Quality improvement interventions play an important role in promoting and upholding children’s rights. The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 requires the Care Inspectorate to publish a report every three years to show what steps have been taken to put the UNCRC into practice. This report covers progress during the period 1 April 2020-31 March 2023 and highlights a range of activities undertaken to protect, promote and defend children’s rights.
In our last report we said between 2020-2023 we planned to focus on these seven areas:
- Make the changes needed from the Independent Care Review.
- Continue to support the growth of early learning and childcare.
- Develop a range of different ways to speak to children and young people and their families.
- Continue to share information across all areas of the Care Inspectorate in the best way.
- Work with children and young people, their families and advocacy workers to tell us about concerns. This includes talking to people who have left care services.
- Work with the Mental Welfare Commission on restrictive practices and good practice in the use of physical restraint and seclusion.
- Continue to train and develop our workforce in children and young people’s issues and rights.
More information about these areas can be found here.
The above information is from improvement update newsletter from the Care Inspectorate Thu 07/03/2024
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