TY - JOUR
AU - Porter, Robert B.
AU - Gillon, Fern Rebecca Louise
AU - Mitchell, Fiona
AU - Vaswani, Nina
AU - Young, Emma
PY - 2021
DA - April
TI - Children's rights in children's hearings: the impact of Covid-19
JO - International Journal of Children's Rights
EP - 446
VL - 29
DO - https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-29020012
AB - The Scottish Children's Hearings System makes life-changing decisions regarding the care and protection of children up to 18 years of age referred due to a need for support – because of offending behaviour or a risk to their physical or emotional safety. In March 2020, due to the Covid-19 crisis, Hearings underwent one of the most significant changes since their inception: proceedings shifted to an online conferencing platform ('virtual hearings'), and some procedural modifications were introduced. In June 2020, we used an online survey to gather more than 270 responses from professionals, volunteers, young people, and families who had experience of virtual hearings. These responses highlight that while there are reasonable justifications for the use of virtual hearings, including the duty to ensure orders are appropriately reviewed and renewed, concerns related to children and young people's right to participation, privacy and representation bring into question the extent to which children's rights are realised in virtual Children's Hearings.
PB - Brill
UR - https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/publications/childens-rights-in-childrens-hearings-the-impact-of-covid-19
KW - Children, young people and families
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER