Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights)

Strategic Plan 2024-32: A Scotland where every baby, child and young person grows up in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding!

Introduction from our Chair and Director Mary Glasgow and Juliet Harris, Chair and Director, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights)

At a pivotal moment for children’s human rights in Scotland, we are delighted to introduce Together’s Strategic Plan 2024-2032.  Our vision remains clear – that Scotland becomes a place where babies, children and young people can grow up in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding. Whilst we face huge opportunities and profound challenges in progressing this vision, our journey ahead is both clear and compelling.

Our strategic plan is a declaration of our commitment and a plan for action.  Our three strategic priorities reflect a holistic approach to achieving our vision, focusing on proactive measures, responsive actions, and building the strength of the children’s rights community to ensure the rights of every baby, child and young person in Scotland.  This reflects the need to transition from our successful campaign for the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law to a focused drive on its implementation. Across all our work, we will use the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 as a powerful tool with which we progress children’s rights.

Whilst the UNCRC serves as our north star, the 2023 Concluding Observations are our roadmap for action. With our Strategic Plan spanning the next eight years before Scotland next comes before the UN Committee, the 2023 Concluding Observations provide a clear ‘to-do’ list for Scotland. Having been shaped by Scotland’s children and young people and our extensive membership, they will guide our work right up to the UN review. With our ongoing campaign, #RightsOnTrack, we will support and hold decision-makers to account in delivering the ‘revolution in children’s rights’ we aspire to. 

We are filled with gratitude for the relentless energy and passion of our members, our team, and, most importantly, the children and young people who stand at the heart of our mission. Their insights and experience will lead us at every step of our journey.  

We would like to thank everyone who has supported Together over the past 25 years and got us to this stage.  With a ‘to do’ list from the UN Committee and the power of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024, Together commits to work tirelessly to ensure that rights are not only recognised in law but become a lived reality for all babies, children and young people in Scotland  – that Scotland becomes a place where all babies, children and young people can grow up in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding.

With heartfelt thanks and anticipation,

Mary Glasgow and Juliet Harris

Chair and Director, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights)

Strategic Plan 2024 – 2032

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