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APPENDIX B
Children's Rights Workshop Session Plan
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 45 minutes to an hour to complete.
We would like to video the workshop if possible. The video will never be distributed outwith 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 and will use audio instead if the group is happier with that.
Confidentiality Agreement
Explain confidentiality agreement to participants and get them to sign a consent form.
SESSION PLAN
Introduction to session (5 minutes)
Energising Icebreaker (2 mins)
Name, what you had for breakfast and organising themselves into a line in order of DOB, without speaking!!
Activity 1: 11 posters will be placed on the walls around the room representing a different issue, and the young people will walk around each of these and place comments on post-its (flipchart paper should be placed under each poster, divided with BEFORE/AFTER) relating to why that issue might be important to them. Ask them to stick them on the BEFORE side. Then ask them to align themselves to the poster they feel is most important to them by standing in front of it. This should be recorded on Issues of Concern sheet. i.e. How many young people stood at each issue?
The top 4/5 issues should be discussed in the following activity. (10 mins)
Activity 2: Large group will be split into 2 small groups and they will discuss half of the issues, and how it affects young people in Scotland. The facilitator can bring up points from the Issues of Concern sheet to kick start the discussion. (15 mins)
Activity 3: The small groups will then look the other ssues in the same way. (15 mins)
Activity 4: After the young people have discussed all the issues they will go back and align themselves to the most important issue to them. (13 mins)
- Who's moved? Why?
- If you didn't move, why not?
- Were you tempted to move?
This should be recorded in the same way as the first activity, and post-it notes should be written stating why people have moved.
Activity 5: Following on from activity 4, a small group discussion on the top 2/3 issues. (10 mins)
- How would you address these?
- What would you like to see happen?
Again, this should be recorded on flip chart.
Finish
Thank the participants for taking part and then explain what will happen to the findings, and that you will be in touch when the consultation is complete with a summary of the results.
Give out vouchers ensuring a voucher receipt form is signed.
Resources
Pens, flipchart paper, post-its, consent forms, and voucher receipt forms.
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