The Scottish Social Services Council shared their approach to listening to people with real-life experience to make better decisions.  

In line with the SSSC Involving People strategy, they are committed to engaging with people of all ages. Thanks to support from stakeholders and networks, they have a wide range of opportunities to engage with people who have lived experience from all age groups, and we were delighted as part of this to be able to hear feedback from school aged children. Children gave feedback on the question what skills an adult taking care of them should have and gave answers such as that their carers should be patient, silly, kind and listen to them.  

The SSSC also created the Codes, Rights and Keeping the Promise resource to better support people who work with children and young people talk about their rights and the SSSC Codes of Practice.