Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01675 · Session 5

Attendance at Children's Hearings

Closed Submitted 9 Oct 2017 Justice
Signatures
0
12 online signatures with a country
Comments
3
Considered
1 meeting
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to urgently change the requirement that all children from birth to 18 years of age have to attend Children's Hearings, unless the Panel agrees to excuse them.

What the petitioner did first

Discussions with MSPs, councillors, Children's Hearing Panel Members of Children's Hearings and staff of Scottish Children's Reporter Administration.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 10 May 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    4 mentions

Signatures by country

12 online signatures
  1. Scotland10 83.3%
  2. United Kingdom2 16.7%

Comments

3 comments, oldest first
  1. Gillian McNeish 16 Oct 2017
    Once again children are pawns and rolled out to make social workers look good.
  2. Louise Welsh 18 Oct 2017
    the children are traumatised enough without that.
  3. Louise Malone 18 Oct 2017
    I am one off menny mum's in Scotland and England targeted as a result off partners in the past and now it all on me as a mum not the dad it not fair to kids to have to be left so tromatisd in the end off the metting my little boy how may have a.d.h.d or on the ortistick spectrum is changing at time but to have to put all ur atensh in to the kids at the hearing u can't fucase on the panel members so plez look in to it all it morally and palitaclky rong on so menny leaves.