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APPENDIX E
Children's Rights Workshop Session Plan
(Hill of Beath Primary School)
Introduction
Young Scot has been approached by the Children's Rights Team at the Scottish Government to carry out a consultation exercise with children and young people across Scotland to find out what they think about children's rights, and particularly the UNCRC's Concluding Observations on the implementation of children's rights in the UK. .
The intended outcomes of the consultation are:
- To discover what the children and young people taking part currently know about the UNCRC
- To explore their opinions regarding some of the themes that occurred in the concluding observations
- To prompt ideas on how the Scottish Government should be addressing these
The consultation will address these key questions, as identified in the proposal:
- Are these issues for you?
- What are the most important issues?
- What do you think the Scottish Government should do about it?
- What should the Scottish Government do first?
Workshop Structure
Each group will consist of between 8 and 12 participants and will be split according to age (8-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-18). Each group will take about an hour to complete.
We would like to video or audio record the workshop if possible. The recording will never be distributed out with the consultation team at Young Scot and is requested purely because it makes our job of analysing the material much easier, and so the facilitators can concentrate on engaging fully with the participants. If there are any objections at all we completely understand.
SESSION PLAN
Energising Icebreaker (5 mins)
Introduce Young Scot to the group then ask them to tell us their name and what they had for breakfast that morning.
We will also discuss the issue of confidentiality here and explain that they don't have to answer any questions they don't want to.
Introduction to session (15 minutes)
Introduce the consultation topic and its purpose and why we want to speak with them. Explain what we are going to do in the session (activities) giving them an outline of the next hour.
We will introduce the topic by looking at rights in general and also the United Nations.
We will give them a definition of what rights are and ask them to list any that they think they have. We will also ask them to look at pictures with titles such as nutritious food, a warm clean home, internet connection, fast food and ask them whether they think those are rights or things they would like to have.
To introduce the United Nations we will ask them about different countries in the world that they know of to get them thinking about how it affects children and young people all over the world.
Jenga … (40 mins)
We will use the game Jenga to look at specific recommendations and areas of importance. Each block will have a number which will correspond to a recommendation set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child - UK Concluding Observations 2008. When a block is pulled out we will discuss what they think about it and why they think it might be important for children and young people in Scotland.
At the end of it we will ask them which one they think should be tackled first.
Finish
Thank the young people from taking part.
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