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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…

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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 2023: Right to Food

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    At the Annual Children and Young People’s Executive Takeover 2023, Omar Taher MSYP and Millie Wright MSYP gave a speech…

    #Campaigns, #Executive Takeover, #Right to Food, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    #ExecutiveTakeover 2023: Youth work

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    At the Annual Children and Young People’s Executive Takeover 2023, Alannah Logue MSYP and Mollie McGoran MSYP gave a…

    #Executive Takeover, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #Youth Work
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    #ExecutiveTakeover 2023: UNCRC in Scotland

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    At the Annual Children and Young People’s Executive Takeover 2023, Isla Grant MSYP and Crisantos Ike MSYP gave a…

    #Executive Takeover, #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    #ExecutiveTakeover 2023: Climate Crisis

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    At the Annual Children and Young People’s Executive Takeover 2023, Tamsin Gold MSYP and Alasdair Marshall MSYP gave a…

    #Climate Change, #Climate Crisis, #Executive Takeover, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Why young people need to learn about trade unions

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    By Finlay McIlwraith MSYP and Fraser Jarvis MSYP What does a trade union do? It’s OK if you…

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    Combining forces with Forces Children Scotland

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    Forces Children Scotland has became the latest Associate National Voluntary Organisation to join the Scottish Youth Parliament. The announcement…

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    Equal marriage 10 years on: Reflecting on the past and hoping for the future

    MSYPs and staff at Pride

    This month is LGBT History Month – I never learned about the Stonewall riots in school. I never learned that…

    #Equality, #Human Rights, #LGBT, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    It’s Giving Evidence: Our Trip to London

    MSYPs and the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee. Back row: Alan Brown MP, David Duguid MP, Wendy Chamberlain MP, Pete Wishart MP, Douglas Ross MP and Michael Shanks MP. Front row: Mollie McGoran, Ellie Craig MSYP, Olivia Brown MSYP, Abbie Wright and Ewan Knight MSYP.

    Last week, on Monday 5th February, several of SYP’s representatives – Mollie McGoran, Ellie Craig, Olivia Brown, Abbie Wright and…

    #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UK Parliament, #UNCRC
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    SYP Elections 2023 results

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    SYP’s new 2023-Membership officially began on Thursday 1st February 2024! Most of our newly elected MSYPs are now in their…

    #Elections, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Year in Review 2023

    MSYPs in Orkney at SYP's 79th National Sitting with their hands in the air

    Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament have been busy throughout 2023 – we’ve held National Sittings in Orkney and Aberdeen,…

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    UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill passed by the Scottish Parliament

    Mollie McGoran MSYP speaking on stage at SYP77

    Today, MSPs in the Scottish Parliament voted to pass the UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill following years of campaigning by children,…

    #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill – Policy Briefing

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    SYP sent the Policy Briefing below to Members of the Scottish Parliament ahead of the UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill reconsideration…

    #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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