Delivered by Media Education in partnership with Health Rights Defenders
This powerful joint workshop brings together Media Education and Children’s Health Scotland’s Health Rights Defenders to explore a piece of media created by children and young people with lived experience of health conditions. Participants will hear directly about the creative process, the messages behind the media, and what meaningful participation really looks like when children and young people are supported to shape narratives about their lives, rights, and healthcare experiences. Designed for children, young people, parents/carers, and professionals, the session offers valuable insight into rightsrespecting, participatory practice and the impact of cocreation. Grounded in the UNCRC — particularly the right to be heard and taken seriously — this workshop highlights how creative media can amplify young people’s voices, influence understanding, and embed participation at the heart of health and wellbeing practice.
ABOUT Media Education
Media Education believe that sharing lived experience is the cornerstone for building bridges between people from all walks of life and organising an equal and equitable society. Their films and podcasts go on a journey alongside the people who make them. Some have sensitive content and are shown to a private audience – like a Parliamentary committee gathering evidence from voices of lived experience, or a team of social workers who need to walk in the shoes of people they work with. Other films and podcasts they make have public audiences and are designed to raise awareness and increase activism.
ABOUT Children’s Health Scotland’s Health Rights Defenders
Our Health Rights Defenders are a passionate group of children and young people aged 9–17 living with health conditions across Scotland. Children and young people have always informed the work of Children’s Health Scotland. Our Health Rights Defenders were officially formed in 2023, they came together with a shared mission: to shape a future where health rights are not only recognised but truly understood—by children, for children.
Inspired by the UNCRC and the EACH Charter, these young leaders wanted something more personal—rights that reflect their lived experiences and speak directly to the challenges and triumphs of growing up with a disability or health condition. That’s why they helped create the My Health, My Rights Charter, a powerful resource that puts their voices front and centre.
