Children’s Rights – Working together for change

Our 2025/2026 centre improvement plan recognised Children’s Right as a priority.

Since August we have been reflecting on which rights best represent our centre vision, values, aims and ethos. We have also considered the way we in which already support children and families within our setting and how to build on these.

The articles we feel most reflected our practice, will be the first to be introduce and explored by our children, creating opportunity to share this journey with you as our families.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) includes many important articles.

We have chosen the following 4 to begin our introduction as focus areas within centre.

• Article 24 – The Right to Be Healthy

• Article 12 – The Right To Be Heard

• Article 28 – The Right to Education

• Article 31 – The Right to Play

Over the coming months, we will be gradually introducing these rights to the children in age-appropriate and meaningful ways. We look forward to sharing updates, activities, and information with you as this journey continues.

Thank you for supporting us as we work together to ensure children’s rights at the heart of everything we do.

What are Children’s Rights?

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026

What are Children’s Rights?

Children’s rights are the basic rights and freedoms that every child is entitled to regardless of race, religion or abilities. These rights are set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and are designed to ensure that all children are safe, healthy, listened to; able to grow, learn, and thrive.

Children’s rights help guide how adults make decisions that affect children, placing their wellbeing, voice and best interests at the heart of everything we do.

September 8, 2024September 25, 2024

Centre Improvement Plan

What Influences our Priorities

National Improvement Framework & Local Authority Service Plans

The National Improvement Framework (NIF) and Improvement Plan sets out the vision and priorities for Scottish education that have been agreed across the system, and the national improvement activity that needs to be undertaken to help deliver those key priorities. This complements the ongoing implementation of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), and Developing the Young Workforce (DYW), which are the three supporting pillars of the Scottish education system.

´The local authority uses the NIF to inform a local plan which is updated annually.

How Good is our Early Learning and Childcare & Care Inspectorate Quality Framework for daycare of children, childminding and school-aged children.

´We use ‘How good is our Early Learning and Childcare’ and Care inspectorate indicators to evaluate our capacity for improvement in centre. Challenge questions support self evaluation and quality assurance.

2023 – 2024 Centre Improvement Plan

´The evaluation process of the previous year’s Centre Improvement Plan often flags areas in which can be identified as an area of priority for the following or naturally lead us into an area for improvement focus. Our accomplishments from this year are published in our CP EYC Standards Quality Report 2023-24

To read this years improvement plan in full click on the link below

Colquhoun Park Centre Improvement Plan 2024-25