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The minute of the CHIP meeting on Monday 9 September 2019 is now available. You can view it here. This meeting included a workshop discussion on the recently published research report on Home Compulsory Supervision Orders which you can view here.

New learning materials are now available on the CHIP website. You can view them here. Piloted before being launched, the three learning packages can work on their own, or can be used together as a really powerful tool for transformational change. The packages - ‘Mock...

A report looking at Better Hearings activity over the past 12 months has been published today. The Children’s Hearings Improvement Partnership (CHIP) has published a Better Hearings Progress Report. You can view the report here. The report has been published during...

The Children's Hearings Improvement Partnership (CHIP) has published the latest edition of its quarterly briefing sheet. You can view the autumn edition here. This issue includes the highlights of a CHIP discussion on the Home Compulsory Supervision Orders research...

The minutes from the CHIP meeting on 10 June 2019 are now available. You can view them here. The June meeting included an update on Better Hearings and Learning and Development.

The CHIP has published its quarterly briefing sheet. It includes an update on Better Hearings. It also includes the minutes from the March meeting. You can view the summer edition here.The next one will be issued later this autumn. If you have any questions, please...

The Scottish Government has published a Summary Report on Responses to the Advocacy Discussion Document which was issued earlier this year. The Scottish Government had been keen to get views on: i) views on certain aspects of Children’s Hearings Advocacy and ii) on...

Scottish Government Ministers have announced the convening of an advisory group looking at raising the age of criminal responsibility. You can read more on the Scottish Government website.  

On 17 December the Scottish Government hosted the first CHIP seminar, at Victoria Quay, Edinburgh. The seminar focussed on research published by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) in January 2018 – ‘Complexity in the lives of looked after children...

The minutes of the CHIP meeting held on 10 December 2018 are now available. You can view them here. They were approved at the recent meeting on 4 March. The December meeting heard an update from the Care Review regarding Stop Go discussions and also received a...