Helen’s Experience

As an international student, the Scottish Child Law Centre was indeed an enjoyable experience. As a volunteer, I was allowed to sit on the training that usually takes place every Tuesday afternoon. So far, I have attended training pertaining to The Children’s Hearing System and the effects of the new Act; Data collection and Confidentiality of Children’s records; The Looked after Child and Sex and Children/Young Persons. These courses were in-depth and gave practical and functioning knowledge of the law as it relates to the rights of children and young persons.

It was galvanizing to work with people, who are committed to working, improving and ensuring the protection of the rights of children and young persons. I am glad that I was given the opportunity to work at the SCLC, and with the dedicated staff at SCLC. I am very happy that I was able to contribute in some small way, but the SCLC has definitely contributed more to my personal development.

Helen

Tweeting

Today I have been tweeting from the centre’s Twitter account. My tweets have been looking at children’s health and promoting a campaign to end the stigma regarding growing up in care. Twitter is really great to use because I can get instantaneous reaction to the issues I tweet about. It makes me really happy to see how many people care about children’s rights.

Twitter is also really exciting to use because it allows you can see what is happening in real time. As soon as I log on I can see charities across the world tweeting about the work they do to improve children’s rights. It is a great tool for learning about global efforts of which we are only a small part.

Make sure you follow us at @scotchildlaw and tweet us a ‘hello’!

Andrew

Welcome!

Hello!

Welcome to our new blog. This is where you can find out what our amazing volunteers do at the centre. We have local students who volunteer during term time and over the summer months we also have interns who work on specialist projects. We also have some local school pupils who come here for work experience.

On this blog our volunteers will try and give an account of what it is like to be a volunteer. Hopefully this will inspire more people to become SCLC volunteers and enable us to continue to promote the legal rights of young Scots.