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Clerk contact details

If you have any queries, or would just like to chat to someone about volunteering in the Children’s Hearings System, please contact the Clerk for Aberdeenshire:

Name: Nicole Chidester
Email: nicole.chidester@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Being a Panel Member in Aberdeenshire

As part of your role as a Panel Member in Aberdeenshire you will be expected to commit to sit on two children’s hearings every month and also to attend at least five learning and development opportunities per year.

Information sessions

Interested in becoming a Panel Member? Learn more this September 2023, sign up for an information session.

Wednesday 27 September: 6pm at Woodhill House, Westburn Road, Aberdeen, AB16 5GB

To sign up, please contact nicole.chidester@chscotland.scot.

Hearings schedule

Aberdeen: face to face – Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning and afternoon, Thursday morning. Address is The Exchange, No 2 62-104 Market Street, Aberdeen, AB11 5PJ.

Fraserburgh: Monday afternoon. Address is 10 Commerce Street, Fraserburgh, AB43 9AQ.

Virtual: Tuesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon.     

Applications now open