Meet Tam
Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People is Tam Baillie.
Tam's job is to help you understand your rights and to make sure those rights are respected.
Alongside the rest of the SCCYP team, Tam is responsible for helping to make the lives of you, your friends, your brothers and sisters, and all young people in Scotland as safe and happy as possible.
He will do this in a few ways:
- By listening to you
- By asking people in power - like Members of the Scottish Parliament - to think about how new laws might affect you
- By helping you learn more about your rights
- By speaking out if children and young people are not getting a fair deal
Choosing the Commissioner
Since the Commissioner works for you and all children and young people in Scotland it was only fair that young people have a say in who gets the job.
Children and young people from across the country helped to choose Tam by interviewing him and asking lots of questions about what he was going to do to help young people know more about their rights.
Now you can help Tam out by writing to him and letting him now what you think could be changed to improve the lives of young people in Scotland. It's dead easy to talk to Tam.