School Pupils and children and young people’s organisations across the Scottish Borders celebrated World Children's Day on 20 of November, UNICEF’s global day for children, by children.
World Children's Day marks the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and serves as a call to action for schools, communities and institutions to engage with and support children. The theme for 2024 is “Listen to the Future”.
Find out more about World Children's Day on the Unicef website.
Read the Convention on the Rights of the Child from the Unicef website.
Toolkit
UNICEF is encouraging the world to ‘listen to children’s hopes, dreams and visions for the future’ and has developed a parents and carers’ toolkit which covers –
The power of parenting
The importance of listening to children
How to get involved
Having conversations about child rights
View the World Children’s Day 2024 parents' toolkit on the UNICEF website.
We are a member of a local multi-agency working group within the Children and Young People’s Planning Partnership, which has been developing an action plan to prepare for United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Incorporation and to embed children’s rights approaches to their work.
Rights Respecting is not just a school approach but an approach the multi–agency partners are committed to embedding to create genuine practice, where children and young people are involved in the decision-making process as we work towards creating a true child-friendly Scottish Borders.
You can find more information about the UNCRC on our webpages.
Visit the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland website.