Nursery World - Early years sector gathers 'to listen'

Early years practitioners and childcare workers from all over Scotland attending a conference in Glasgow heard about the importance of listening to children and young people. At Kids Clubs Direct's annual conference, 'Involving children and young people', delegates heard from Kathleen Marshall, Scotland's recently appointed commissioner for children and young people, who outlined her new role in a film made for the event by FACT, a youth drama group from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. She said she wanted to talk to groups of children around the country and come up with 'a menu of issues' that were important to them and would form her policy agenda for the next two years.

At Kids Clubs Direct's annual conference, 'Involving children and young people', delegates heard from Kathleen Marshall, Scotland's recently appointed commissioner for children and young people, who outlined her new role in a film made for the event by FACT, a youth drama group from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. She said she wanted to talk to groups of children around the country and come up with 'a menu of issues' that were important to them and would form her policy agenda for the next two years.

Maureen Verrall, head of the children and families division at the Scottish Executive, spoke about integrated services. She said the Executive would shortly be publishing its Integrated Early Years Strategy with the aim of 'putting children at the centre of a coherent system'.

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