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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Introducing a new guide on the role of solicitors in children’s hearings. Co-produced with hearings-experienced young people, it highlights best practice and children’s rights. Read the guide and top tips here: www.chip-partnership.co.uk/wp-content/u... www.chip-partnership.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

OHOV board member, Andrew James, delivered a powerful input to future teachers, social workers and speech therapists at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social today, sharing with them key messages about what children with care experience need from those that support them #education

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A young man standing at a desk with a screen behind him. The text on the screen reads “High Expectations. Don’t just expect children in care not to have many qualities. They might need your help to find their qualities”.

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

And finally, our last post for 2025 Wrapped is a celebration of our Rise Up conference; an event planned and delivered by the fabulous board members of OHOV. We launched our guide, Seeing Beyond the Surface, and spoke to adults about what matters most to children and young people in the care system

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Day 4 – OHOV board members with experience of hearings, solicitors, CHS, SCRA, Clan ChildLaw, Civil Legal Assistance Office, Children 1st and advocacy providers worked together to create a good practice guide for solicitors. You can read the top tips here: www.ohov.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Day 3 of OHOV 2025 Wrapped! We created an online interactive guide called Seeing Beyond the Surface. The guide features videos, artwork, poetry, & voice recordings gathered from our research with children & young people, along with lots of quotes. You can visit our guide here: www.ohov.co.uk/guide/

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

To research what children and young people need from the professionals in their lives we spoke to groups of young people from all over Scotland. To ensure these conversations were safe & supportive we did trauma informed training & created a trauma informed guide: www.ohov.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Day 1 of OHOV's 2025 Unwrapped - Aviemore! In February we had a great weekend in Aviemore where we combined work with ice skating, archery, and dinner (not all at once). During the weekend we recorded content for our guide and started planning our conference. Excited for the next one in March 2026!

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

That's a wrap! 🎬As we come to the end of another year with our fantastic board members we'd like to share a daily snapshot of some of our projects from 2025. Check in each day next week to see what OHOV have been working on this year!

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Scottish Children's Reporter Administration @childrensreporter.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

A HUGE thank you to @ohov.bsky.social for coming along to our Hearings centre in Glasgow yesterday to present Seeing Beyond the Surface to staff. Colleagues tuned in virtually to hear about your new, interactive guide exploring what children and young people wish all adults knew. #KeepThePromise

Young people in one of our new hearing centres in Glasgow

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Join us on 10th December, 1-2 pm, to hear about a new guide on the key role solicitors play in children’s hearings, co-produced by hearings experienced young people, solicitors and other adults involved in hearings- www.eventbrite.com/e/good-pract...

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Strong foundations in research
Resource for solicitors and other adults in hearings
Improve the experience of children and families
Top Tips and the longer guide

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We're looking forward to presenting a chapter from our new guide for adults #SeeingBeyondTheSurface at the Kibble conference today. Three of our board members will explore the theme of 'support' through an interactive workshop. Not seen the guide yet? Have a look: www.ohov.co.uk/guide/

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Have you seen our new guide? #SeeingBeyondTheSurface explores what matters most to children & young people in the care they receive. Structured under 6 themes and brought to life through creative expressions from young people across Scotland, it's well worth a read: www.ohov.co.uk/guide/

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We're really looking forward to delivering a workshop at the @kibblegroup Annual Conference on the 24th November! Details below: www.kibble.org/kibble-annua...

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

One of the the best parts of our #RiseUp event was having our young people's friends, families, teachers, and partners in the audience, celebrating their hard work alongside us. We loved this video created by the partner of board member Abbie during the event! 😍 #SeeingBeyondTheSurface

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Young people share expertise and care experience; leaders demonstrate they are truly listening at #RiseUp this week. Be part of this change across Scotland by immersing yourself in the young people's own guide for adults www.ohov.co.uk/guide/ @thepromise.scot @socworkscot.bsky.social

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

All the gang @ohov.bsky.social celebrating the wrap up of an amazing day- change makers with lived experience, skilled influencers and storytellers, some good laughs AND the launch of a new guide for all adults #BeyondTheSurface 👉https://www.ohov.co.uk/guide/ Boom 🤯

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

And they did it with style! 🎤🙌

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#BeyondTheSurface brings to life what children and young people with care experience wish all adults knew. We look forward to launching this guide and celebrating the hard work of our incredible board members & the young people they worked with. Two sleeps until our #RiseUp event! We can't wait 🎉

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

💫5 days to go until we launch our #SeeingBeyondTheSurface guide for adults! OHOV board members will creatively explore the guide's six themes with delegates at our #RiseUp event on Wednesday, through spoken word, poetry, art, quotes, video, voice recordings, and more. We can't wait! 🌟

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

With just under a week to go until OHOV's #RiseUp celebratory event, young people share their hopes for the day in this video At the event we'll launch our online interactive guide, 'Seeing Beyond The Surface' - a creative exploration of thing things young people wish all adults knew.

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

3 board members joined the Experts by Experience group at CHS for a day in Parliament. They met with Natalie Don-Innes - Minister for Children, and were given a tour of the Parliament before watching First Minister’s Questions. Read more here: www.ohov.co.uk/2025/10/08/o...

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We were delighted to be invited back to @unistrathclyde.bsky.social this year to speak to education students. Board members Ash and Andrew delivered a presentation on what educators can do to support pupils with care experience. Thanks for having us, Strathclyde!

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

OHOV have created a trauma informed guide for all adults who are working with young people in any capacity. Written in the words of our young people, the guide provides examples of trauma informed practice and highlights why this is important. Have a read of it here: www.ohov.co.uk/2025/08/07/y...

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We've been travelling round the country meeting with groups of young people to chat about how professionals support care experienced children. We're gathering insights for an online guide, which will feature written work, poetry, art, videos & audio created by young people. Watch this space!

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Children First @childrenfirst.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

👂 Do you care about children’s rights? Why not become a Safeguarder and help make sure young voices are heard in hearings and court. 🧡 No qualifications needed—just empathy, integrity, and a commitment to children. Find out more 👇 🔗 childrenfirst.org.uk/.../become-a-safeguarder

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Delighted to hear that @brawtalent.org won a gold award at the Scottish Design Awards for the 'Articulate' animation. www.ohov.co.uk/2025/07/01/a... Huge thanks to the team at Braw Talent for creating such a genuine co-productive relationship w/ the young people at OHOV ❤️

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Animation wins gold award! - Our Hearings, Our Voice

We have some exciting news to share! Articulate Animation won a Gold Award at the Scottish Design Awards.

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We had a fab board meeting planning a trauma informed approach to research w/youth groups across Scotland. Our findings will be published in an interactive guide for professionals, based around 6 themes: privacy, relationships, support, participation, seeing potential without judgement, & language.

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We had a fantastic day at the #CiSAC25 conference. OHOV board members Ciara & Ash facilitated an interactive workshop called 'Is That Really All I Am?', exploring the impact of labelling children & young people in the Children's Hearings System. Thanks for having us @childreninscotland.bsky.social

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

On Saturday I was privileged to attend the Creativity & Care festival in Inverness, celebrating the creativity of an incredible group of young people. I learned more about the fantastic work of Moniack Mhor, enjoyed some artwork, and was inspired by the poetry and music of the talented young people

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Issue 5 of VOICE magazine is now on its way to Children’s Hearings Centres across Scotland! This issue includes: 🍰 A fun cupcake recipe 🧑‍🏫 Tips for teachers supporting care-experienced pupils 🎨 Inspiring poems & artwork from the young people at OHOV A huge well done to all the young people at OHOV!

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

OHOV had a brilliant board meeting at the Articulate Hub in Glasgow on Friday. We welcomed two new board members, Jamie and Neil, and enjoyed getting to know them. Among other work, we planned our approach to an exciting upcoming project that involves research with children. Watch this space!

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

OHOV board members Andrew, Ciara & Zodie worked on research looking at the impact of the pandemic, with researchers from @childrensreporter.bsky.social . The findings have now been published in an edited book: “Care and Coronavirus: Perspectives on Childhood, Youth and Family”

A black and white book illustration of a young person sitting on an office chair looking depressed. There's a laptop next to them and a black ghoul in the background. There is a mic muted sign and an open padlock sign signifying the young person's lack of privacy and voice

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Physical spaces are so important for children: helping them feel safe, regulated and involved in decisions about their lives. @childrensreporter.bsky.social asked OHOV board members, Dylan & Lewis, to help them improve their local Children’s Hearings Centre. They had plenty to say! 🗣️

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Board member Andrew has written a blog describing what care experienced children need from educational professionals who are supporting them. The blog explores themes of support, stigma, language, and more. Read here: www.ohov.co.uk/2025/03/13/b...

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Gordon from OHOV attended #TheRightStart conference run by @starcatchersuk.bsky.social , @together-sacr.bsky.social and Children in Scotland. All children have agency and influence the world, regardless of age. The onus is on adults to create environments where all children are heard!

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Great to see board member Lisa at the Oversight Board Parliamentary reception last night. Some really powerful speeches reinforcing Scotland's commitment to #keepthepromise

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Today board member Ash confidently presented to education staff at a Renfrewshire school in-service day. Ash spoke to teachers about what they can do to help support pupils with care experience, under the themes of privacy, pastoral support, behaviour, labelling, high expectations, and stigma.

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Privacy, pastoral support, behaviour, labelling, high expectations, stigma

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Talented board member Ash wrote this beautiful poem, 'Hidden Stars, Silent Paws' to explore the theme of 'potential'. Ash is a budding artist and also created this striking illustration to go with her poem. ❤️

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We're excited to welcome THREE new board members to OHOV! We're so looking forward to working with 'Harry', 'Hamilton', and 'The Terminator', who are just as passionate as we are about improving the Children's Hearings System for children in Scotland. Welcome! ❤️

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Our Hearings Our Voice @ohov.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

OHOV had a fantastic weekend in Aviemore with the perfect mix of friendship, fun, and planning for future projects. Some exciting work ahead of us - watch this space! #participation #friendship

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