Scotland is protecting and empowering its most valuable assets – it’s children. While other countries – including Bangladesh – stand on the sidelines gaping and chanting that their children are their most valuable assets, Scotland has gone beyond the hollow political headline-grabbing rhetoric.

In 2020, Scotland gave a thistle sting to Britain’s four-nation union by becoming the first to outlaw corporal punishment to its children in all settings. Now it’s becoming the first to incorporate a UN charter on children’s rights into law.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Bill comes into force next Tuesday and requires all of Scotland’s public authorities, including the government and police, to seek to protect children and young people’s rights, to consider them when making policy decisions and make it unlawful for them to contravene UNCRC requirements. It also allows children to use........

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