Friends support new children’s rights bill

Bill aims to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scottish law

by Rebecca Hardy 11th September 2020

Quakers in Scotland are supporting a new bill to enshrine children’s rights into Scots law. Friends joined forty-nine other members of Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) in writing to MSPs to welcome the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill, which was launched as part of the Programme for Government 2020-21.