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This is our lives, it matters a lot: education reform report
Education reform report - Children & Young People's Commissioner Scotland
Report Theme: Education & Learning
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland
Year Evidence Completed: 2025
Location: Scotland-wide
Mental health: Counselling in schools
Report Theme: Health & Wellbeing
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland
Year Evidence Completed: 2023
Size of Study: 1-10
Location: Scotland-wide
The Commissioner’s Young Advisors investigation on school counselling as part of the Scottish Government’s response to the mental health crisis.
Learning Lessons
Young people's views on poverty and education in Scotland
Report Theme: Education & Learning
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland Save the Children
Year Evidence Completed: 2014
Size of Study: 501-1000
Location: Scotland-wide
This report sets out the key messages from a joint study by Save the Children and Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People to examine young people’s views on how to better support young people experiencing poverty to achieve at school – and in life.
Holiday Hunger
Involving children and young people – holiday hunger programmes in Scotland
Report Theme: Food
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland
Year Evidence Completed: 2017
Location: Scotland-wide
This briefing paper examines the complexities of involving children and young people in decision-making related to programmes that aim to reduce holiday hunger in Scotland.
Young People’s Views on Physical Punishment
Summary findings from the Young People in Scotland Survey 2016
Report Theme: Rights
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland
Location: Scotland-wide
This briefing provides a summary of findings from Ipsos MORI Scotland’s Young People in Scotland Survey 2016. The Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland commissioned a series of questions including a section on young people’s views of physical punishment.
“Coping is difficult, but I feel proud”
Perspectives on mental health and wellbeing of young carers
Report Theme: Health & Wellbeing
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland Carers Trust Scotland Scottish Young Carers Services Alliance
Year Evidence Completed: 2017
Size of Study: 101-500
Location: Scotland-wide
The report highlights the beginning of research into the impact that caring can have on young carers’ mental health and wellbeing, an issue we do not know enough about. This research is the first in the UK to match young carers and their perceptions of their health and wellbeing against a comparable sample of young people.
Promote. Protect. Defend.
A report on children and young people as human rights defenders in Scotland
Report Theme: Rights
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland
Year Evidence Completed: 2019
Age range: 0-4 5-6 7-10 11-14 15-17 18+
Location: Scotland-wide
This report was created with children human rights defenders in Scotland. The report outlines the action group’s recommendations for ways that the Scottish Government, Parliament and all public bodies can and should be supporting children and young people to defend human rights.