Engaging with children and young people
Guidance – Decision-making: children and young people’s participation – gov.scot – How to involve children and young people in decision-making.
Children’s Rights and Placemaking in Scotland (improvementservice.org.uk) A children’s rights approach to place and placemaking and considers how children’s rights can be realised through placed-based approaches. It pulls together a range of key policy areas important to placemaking and identifies how place makers can consider children’s rights in their work. A considerations of children’s rights and wellbeing in planning positively contributing to Scotland’s National Outcomes, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and community wellbeing.
Scotland’s Young People Manifesto – Scottish Youth Parliament (syp.org.uk) – Manifesto designed to be used by young people, decision-makers and others to find out what issues are most important to Scotland’s young people and the recommendations they’ve made to improve young people’s lives.
7 Golden rules for participation – The Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (cypcs.org.uk) – The 7 Golden Rules for Participation are a set of principles that anyone working with children and young people can use. They inform adults what children and young people’s participation should feel like.
They were developed through consultation with children and young people and research with professional adults reflecting the knowledge and experience of those working to promote participation.
They can help adults:
- understand what the United Nations means by participation, and
- understand what they should do when helping children and young people take part in decision-making.
They can also help children and young people learn about their participation rights under Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Home – Scottish Youth Parliament (syp.org.uk) The democratically elected voice of Scotland’s young people
Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (non-statutory guidance)
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) – is an international human rights treaty that grants all children and young people a comprehensive set of rights.
Participation guidance
Participation handbook – gov.scot – A guide to good practice in participation work across Scottish Government. It provides information about participatory methods and when to use them, the development of an effective participation strategy, and signposts to further resources.
Planning with People – community engagement and participation guidance – Planning with People sets out the responsibilities NHS boards, local authorities and Integration Joint Boards have to community engagement when health and social care services are being planned, or when changes to services are being considered and supports them to involve people meaningfully.
Fairer Scotland Duty: The Fairer Scotland Duty: Guidance for Public Bodies (www.gov.scot)
Environmental assessments
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) – Environmental assessment – gov.scot – In Scotland, public bodies and private companies operating in a public character, such as utility companies, are required to assess, consult on, and monitor the likely impacts their plans, programmes and strategies will have on the environment. This process is known as Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
SEA helps to better protect the environment, aims to ensure that any development is sustainable, and increases opportunities for public participation in decision-making. It ensures that expert views are sought at various points in the preparation process from the public and the consultation authorities.
Consumer duty
Consumer Duty
Island communities
Equalities
- Guidance on asking equalities monitoring questions
- Detailed guidance: Assessing impact and the equality duty: an eight step guide | EHRC (equalityhumanrights.com)
- Assessing impact and the Public Sector Equality Duty: Scotland | EHRC (equalityhumanrights.com) also available for download at: Assessing impact and the Public Sector Equality Duty (live.com)