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  • Making Arlen Hill safer

    We want to make Arlen Hill the safest and most welcoming place to live in the country. We'd welcome your views on how we're doing and what more we can do to make this happen.

    Closed 29 April 2021

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Your Referendum

This is an example consultation for demonstration purposes only. This site is operated by Delib Ltd and submitted responses will be discarded. This consultation seeks views on how the referendum...

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Housing Standards response publishing survey

We are seeking your views on standards for housing in the borough and where improvements can be made

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Healthy and Active Children Strategy

This is an example consultation for demonstration purposes only. This site is operated by Delib Ltd and submitted responses will be discarded. The Healthy Child Programme is the main...

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We asked, You said, We did

Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes.

We asked

Peanuts

You said

Jelly

We did

Sandwich

We asked

We asked you for your thoughts and comments on the proposed Healthy and Active Children Strategy for Arlen Hill.

You said

We received nearly 500 responses from a broad range of service users, stakeholders and private citizens.

The main points of feedback were:

  1. The questions in this consultation could have been better structured to elecit the kind of feedback that you felt was necessary.
  2. Staff may find it difficult to work with a broad age range of children. You felt developmental specialists would be preferable.
  3. Schedule in some weekend and evening clinics to support those parents working full time.

We did

  1. Following the consultation we ran a facilitated focus group and invited those participants who said they wanted to say more to ensure they were represented in the service specification.
  2. We clarified that we would not expect all Healthy Child Programme staff to be working across the whole age range as a matter our course, and that each member of staff would work across the age group most suited to their skills.
  3. We have included in the service specification that the provider should provide services available at locations and times that suit the service user.

Your impact

Here are just a few of the decisions and changes we made after receiving feedback from our Citizens' Panel.

Arlen Hill leisure centre

We have set out what consultations can be used for and how they have an impact on the work we do. This can help you understand what to expect from consultations and what our responsibilities to you are. Read the consultation guide.

Our Participation Framework sets out how we should engage the public in our work. It guides people through some of the main ideas and steps to take in planning to engage with the public. The word ‘participation’ is used to mean how the public can take part in the work we do.

We have experts who work to design new or improved public services. These experts involve the public to understand what people need from services, and include them in the design process. We have a Scottish Approach to Service Design which sets out how we make sure we do this well.

Making Arlen Hill safer

We know that children and young people have a right to be heard too. This is set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

Our children’s rights team worked with experts across Scotland to create a guide on how to involve children and young people. This includes important things to think about and examples of how people have done it well in the past.

As part of this guide, the team have collected reports which go into this topic in more depth. This might be useful for people who want to find out more.

Food waste collections

Scotland has so far had two citizens’ assemblies. These are special activities to hear from a cross-section of the public on an important topic for the country. The people who took part were recruited and were representative of the whole population of Scotland.

The first assembly was the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland. It ran from 2019-2020. It was set up to answer the question “What kind of country are we seeking to build?”. You can read their answer to this question in their Doing Politics Differently report. Scottish Government wrote a response to this report, and published research on the assembly.

The second assembly was Scotland’s Climate Assembly. It ran from 2020-2021. It was set up to answer the question “How should Scotland change to tackle the climate emergency in an effective and fair way?”. You can read their answer in their Recommendations for Action report. Scottish Government wrote a response to the recommendations, and further research on the assembly process.