The 72,000-a-year job of children's commissioner is an initial five-year fixed term appointment with the possibility of a five-year extension. The commissioner will have to report at least once a year to the Scottish Parliament. The Westminster Government announced plans last September to appoint a children's commissioner for England in its Green paper, Every Child Matters. There has been a children's commissioner in Wales since May 2000 when Peter Clarke took up the position. Northern Ireland followed last October by appointing Nigel Williams in a post believed to have the widest range of powers of any commissioner for children in the world. Just before Christmas the Republic of Ireland announced the appointment of its first-ever ombudsman for children.
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