How to do the CRWIAs The Right Way – A young people’s guide to doing Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessments
What is a CRWIA?
CRWIA stands for Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment. CRWIAs are a proactive tool through which decision makers can assess and predict the potential impacts that a proposed policy, decision or project might have on children and young people’s rights.
What is a CRIE?
CRIE stands for Children’s Rights Impact Evaluation. CRIEs are an evaluation tool through which decision makers can evaluate the actual impacts and effects that a policy, decision or project had on children and young people’s rights in Scotland.
Why are they important?
CRWIAs are a proactive tool that can help identify changes that can be made to improve potential policies, decisions or projects to ensure they better uphold and advance young people’s rights. When done correctly, this will lead to better, more ambitious policies, decisions and projects as young people’s voices and lived experiences will be present throughout.
Following the passing of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024, it is now mandatory for the Scottish Ministers to complete CRWIAs. However, it is good practice for organisations and charities to do so too.
How to use this guide?
How to do CRWIAs The Right Way is a guide to support and challenge decision makers completing CRWIAs to do so in a way that advances young people’s rights in Scotland. It not intended to be a practical step-by-step guide to carrying out your CRWIA but rather a tool to support you to make your CRWIA process more ambitious and ensure that young people’s voices and lived experiences are heard throughout.