2020 Annual Report of the Children’s Tribunal System Published The Convenor and Tribunal Board has today published the Annual Report of the Children’s Convenor and the President of the Child, Youth and Community Tribunal (CYCT) for 2020.

La Grande Rue Road, St Martins will be closing in phases from 19th July 2021 until 3rd September 2021. During this time, we ask service users to enter Briarwood from the Co-operative Supermarket side. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. If you have any queries, please call us on 01481 223290.

Now that we have moved to Stage 3 of exit from lockdown we have returned to holding face to face Hearings and Convenor Meetings at our office at Briarwood.

Stage 2 of Exit from Lockdown: Since the Bailiwick re-entered lockdown in January 2021 we have been holding Hearings and Convenor Meetings remotely. In view of the limited space within our offices at Briarwood we have decided to continue with these arrangements during Stage 2.

Joint Statement to Partners from the Convenor and President 25th January 2021: Following the change in circumstances announced on Saturday 23rd January 2021 by the Director of Public Health our Offices at Briarwood are now closed to the public and almost all our staff and Tribunal members are undertaking their roles from home.

Karen Brady, Children’s Convenor reflects on the news that the UNCRC has been extended to the Bailiwick. “This is a significant milestone in ensuring children’s rights are respected and protected in the Bailiwick. The UNCRC emphasises that, as well as having the same human rights as adults, children have special needs and vulnerabilities that we must recognise and protect. We are fortunate in the Bailiwick that some of these rights are embedded in our laws and in the welfare principles that underpin how we carry out our roles. The UNCRC however reminds us of our collective responsibility to promote and protect the full range of rights that children are entitled to expect and gives our young people a set of standards on which they can hold us to account. It is for all of us now to ensure that we are taking steps to respect children’s rights in all our decisions and actions and to ensure that the language of rights is reflected in our organisational vocabularies and policies.”