Health and social care

Officer 16 June 2020 Read our statement on human rights in care homes 14 July 2020 Briefing: Care homes and human rights during COVID-19 sets out the human rights framework as it applies to the issues that have arisen in the care homes News article: Briefing: Care homes and human rights during... Advisory Group 6 October 2020 Report into human rights affected by changes to social care: COVID-19, Social Care and Human Rights: Impact Monitoring Report Easy read version (PDF): How has Tuesday 09 May 2023

Additional publications and resources

Briefing: Climate Justice and Human Rights in Scotland (June 2014) ... Commission welcomes UN Human Rights Council recognition of the right to a healthy Environment 08 Oct 2021 Peaceful protest (2021) - joint written statement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission Commission welcomes green recovery call for human rights based approach 17 Nov 2020... Transition Commission (by ASL Reference Group) July 2020 Briefing: Human Rights Tuesday 02 November 2021

Local advice and advocacy services

In 2024, we jointly commissioned research with the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS) to map the landscape in order to gain a better understanding of the availability, distribution, and focus of services offering human rights-related advice and advocacy in Scotland. We used our research findings to create the two functional maps below which chart advice and advocacy services across a range of human rights-related issues. Thursday 08 January 2026

Intro

The Commission  works on a wide range of human rights issues that affect people in Scotland. These pages give more details of projects that the Commission has worked on across different areas. These projects give insight into the realisation of rights in practice in Scottish society.   Thursday 16 July 2020

Inquiry Report - Regulation of Care for Older People

The Scottish Human Rights Commission welcomes the Inquiry Report of the Health and Sport Committee into the Regulation of Care for Older People and the Scottish Government’s response.  The Committee.... Of particular importance to the Commission is that the Committee recognises that a human rights framework is essential for the delivery of quality care and recommends that a review of the National Care Standards embeds equality and human rights for service users. Read the submission which gives observations Sunday 19 June 2016