Participation

• Democracy Matters: public participation in 2024 and beyond

  13th May 2024 by Digital Engagement Team

  

  It has been an interesting and busy time for the Local Governance Review Team since the summer of 2023. Many events and conversations have taken place across Scotland exploring how decisions could be made by communities themselves. Now that the dust has settled, we wanted to share some highlights of the conversations we observed and...

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• Participation A to Z: accessibility

  12th April 2024 by Digital Engagement Team

  

  We are beginning a new A-Z series of posts. Each letter of the alphabet will cover a different topic in participation and public engagement. We hope you enjoy this mini-series, and without further ado, we’re kicking things off today with A for Accessibility!  What do we mean by accessibility?  When we talk about accessibility we...

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• Meet the Scottish Government Digital Engagement Team

  29th February 2024 by Digital Engagement Team

  

  Who are you and what do you do? Hi, I’m Finlay. I’m a digital engagement manager for the Scottish Government. We’re a small team of 3 but we work with our colleagues all across government to support good digital engagement with you, the public. What that means is we use digital tools like online surveys,...

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• A national conversation on local democracy and community power

  11th September 2023 by Local Governance Review

  

  Guest blog on the Local Governance Review's community engagement 'Democracy matters'

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• National Conversation on Dementia Strategy 

  11th November 2022 by Jen Swan

  Scotland’s new dementia strategy is currently being developed. I recently caught up with Aidan and Sandhra from the Dementia Policy Unit within Scottish Government. We discussed how they are involving lived experience and other experts in the development of this new strategy, and how you can get involved too!  

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