Children’s Rights, Child Poverty & Online Safety
Care Visions Family Talk with Bruce Adamson
Host, Lucy Johnston speaks with Bruce Adamson, human rights lawyer and former Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland. In this conversation he explains why listening to children is essential when shaping policy and how issues like poverty, online safety, mental health and global conflict are affecting young people today.
Please find below the video from the talk and also the audio podcast below.
More About Our Guest:
Bruce Adamson is a human rights lawyer with more than two decades of experience working to protect and promote children’s rights. He served as Scotland’s Children and Young People’s Commissioner from 2017 until stepping down in May 2023. During his time at the Commissioner’s office, he led work to uphold the rights of children and young people across Scotland, working closely with groups of young advisers. His tenure saw important legislative progress, including reforms to the age of criminal responsibility, the banning of physical punishment of children, and the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law.
Before becoming Commissioner, Bruce spent 13 years as a member of Scotland’s Children’s Panel, where he worked directly with children who required care and protection or who were in conflict with the law, helping make decisions about their safety and wellbeing. He is also a former Chair of the Scottish Child Law Centre.
In 2023, he joined the University of Glasgow School of Law as Professor of Practice, continuing his work in human rights and child law. Bruce has also contributed internationally as an expert adviser to organisations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Union and the OSCE, and during the Covid-19 pandemic he advised the World Health Organization on children’s rights. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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