Lucy Frazer on how lawyers can help CYP with sibling contact

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New guidance on Continuing Care and Welfare Assessments

Together with CELCIS and the Care Inspectorate, we have written a Practice Note to help explain the rights of looked after young people to stay put in positive care placements after they leave care.
Our contribution to changes to the law on the disclosure of childhood offending
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Disclosure of childhood criminal records – explained!

CYPCS Bruce Adamson on the right to see your brothers and sisters

Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland, talks to Janet Cormack of Clan Childlaw about children's rights and the importance of looked-after children's sibling relationships.
Alison Reid discusses why Clan Childlaw was set up

This year Clan Childlaw celebrates its 10-year anniversary - hear more from our Chief Executive and Principal Solicitor Alison Reid about why Clan Childlaw was set up and our current work.

What we do
Law student essay competition

To mark our 10-year anniversary, we asked law students around Scotland: What is the biggest children’s rights issue in Scotland and how can the law be used to resolve it? Congratulations to winner Michael Malvenda!
Child law case summaries

Summaries of cases undertaken by Clan Childlaw.
Training

We provide lawyer-led training about children's rights and the law in Scotland. We use our legal expertise and experience to train lawyers, advocates, and frontline workers who support children and young people.
Alison Reid

Principal Solicitor and Chief Executive
Get legal help for a child or young person

Information for professionals, support, advocacy, and advice workers or foster carers seeking help with the law or a legal problem for a child or young person they are working with. You will find frequently asked questions, case studies and other information on this page.
Sibling rights

We have long called for the law to be changed to prioritise care experienced children and young people's sibling relationships and are delighted that these changes were recently passed by the Scottish Parliament
Clan at 10

Events & Fundraising marking our 10th anniversary
A-Z resource library

Comprehensive library of material relating to children and young people's rights. This is reference point for all legal questions and problems children and young people might have.
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Training

We provide lawyer-led training about children's rights and the law in Scotland. We use our legal expertise and experience to train lawyers, advocates, and frontline workers who support children and young people. Read more

Launch of the Care Leavers' Law Service

On 18th June 2019 we welcomed nearly 100 colleagues from across the sector to the Lighthouse in Glasgow for an engagement and launch event for our new Care Leavers’ Law Service, a 5-year, Scotland-wide project funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Read more

UNCRC incorporation in Scotland - our consultation response

28th August 2019 - We are delighted the Scottish Government has committed to incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law. Read our response to the public consultation. Read more

What changes are there to children’s hearings during Covid-19?

New laws have been put in place for children’s hearings and for looked after children during Covid-19. This blog explains what it means. Read more