The act will require all Scotland’s public authorities, including the government, 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 will also allow children and young people to use the courts to enforce their rights.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) sets out children’s rights relating to health and education, leisure and play, fair and equal treatment, protection from exploitation and the right to be heard.