A trained lawyer, he had a "Damascus Road experience" when he saw a job advert for an assistant children's reporter in 1985 and felt like he was being "smacked across the head".
"I had a law background but from a very early stage I didn't see myself as a lawyer in private practice," he says. "I wanted to get into public service and use my legal training in some way."
Miller has been principal reporter at the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration since it came into being in 1996. Much has changed since then, he says, particularly the political environment in which he and his staff operate. "It's hard to credit this now, but back then it was hard to get space to get noticed politically," he explains. "Youth crime was not a big news story, apart from the occasional ad-hoc story, and antisocial behaviour wasn't a big story publicly or politically."
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