Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget statement - national priorities: easy read
Easy-read version of the Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget Statement
About the National Priorities
There are 4 different places where we have put our National Priorities.
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1. The 3 Missions
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Missions mean aims or goals that we want to happen.
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Humza Yousaf is the First Minister for the Scottish Government.
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In April 2023 he made a document called Vision for Scotland.
A vision is what we want to see happen.
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The Vision for Scotland has 3 missions.
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1. To make Scotland fairer and safer with fewer people not having enough money for basic things like food, clothes and heating.
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2. To make our economy:
- fairer
- stronger
- better for the climate crisis
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Economy means the way a whole country:
- makes goods to sell
- buys goods
- makes money
- spends money
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Climate crisis means the way that our planet is heating up too fast.
This means our weather patterns and water levels are changing very fast.
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3. To help our communities by having very good public services – like hospitals, police and schools.
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2. Programme for Government
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The Programme for Government is the Government’s goals for the year ahead.
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Money is given to work towards these goals.
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The new Programme for Government will go from 2024 to 2025.
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We have made a stronger way to check that everything works better for equality.
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Equality means treating people fairly and giving people the same chances and choices.
Some groups of people have fewer chances and choices than other sorts of people.
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We have looked at how life is even harder for someone who is in more than one of these groups.
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3. National Performance Framework
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Scotland has a wellbeing plan.
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Wellbeing means how happy and healthy we feel.
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The wellbeing plan is called the National Performance Framework.
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It has 11 aims – called National Outcomes.
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The aims say what wellbeing could be like in Scotland.
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There will be a close look at the 11 National Outcomes in 2024.
This will let us see how the work is going.
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4. Human Rights
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Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to everyone.
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Some of our rights are about how we take part in our communities and our country.
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Some of our rights are about jobs and day to day life.
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We think human rights are very important in our budget work.
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The Equality and Human Rights Advisory Group made a long list of actions that need to happen to make human rights better.
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We can show where human rights are an important part of budget decisions.
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Contact
Email: scottishbudget@gov.scot
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