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Beth Mackay MSYP: My experience on the UK Youth Select Committee 2024

Between September 2024 and March 2025, Beth Mackay MSYP (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) represented Scotland on the UK Youth Select…

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    Another week of let-downs show education review must lead to reform

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    The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP, today responded to the findings of Professor Ken Muir’s report…

    #Education, #UNCRC
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    Cabinet to hear directly from children and young people

    Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYPs) [1] and Children’s Parliament (MCPs) [2] are today meeting with the First Minister…

    #Cabinet, #UNCRC
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    Engaging with young people to improve mental health services

    Mental health and wellbeing effect all young people in Scotland, and it is high on many MSYP’s agendas. In December…

    #Mental Health
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    Standing up for young people’s rights in education

    Assessments in Scottish education are, for the third year in a row, taking place in a climate of uncertainty. This…

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    New MSYPs elected

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    The results of the 2021 Scottish Youth Parliament elections have now been finalised and the MSYPs for 2021-2023 term have…

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    Young people’s voices to play key role in the Scottish Parliament

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    A renewed commitment for young people to play a key role in Scottish politics has been made today by the…

    #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    Polls close for the 2021 SYP elections

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    The 2021 Scottish Youth Parliament elections polls have now closed. The process started in May this year when over 700…

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    The Scottish Youth Parliament’s 2021 Elections Go Live!

    The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) elections are now live! That means from 8th to 21st November, Scotland’s young people have…

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    MSYPs reflect on youth participation at the Globe International Legislators’ Summit

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    Last Friday (29th October) MSYPs took part in The Moment, which saw elected representatives join children and young people from…

    #Climate Change, #Environment
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    MSYPs call for action to ensure public safety from “injection spiking”

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    There have been reports across Scotland of young people being ‘spiked’ through injections whilst out at nightclubs or other…

    #Equality, #Health and Wellbeing, #Justice
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    Raising young people’s voices at COP26

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    COP26 will be coming to Glasgow between 1st and 12th November. Here is Mollie McGoran MSYP, Trustee and Convener of…

    #COP26, #Environment, #Human Rights, #Participation
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    What can we do to tackle domestic abuse in Scotland?

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    T/W: This blog contains themes of domestic abuse and sexual assault. Earlier in the week, my first blog (which you…

    #Justice
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