Child rights monitoring

One of the core duties of Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People is to review law, policy and practice to examine their effectiveness in respecting the rights of children and young people.

Here, you can find details of how the Commissioner's office goes about carrying out this duty, of which monitoring human rights treaties forms a large part.

Scottish Children's Rights Implementation Monitoring Group (SCRIMG)

In partnership with the Scottish Government and Together Scotland, we have established the Scottish Children's Rights Implementation Monitoring Group (SCRIMG).

The group meets four times a year, and aims to develop a common understanding on how much work has been done around putting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice in Scotland. It also talks about new issues in children's rights and aggrees approaches and actions to address them where possible.

Joint Commissioner reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

The Scottish, Welsh, English and Northern Irish Children's Commissioners are required to report on progress to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child every five years.

The below documents all open in PDF form.

• Joint Commissioners' mid-term report 2011


• Accompanying evidence 2011


• Joint Commissioners' report 2008

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is the Scottish Government's response to the 2008 concluding observations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The below documents all open in PDF form.

• Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People’s response to the Scottish Government’s Do the Right Thing progress report 2012


• Do the Right Thing progress report 2012


• Do the Right Thing 2009

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Below is a PDF consideration of reports submitted by State parties under Article 44 of the Convention.

• Committee on the Rights of the Child - Concluding Observations 2008