavirus Practice Guide
- Participation in virtual children’s hearings during the Coronavirus
- CHS welcomes new volunteers
- Changes to Panel Member practice - Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (1) (1)
- Virtual children's hearings in Scotland
- Area Convener of Glasgow re-appointed
- Response to the Supreme Court Decision on the role of siblings in children’s hearings
- CHS welcomes the publication of the Independent Care Review Evidence Framework
- Children’s voice at forefront of new strategy as consultation launched
- New service to support volunteer wellbeing
- Back to School: A rights-based approach to recovery
- CHS appoints four new Area Conveners across Scotland
- Children's Rights and Inclusion Strategy launches today
- Children’s Hearings Scotland supports new national advocacy scheme
- Email address change
- Join the Children's Hearings Scotland Board
- We are committed to #KeepThePromise
- We are recruiting!
- Training contract extended with West Lothian College
- New Board members appointed
- New rights for brothers and sisters in children’s hearings from 26 July
- Trainees officially appointed as Panel Members
- New legal rights for siblings attending children’s hearings
- The Hearings System Working Group is established
- View our open access learning module about changes to the Children (Scotland) Act 2020
- Hearing System Working Group holds first meeting
- We’re looking for a new Board Chair at Children’s Hearings Scotland
- Coronavirus Update: Children's Hearings
- CHS opening hours over the festive period
- CHS Volunteers recognised in 2022 New Years Honours
- 700 volunteer Panel Members needed across Scotland
- Children’s Hearings Scotland response
- CHS National Convener appoints South East Scotland Area Convener
- The Hearings System Working Group Issues List Launch
- Hearings System Working Group launches webinar
- Glasgow Area Convener appointed
- New Chair of the Board appointed
- The role of Panel Members and legal representatives
- CHS celebrates Volunteers' Week 2022
- New Area Convener for Aberdeenshire Support Team
- Children's Hearings Scotland is recruiting Panel Practice Advisors
- The importance of Inclusivity – Spotlight discussion with Head of Learning, Christine Mullen for Pride Month
- CHS National Convener appoints Argyll and Bute Area Convener
- Clare Haughey, Minister for Children and Young People attends Inverclyde Recognition Event
- Death of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II
- Panel Member Application Deadline Extended!
- Impact Report 2021/22
- Blog: Care Experienced Week
- Children Care and Justice Bill
- CHS Festive Hours
- #KeepThePromise Latest Update
- Panel Practice Advisor – is it for me?
- New law will deliver long-needed change, but questions remain
- More than 300 new Panel Members join Children’s Hearings System
- Our Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2023-24
- Helping build a trauma-informed system
- CHS welcomes the Hearings System Working Group report
- Celebrating our 2,500 volunteers
- Why does volunteering matter to our team?
- Children’s Rights and Inclusion, Progress for 2022
- Panel Members celebrated in Scottish Parliament
- Making it easier for children to give feedback
- Panel Member recruitment campaign launches
- CHS expands team of report writers for hearings
- Compulsory Supervision Orders feedback report
- My first hearing as a new Panel Member
- Putting children's rights at the heart of the hearings system
- Feedback report on Compulsory Supervision Orders calls for better data to improve outcomes
- Postcard pilot to gather feedback from children at hearings
- A year of powerful impact on outcomes for children
- Glasgow Panel Members honoured
- CHS welcomes Scotland’s historic UNCRC Bill to protect children’s rights
- Scottish Government's response to Hearings for Children report
- Our focus on quality
- CHS hosts Welsh minister on fact-finding visit
- Care Leaver Payment: consultation response
- Stories of Change – inspiring us to keep the Promise
- CHS celebrates Care Day 2024
- Postcards trial gathers feedback from young people
- Blog: how lived experience shapes hearings
- More than 330 new Panel Members appointed
- CHS welcomes passing of Care and Justice Bill
- Opinion: Care and Justice vote endorses hearings system
- Transition to nine Area Support Teams complete
- Film and guides launched to improve language in hearings
- Strategic Outlook and annual plan set ambitious goals
- CHS welcomes The Promise Plan 24-30 launch
- Panel Community honoured at Royal Garden Party
- All under-18s to be removed from Young Offenders Institutions
- Hearings redesign consultation launched by Scottish Government
- A young person’s views on the Care and Justice Act (guest blog)
- Annual hearings data published
- CHS welcomes implementation of UNCRC into law
- Scotland-wide campaign launches for Panel Member recruitment
- Experts by Experience: young people shaping the hearings system
- Minister champions volunteer voice at CHS Board meeting
- CHS proud to be a Fostering Friendly employer
- CHS celebrates Care Experienced Week 2024
- New Quality Strategy will help drive continuous improvement
- Elliot Jackson reappointed National Convener
- Barbara Neil reappointed to CHS Board
- Participation and Rights Strategy co-designed by young people
- Tribunal Support Model wins Scottish Public Service Award
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Resources
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Reports and Planning
- Children’s Participation and Rights Strategy 2024
- Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24
- Impact Report 2023-24
- Quality Strategy 2024-27
- Strategic Outlook 2024-27
- Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2024-25
- Biodiversity Report 2021-23
- Public Services Reform Statement 2022-23
- Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
- Impact Report 2022-23
- Feedback Loop 2020-2023
- Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2023-24
- Progressing Rights at Children's Hearings Scotland 2020 - 2023
- Framework document
- Children's Rights and Inclusion Report, December 2022
- Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2021-22
- Public Services Reform Statement 2021
- Progressing Rights at Children's Hearings Scotland 2017 - 2020 summary report
- Progressing Rights at Children's Hearings Scotland 2017 - 2020
- Biodiversity Duty Report 2018 - 2020
- Annual Impact Report 2019-20
- Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20
- Children's Rights and Inclusion Strategy - Consultation
- Corporate Plan 2018-21
- Phase two consultation report to the Hearings System Working Group
- Feedback Loop 2016-2020
- Hearing System Working Group Issues List
- HSWG response ideas Appendix 2
- Annual Report and Accounts 2021-2022
- Impact Report 2022
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
- Business Plan 2022 - 23
- Learning Academy Annual Report 2021
- Impact Report 2020-21
- Children's Rights and Inclusion Strategy
- Corporate Plan 2020-23
- Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2020-21
- Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21
- Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2019-20
- Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2018-19
- Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19
- Annual Impact Report 2018-19
- Public Services Reform Statement 2018
- Business and Corporate Parenting Plan 2017-18
- Annual Report and Accounts 2017-18
- Annual Impact Report 2017-18
- Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17
- Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16
- Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15
- Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14
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Hearings Operation
- Privacy Statement for Independent Reports
- Independent Report Writers: Practice Standards and Expectations
- Children (Scotland) Act - CHS Learning Academy
- Core policies for Children's Panel and ASTs
- Recruitment, Selection and Recommendation
- Jargon Buster
- Complaints Handling Procedure
- Area Support Team, SCRA Locality Operating Framework
- National Standards
- Competence Framework
- ASTs: Functions, Roles and Responsibilities
- Practice and Procedure Manual
- Language in the Hearing Room
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Consultations and Evidence
- Response to Human Rights Bill For Scotland consultation
- Healthcare Improvement Scotland consultation on Bairns’ Hoose (Barnahus) model
- Response to Children’s Care and Justice Bill
- Letter to Covid-19 Recovery Committee
- Cross border placements of children and young people in residential care
- Response to GIRFEC refresh – Practice Guidance
- Response to National Care Service for Scotland consultation
- Response to Raising The Age Of Referral
- Response to the incorporation of UNCRC
- Response to the Children (Scotland) Bill
- Response to the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
- Consultation Statement on UNCRC Statutory Guidance
- Response to the ‘Moving On’ From Care Into Adulthood consultation
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Equality and Diversity
- CHS Gender Representation on Public Boards
- Gender Pay Gap Report 2024
- Equality Impact Assessment Full Assessment Form
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes 2022 - 2023 Progress Report
- Gender Pay Gap and Equal Pay Report 2022
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes 2020 - 2022 Progress Report
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes 2020-22
- Gender Pay Gap and Equal Pay Report 2020
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes 2018-20
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes Progress Report 2018-20
- Gender Pay Gap and Equal Pay Report 2018
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes Progress Report 2016-18
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes 2016-18
- Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes 2022 - 2024
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