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APPENDIX D
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 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)
Name, what you had for breakfast and organising themselves into a line in order of DOB, without speaking!!
Then introduce Young Scot.
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.
We will also give them the vouchers at this point, and ensure receipt forms are collected and stored away before we begin.
Activity 1: Poster wall and discussion…
9 headings with summary points will be placed on the walls around the room representing a different issue e.g. Fairness and Equality. 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 think about which ones are most important for Scotland to take action on. (5 mins)
Then ask them to align themselves to the poster they feel it is most important for Scotland to take action on by standing in front of it. This should be recorded. i.e. How many young people stood at each issue?
We will then ask them why they are there, what is so important about that issue etc (10 mins)
We will then ask them to align themselves to the poster they feel is least important for Scotland to take action on 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 make sure that we discuss every topic as we will have recorded how many people stood where at each exercise. (10 mins)
ENERGISER ACTIVITY (whilst posters unveiled)
Activity 2: Input and discussion…
We will ask the group to sit down together and we will put up posters for each heading that gives more information 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. (10 mins)
They will then be asked again to stand at the issue that is most important for Scotland to take action on. 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 important for Scotland to take action on. 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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