Hearing room language animation wins gold award
Our four language principles
Alongside Articulate, CHS and SCRA launched language guides to support the participants in hearings: CHS’s Language in the hearing room and SCRA’s Language that Cares. Both are based on four principles of language agreed upon by the Language Leaders: that language should be personalised, be balanced, be non-stigmatising and should make the child feel involved in their hearing.
The guides are not lists of words to avoid. Instead, they are learning tools supporting adults to consider the words they use to empower children and young people to fully take part in their hearings.
Articulate is now also used in online training delivered to education staff by Education Scotland, and to multi-agency staff by NHS Education for Scotland.
“This is excellent news. The real highlight of this work is the way Braw Talent, CHS, and SCRA worked with young people from OHOV to co-produce this animation. There was a real sense of partnership working and shared endeavour throughout the production.
The language used in children’s hearings can have a lasting impact on children and is one practice area that young people ask us to prioritise. The animation is so powerful, and the young people should be so proud of this award. Without their participation this would not have been possible.”
– Stephen Bermingham, Practice and Standards Manager, Children’s Hearings Scotland
