The children's rights impact assessment model includes a series ofquestions that can be used to check children and young people have beenproperly consulted before a decision is made.
Gillian Munro, information officer for the commissioner, said: "We hopeto promote this to the Scottish Executive and local authorities - wehope it will encourage policy makers to identify the impact (of theirpolicies).
Northern Ireland's children's commissioner Barney McNeany plans to adaptthe toolkit. Meanwhile, England's children's commissioner AlAynsley-Green is currently developing a method of screeningparliamentary Bills to analyse their impact on children and youngpeople.
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