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APPENDIX C
Children's Rights Workshop Session Plan
(Good Shepherd)
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.
SESSION PLAN
Energising Icebreaker (5 mins)
Introduce Young Scot.
Name, what you had for breakfast and organising themselves into a line in order of DOB, without speaking!!
Introduction to session (5 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 also discuss the issue of consent here and will get verbal consent at this time, followed by written consent at the end. This is so that they can be sure that they are happy to let us use what they have subsequently discussed.
Activity 1: Poster wall and discussion…
9 headings with summary points will be placed on the walls around the room representing a different issue. We will also give a brief explanation of each one and clarify what we want them to think about.
Then the young people will walk around each of these and place comments on post-its (flip chart paper should be placed under each heading, 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 - how many people stood at each issue. (10 mins)
We will then ask them why they are there, what is so important about that issue etc. If one topic has a lot of young people standing at it we will ask a couple of them that question, and those who didn't will read out some of the post-its placed under the poster. (10 mins)
We will then ask them to align themselves to the poster they feel is least important to them by standing in front of it. We will ask them to say why this is, but also to think about why it might be important to some young people. We will also go over any post-its that may have been placed on the wall. We will make sure that we discuss every topic as we will have recorded how many people stood where at each exercise. (10 mins)
ENERGISER ACTIVITY
Activity 2: Input and discussion…
We will ask the group to sit down together and we will provide a short input on the UNCRC concluding observations on each issue, providing examples. After that we will ask them to think about the issues again as some new ideas may have come from that information. They don't need to do this for every topic but just what stands out for them. The post-its will be placed on the AFTER side of the flip chart paper. (10 mins)
They will then be asked again to stand at the issue that is most important to them. We will record this and look at why they have moved, what changed their mind, how they would like to see these issues addressed. For those who didn't move, why not, were they tempted?
For the final time we ask them to stand at the issue that is most important to them. This is so that any new discussions or points raised can be included in their decision-making processes. (10 mins)
Finish
Thank all of the participants for taking part and ask for written consent (consent forms).
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