Children's Hearings System - Taking Stock of Recent Reforms

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Overview
Report
- Introduction
  - This Report
  - Evidence taken
  - Membership changes
- The Children's Hearings System - background, key facts and figures
  - About the Hearing System
  - Statistics and trends
    
    Legal Aid
- Key Issues
  - Children's Participation and Improvements to the Hearings Process
  - Views of a selection of young people with direct experience of the Children's Hearings System
  - Improvements to the Hearings Process
  - Training and the Role of Panel Members and Chairs
  - Advocacy & Safeguarders
  - Role of Solicitors
  - Feedback Loop
  - Co-ordination between Local Authorities
  - Interaction between the Children's Hearings System and the Courts
- Conclusions
  - Children's Participation
  - Role of Panel members and the chair
  - Improvements to the Hearings system
  - Advocacy and Safeguarders
  - Role of Solicitors
  - Feedback Loop
  - Interaction between the Hearings system and the Courts
- Annex A - Extract from the minutes
- Annex B - Written evidence
Sources

Image: Children's Hearings system - trend in referrals

Image: Children's Hearings System - Source of Referrals

Image: Most common grounds for referral to the Reporter 2015/16

Image: Table 1: Legal Aid Assistance

Image: Table 2: Children's Legal Assistance - Granted Applications

Social Work Scotland. (2017). Written submission.

NSPCC. (2017). Written submission.

Maggie Mellon. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 24, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989309

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 29). Official Report, Col 9. Retrieved from http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&mode=pdf

Education and Skills Committee 22 March 2017 [Draft], Morag Driscoll, contrib. 19, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10863&c=1986638

Education and Skills Committee 22 March 2017 [Draft], Morag Driscoll, contrib. 30, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10863&c=1986649

Education and Skills Committee 22 March 2017 [Draft], Morag Driscoll, contrib. 90, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10863&c=1986709

Law Society of Scotland. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 22). Official Report, Cols 24 & 25.

Claw Law. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 45, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989330

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 53, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989338

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 29). Official Report, Col 12.

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Malcolm Schaffer, contrib. 74, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984617

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Malcolm Schaffer, contrib. 104, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984647

CELCIS and the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee 22 March 2017 [Draft], Mark Allison, contrib. 55, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10863&c=1986674

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Families Need Fathers. (2017). Written submission.

Adoption and Fostering Alliance. (2017). Written submission.

Children's Hearings Scotland. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Boyd McAdam, contrib. 84, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984627

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Jennifer Davidson, contrib. 65, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984608

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 15). Official Report, Col 10.

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership. (2017). Written submission.

Children 1st Scotland. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 30, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989315

Scottish Children's Reporters Association. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 26, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989311

Scottish Legal Aid Board. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 29). Official Report, Col 11.

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Barnardo's Scotland. (2017). Written submission.

Education and Skills Committee 22 March 2017 [Draft], Morag Driscoll, contrib. 21, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10863&c=1986640

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 34, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989319

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Kate Rocks, contrib. 129, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984672

Education and Skills Committee. (2017). Official Report, Cols 31-32.

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Boyd McAdam, contrib. 23, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984566

Education and Skills Committee 22 March 2017 [Draft], Mark Allison, contrib. 13, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10863&c=1986632

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 15). Official Report, Col 16.

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Kate Rocks, contrib. 34, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984577

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Boyd McAdam, contrib. 36, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984579

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Malcolm Schaffer, contrib. 54, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984597

Education and Skills Committee 22 March 2017 [Draft], Mark Allison, contrib. 37, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10863&c=1986656

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Daljeet Dagon, contrib. 80, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984623

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 14, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989299

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, undefined). Official Report, Col 15.

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 29). Official Report, Col 13.

Education and Skills Committee 15 March 2017 [Draft], Julia Donnelly, contrib. 38, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10849&c=1984581

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 22). Official Report, Col 23.

Education and Skills Committee. (2017, March 15). Official Report, Cols 32-33.

Children's Hearings Scotland. (2017, March 13). Feedback Loop report 2014/15. Retrieved from http://www.chscotland.gov.uk/our-publications/planning-and-performance/2017/03/feedback-loop-report-2014-2015/

COSLA. (2017). Written submission.

COSLA written submission. (2017).

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 59, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989344

Education and Skills Committee 29 March 2017 [Draft], Mark McDonald, contrib. 57, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10879&c=1989342

Clan Law. (2017). Written submission.

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Image: Children's Hearings system - trend in referrals

Image: Children's Hearings System - Source of Referrals

Image: Most common grounds for referral to the Reporter 2015/16

Image: Table 1: Legal Aid Assistance

Image: Table 2: Children's Legal Assistance - Granted Applications

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