Participation
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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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“Seen, Heard, Included”: Putting the voices of disabled children and young people at the heart of the development of a National Transitions to Adulthood Strategy
24th November 2023 by Children's Rights Team
‘Transitions from school can be scary; change is a big thing to navigate, and knowing what it will entail is hard’ (Young Person contributing to the development of the National Transitions Strategy) One policy team in Scottish Government that has demonstrated a strong commitment to listening to young people’s voice is the Supporting Disabled Children...
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Involving young people in assessing funding applications
23rd November 2023 by Children's Rights Team
The Children’s Rights Unit have recently commissioned 8 new projects through their Innovation Fund and young people have been involved from the start! The fund was established to provide financial support for testing and implementing creative approaches to embedding children’s rights in public bodies. This blog focuses on how children and young people were involved...
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Happy World Children’s Day
20th November 2023 by Children's Rights Team
To mark World Children’s Day 2023 we invited young people from the Scottish Youth Parliament to ask Ms Don, the Minister for Children and Young People and Keeping the Promise, their questions about the work to embed children’s rights into Scots law.
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Message to children and young people from Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice
18th October 2023 by Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP
Update for children and young people from Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice on the progress Scottish Government are making to give legal protection for children's rights in Scotland. This includes your right to express your views on matters affecting you and for those views to be given due weight.
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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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A look back on the first Experts by Experience Panel of the Poverty and Inequality Commission
31st August 2023 by Munwar Hussain
This blog shares feedback that the Poverty and Inequality Commission have gathered from their experts by experience panel members.
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Message to children and young people from Minister for Children and Young People
16th March 2023 by Clare Haughey MSP - Minister for Children and Young People
To the Children and Young People of Scotland I wanted to say thank you to the children and young people from Scotland who are participating in an important event happening in Spring with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva. The group from Scotland – known as #TeamScotlandUN – have...
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Scotland’s suicide prevention strategy and action plan
17th January 2023 by Jen Swan
Scotland’s new suicide prevention strategy and action plan were published in 2022. We asked Dominic & Oliver from the Suicide Prevention Policy & Delivery Team to blog about how they developed these, and in particular how they engaged with a wide and varied range of people and organisations. Scotland’s new suicide prevention strategy and action...
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