Children’s Health Scotland – My Health, My Rights Charter

The My Health, My Rights Charter was created by children and young people living with health conditions in Scotland assisted by the Scottish charity Children’s Health Scotland. In no particular order, it shows their 10 most important health rights. They asked for them not to be numbered, as they are all equally important in their own right.

To create the charter, children and young people looked for inspiration from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Association of Children in Hospital Charter.

Children’s Health Scotland inform children and young people, parents and carers of their rights and responsibilities, where to access information and support and what they should expect from health service providers. 

They provide health and wellbeing support programmes directly to children and young people with health conditions and to Foster and Kinship Carers. 

To find out more please visit the Children’s Health Scotland website via: Children’s Health Scotland – Every child has the right to the best possible health