Campaigns: Youth Manifesto 2011-2015
The whole point of the Scottish Youth Parliament is to connect young people with decision-makers, in simple terms to tell politicans what young people think. It's massively important to us that when we're talking to politicians we're telling them the right things (i.e. what Scotland's young people are passionate about), so that's why every four years we are committed to producing a 'manifesto' in the run up to the Scottish Parliament elections.
Don't worry though, it's not a manifesto in the traditional sense, unlike the usual stuff you get from political parties, our manifesto is essentially your manifesto - it's based on what you tell us is important.
The image on the right is a representation of the process - clicking here will take you to a more detailed decription, but first we want your help!
LATEST: Stage 1 has Just Closed! Stage 2 coming up shortly...
We've received a huge number of your ideas as part of the first phase of the manifesto process and we're busy collating them all as we speak. We've had everything from detention of asylum-seeking children to hospital admission policies - it's a really thought-provoking selection and, as usual, we've been impressed by the standard of submission. The ideas which make up the final manifesto will not only be shown to decision-makers, potentially influencing future policy, but will also guide the work and campaigns of the SYP for the next four years - pretty important then, hey?
When we've finished the collation process, which will culminate with our MSYPs at the June Sitting of SYP, we'll be ready to start on the second phase: The BIG Vote. As the name suggests, that's the key part of this whole thing, where we hope to get as many young people taking part as possible. Find out more about how the whole process works in the manifesto section.
If you want to get more involved or have a comment to make about the manifesto, simply send an email to mymanifesto@syp.org.uk and we'll see what we can do.
You can also keep up-to-date with and give your thoughts on manifesto progress through our social networking pages:
Also in this section
- Check out the SYP's Votes @ 16 campaign information, available here.
- Find out about the various policy decisions of the Scottish Youth Parliament in our Policy Log section.