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The Scottish Budget: Key Impacts for Young People – by Jamail Umar MSYP

On 13 January, the Scottish Government set out the Scottish Budget. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, Shona…

#Education, #Equality, #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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Jamail Umar, Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for Dundee East, attending the latest Cabinet Takeover in November 2025
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    #ExecutiveTakeover 2024: End gender-based violence

    Image of MSYP and MCPs in a meeting room at St Andrew's House for 2024's Executive Takeover.

    At the Annual Children and Young People’s Executive Takeover 2024, Shafa Waqas MSYP and Skye Allan MSYP gave a speech to…

    #Environment, #Equality, #Gender-based violence, #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    August 2024 newsletter

    Screenshot of SYP's August 2024 partners and stakeholders newsletter, which is available to read at: mailchi.mp/syp/august-2024.

    We’ve launched an updated newsletter to keep our partners and stakeholders informed by work of MSYPs across the country! Our…

    #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Support and solidarity for those impacted by violence

    Content warning: this article references racism and acts of violence. SYP stand in solidarity with those impacted by violence Young…

    #Equality, #Human Rights
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    Scottish Government Executive Team hear the voices of children and young people

    MSYPs and MCPs with the Scottish Government Executive Team in the media briefing room at St Andrew's House, the headquarters of the Scottish Government, in Edinburgh.

    Seven Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament joined Members of the Children’s Parliament in raising the voices of their peers…

    #Executive Takeover, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act comes into force

    Today, Tuesday 16 July 2024, marks the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act moving to commencement phase. This is when decision makers…

    #Campaigns, #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    MSYPs select new national campaigns

    Image of an MSYP sitting at a table taking part in a panel discussion at an event. Orange tint overlaid with white polka dots in corners.

    Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament have voted to select their three new national campaigns for the next two years.

    #Campaigns, #Gender-based violence, #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #Youth Work
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    Getting ready for UNCRC implementation in Shetland

    Shetland MSYPs holding up a Shetland flag against a SYP pop-up banner

    By Joe Smith and Bertie Summers, MSYPs for Shetland Islands We both recently had the enormous pleasure of…

    #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    Bold action required to tackle the climate emergency

    SYP has long recognised the impacts of climate change as a global climate emergency. To tackle that climate emergency we…

    #Climate Change, #Climate Crisis, #Environment, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Scottish Government announce £30 million increase in mental health funding following youth-led evaluation of services

    The Scottish Government yesterday announced £30 million will be put into mental health funding, drawing on the findings of Scottish…

    #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Statement on the British Youth Council

    British Youth Council logo on a red background and SYP logo on a blue background.

    Commenting on the closure of the British Youth Council, Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, Mollie McGoran MSYP, said:…

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    Guardianship Scotland joins SYP as an Associate National Voluntary Organisation

    Young people from the Guardianship Scotland project in the Scottish Parliament chamber

    Guardianship Scotland is a specialist statutory service providing Independent Child Trafficking Guardians (ICTG) to all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, victims of…

    #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    My experience on the UK Youth Select Committee 2023

    Graphic with a dark green background. Image of Isla Grant MSYP standing on left with a white border. British Youth Council Youth Select Committee logo in a circle in the middle. Picture of Big Ben in London in the sunshine on the right.

    In August and September 2023, I was offered the exciting opportunity to go to UK Parliament in London and sit…

    #BYC, #Mental Health, #Right to Food, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UKYP, #UNCRC, #YSC
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