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Highland Local Housing Strategy Survey

To ensure the Local Housing Strategy reflects the view of local residents, a survey will run until 30 September 2022. It asks local people to share their views on the housing issues that matters most in their community and how they feel resources, investment and services should be targeted to address these issues. All Highland residents are urged to participate in the survey which should take no more than 5 minutes to complete.

Closes: Friday, September 30

Planning with People: Community Engagement and Participation Guidance - Service User Questionnaire

Did you know that people living in Scotland have the right to get involved in the design and delivery of new health or social care services, and to comment on changes to existing services?

When it comes to designing or making changes to these services, it is important that NHS Boards, Health and Social Care Partnerships and Local Authorities listen to the views of people who might use them. The process of finding out your views is called community engagement.

Closes: Friday, September 30

EVENT: Agriculture Bill Consultation

Glen Mhor Hotel & Apartments 7-17 Ness Bank Inverness IV2 4SG

Wednesday, October 5, 19:00 – 21:00

This event will not focus on providing detail of future measures or schemes. This is an opportunity for individuals and organisations to discuss the proposed powers and the development of a new Bill that supports Scotland’s ambition to support high-quality food production and be a global leader in sustainable and regenerative agriculture.

Equality Evidence Strategy 2023-25 Consultation

We are consulting on a draft plan to improve and strengthen Scotland's equality evidence base. The responses we receive through this consultation will help to shape this plan, which will form the basis of Scotland's new Equality Evidence Strategy.

The development of Scotland's next Equality Evidence Strategy, covering the years 2023 to 2025 will mark the conclusion of the first phase of the Scottish Government's Equality Data Improvement Programme (EDIP). This phase was launched in April 2021 and aimed to lay the groundwork in strengthening Scotland's equality evidence base.

Closes: Friday, October 7

EVENT: Bairns' House Consultation

Wednesday, October 12, 14:00 – 16:00

Children in Scotland’s VOICES membership and Supporting the Third Sector Project (STTS) will be hosting a consultation event on the Bairns' Hoose Standards. Henry Mathias, Head of Professional Codes and Practice at The Care Inspectorate and Louise Hill, Head of Policy, Evidence and Impact at Children 1st will be our guest speakers.  Please come along for an afternoon of information sharing and discussion. The discussions during this event will help form Children in Scotland's response to the draft standards. Make sure your views are heard and have your say! 

To register, please email [email protected] 

Inspection of Early Learning and Childcare and School Age Childcare Services in Scotland

This consultation aims to gather views on a vision for the future of inspection and what this will deliver for children, families and practitioners, teachers and staff working in the sector from the full range of early learning and childcare (ELC) and school age childcare services, whether or not they currently provide funded ELC.

Closes: Friday, October 28

Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation

Scotland has a proud history of land reform going back to the early days of devolution. The Scottish Government are committed to bringing forward a new Land Reform Bill in this parliamentary session. Over the summer, we are undertaking a wide-ranging consultation on our proposals for the measures it should contain.

The Bill will be ambitious. It will address long-standing concerns about the highly concentrated pattern of land ownership in rural areas of Scotland. At the same time, we want to ensure that our land is owned, managed, and used in ways that rise to the challenges of today: net zero, nature restoration, and a just transition.

Closes: Sunday, October 30

Help Shape the New National Care Service

Applications open to join Lived Experience Experts Panel.

Adults with first-hand experience of social care services in Scotland are being invited to help design the new National Care Service (NCS) from today.

Applications are now open for both the Lived Experience Experts Panel (LEEP) and Stakeholder Register, which will bring together people from across the country to help develop a care system that puts people first, in one of the biggest co-design exercises the Scottish Government has ever undertaken.

Click here for more information on how to join the Lived Experience Expert Panel or the Stakeholder Register