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8. How to Respond

CONSULTATION ON YOUTH WORK - OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL

We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by Wednesday 1 November.

Please do not feel you have to respond to all the questions or be restricted by the set questions in this consultation paper. Your comments on any aspect of the consultation paper will be welcome. When responding, you should complete the respondee information form.

We would be grateful if you could indicate clearly in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to (using the consultation response booklet if appropriate). This will help us to analyse the responses.

There are different ways that you can respond to this consultation paper.

• Fill out the response booklet enclosed with the consultation paper and send it to the Freepost address:

• If you want to access and respond to this consultation online, go to www.scotland.gov.uk/youthworkstrategy . You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.

• If you want to reply electronically, please email your response to youthworkstrategy@scotland.gsi.gov.uk . An electronic version of the respondee information form is available at www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations .

• There is an online questionnaire targeted specifically at young people at www.scotland.gov.uk/youthworkstrategy .

If you have any queries please send an email to youthworkstrategy@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or phone 0131 244 1897.

This consultation, and all other Scottish Executive ( SE) consultation exercises, can be viewed online at www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations.

The Scottish Executive now has an email alert system for consultations (SEconsult). This system allows anyone with an interest - individuals or organisations - to register and receive a weekly email with details of all new SE consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces, SE distribution lists. It allows you to keep up to date with all SE consultations activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.

Access to consultation responses

We will make all responses available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library by Wednesday 29 November unless confidentiality is requested. All responses not marked confidential will be checked for any potentially defamatory material before being logged in the library.

The views expressed may be quoted or referred to in any future review of responses. If you do not want your responses to be made public, please make sure that you indicate clearly that all or part of your response is to be treated as confidential. Confidentiality will be strictly respected. We will still count confidential responses in any statistical analysis and your views will of course be taken into account in the same way as for non-confidential responses.

You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SE Library on 0131 244 4556. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

Everyone responding should be aware that the Scottish Executive is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. This means we would have to consider any request made under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Electronic publication and additional copies

If you would like extra copies or if you would like this document in another format or language please contact us on 0131 244 1897. We will try to provide these for you.

Further information on youth work in Scotland

If you would like to find out more about youth work in Scotland, please go to www.scotland.gov.uk/youthworkstrategy.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, we will analyse all the responses and consider them along with any other available evidence to develop a National Youth Work Strategy.

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:

Email: youthworkstrategy@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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