Our practice guide, supporting volunteers to best respond to the needs of the youngest children entering the Children’s Hearings System.

This practice guide helps volunteers to support older children entering the Children’s Hearings System.

A guide to language use in the hearing room, based on language principles developed by the multi-partner Language Leaders group

Led by the Practice Team at CHS with input from the CHS community, the digital Practice and Procedure Manual (PPM) offers a detailed and comprehensive guide.

This document sets out the core competence framework for Panel Members.

The National Standards have been developed to provide a clear framework for practice across Children's Hearings Scotland.

This operating framework is a set of core expectations which set out the terms of the engagement and working relationship between Area Support Teams (ASTs) and Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (CHS) Localities as seen by the Principal Reporter and the National Convener.

We value feedback and use information from them to help us improve our services. Our Complaints Handling Procedure will take you through the stages of a complaint, and answers frequently asked questions

There are a few common acronyms and jargon phrases you might come across within the children's hearings system and here at Children's Hearings Scotland. In this document you can find a few of these, explained.

This is an overview of the Children’s Hearings System for people who are in the process of joining the Children’s Panel