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    #CabinetTakeover 2024: Increase mental health training and education

    First Minister John Swinney speaking at the Annual Cabinet Meeting with Children and Young People in November 2024 with young people and other Ministers sat next to him

    In November 2024, Sophie Kerrigan MSYP and Skye Morgan MSYP gave a speech to the First Minister and…

    #Cabinet, #Campaigns, #Education, #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Children and young people prepare for annual Cabinet meeting

    Bird's eye view of St Andrew's House, the Scottish Government HQ, in Edinburgh.

    Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYPs) and the Children’s Parliament (MCPs) will today take part in the Annual Cabinet…

    #Cabinet, #Campaigns, #Gender-based violence, #Human Rights, #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC, #Youth Work
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    #ExecutiveTakeover 2024: Increase mental health training and education

    Image of Scottish Government Permanent Secretary John-Paul Marks, SYP Chair Ellie Craig MSYP and a Member of the Children's Parliament.

    At the Annual Children and Young People’s Executive Takeover 2024, Maya McCrae MSYP and Marianna Medina MSYP gave a speech…

    #Campaigns, #Executive Takeover, #Mental Health, #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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    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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    My experience on the UK Youth Select Committee

    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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    #CabinetTakeover 2023: Bereavement Support

    Blue and orange graphic with an image of Ellie Craig MSYP with text that reads 'Bereavement Support. #CabinetTakeover'. SYP logo in top left.

    In June of this year, I gave a speech on bereavement support for young people at the annual joint Cabinet…

    #Cabinet, #Education, #Health and Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Taking a youth-led approach to evaluating community based mental health services

    Graphic with background image of pens and paper with SYP logo in top left and community mental health report in top right.

    By SYP’s Mental Health Investigation Team – Alannah Logue MSYP, Amy Winter MSYP, Felix Schofield MSYP,…

    #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    Governments must step up to protect children’s rights, warns United Nations

    The facade of Palais Wilson, a UN building in Geneva.

    The United Nations has today warned the UK and Scottish governments that they need to do much more to uphold…

    #Education, #Environment, #Human Rights, #Mental Health, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    Reflections on the First Minister’s Anti-Poverty Summit

    SYP Chair Mollie McGoran standing at a lectern speaking at the First Minister's Anti-Poverty Summit in Edinburgh on 3rd May 2023

    Yesterday, I was invited to the First Minister’s Anti-Poverty Summit in Edinburgh. I was so pleased to be invited and…

    #Human Rights, #Mental Health, #Right to Food, #UNCRC, #Youth Work
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