A new national participation group, Experts by Experience, will give children and young people with lived experience of hearings the chance to shape the work of the Children’s Hearings System.

We're excited to launch our annual recruitment campaign seeking new volunteer Panel Members across Scotland who will make decisions in the interests of infants, children and young people at children's hearings.

On International Youth Day, we share a guest blog by Andrew James, a young person with lived experience of the Children’s Hearings System.

CHS welcomes the launch of the Scottish Government’s Children’s Hearings Redesign consultation on the recommendations of the Hearings for Children report. Through our response we aim to continue to shape improvements in the hearings system.

CHS welcomes the Scottish Government’s announcement that people under the age of 18 will no longer be held in Young Offenders Institutions from the week beginning 2 September 2024.

Children and young people under the age of 18 in Scotland now have their rights enshrined in law. CHS welcomes the incorporation of the UNCRC into Scottish law.