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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...

The Glasgow Children’s Hearings Improvement Partnership marked its first anniversary with a gathering of partners to review the first 12 months of operation.Key partners from across the city got together on Wednesday 30 January to look back on the year and also to...

The Scottish Government has published a discussion paper and is inviting comments on thoughts on a number of issues relating mainly to supporting children under 12 attending investigative interviews under the Age of Criminal Responsibility (S) Bill, but also touching...

A briefing sheet has been published giving some highlights of the latest CHIP meeting and also some other work which is ongoing. You can read the briefing sheet following the meeting on 10 December here. This is our third quarterly briefing following a meeting. The...