Question reference: S6W-05973
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 27 January 2022
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Current status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 9 February 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Minister for Children and Young People will meet with people who have raised concerns about human rights compliance in relation to the treatment of volunteers at Children's Hearings Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Government is aware of a small number of people who have raised concerns based on how they see rights requirements pertaining to volunteer roles with Children’s Hearings Scotland.
Officials and Ministers have extensively engaged on this subject with individual correspondents and Members on multiple occasions over the course of the last Parliament. Detailed information and reassurance on the context of relevant legislation, the autonomy of statutory office holders like the National Convener and the appropriate demarcation of roles in relation to the sponsorship of Non Departmental Public Bodies have been covered extensively. Children’s Hearings Scotland have communicated their position. Ministers have no locus in these matters.