Hannah Bussicott - Children's Legal Centre Manager
Hannah is the Manager of the Children’s Legal Centre Wales and is employed thanks to funding from the A B Charitable Trust, through Children’s Legal Centre Wales Ltd, incorporated in March 2025.
Hannah has led the development of the Children’s Legal Centre Wales since its inception in 2016. As the only dedicated Children’s Legal Centre in Wales, our work is driven by a commitment to ensuring that Welsh law upholds and advances children’s rights in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Our projects span policy advocacy and strategic litigation, education and engagement, the provision of legal information services, and the development of future lawyers, including through the Justice First Fellowship Scheme.
Dr Rhian Croke - Policy Advocacy & Strategic Litigation Lead
Rhian leads our Strategic Litigation and Policy Advocacy Project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Child rights strategic litigation (CRSL) – is defined by the Global Advancing Strategic Litigation Project (ACRSL) as: ‘litigation that seeks to bring about positive legal and social change in terms of children’s enjoyment of their rights, or in other terms, using the law strategically to achieve change for children.’
CRSL is increasingly used as a tool for realising children’s rights by different actors globally. The CLC Wales strengthens capacity for CRSL to promote the better realisation of children’s rights in Wales. We engage with lawyers and civil society to identify opportunities for policy and legislative reform and potential cases for CRSL.
Rhian Howells - Education and Engagement Lead
Rhian leads our Education and Engagement Project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
The aim of the Project is to develop a Wales-wide approach to young people’s (11-17 years) legal education on their human rights and the law as it affects them in Wales.
Initial consultation has been undertaken with children and young people and legal issues have been identified as topics for resources and child-friendly information development. These will be trialled in Autumn 2024. We look forward to sharing them with you.
