Equality and Human Rights Mainstreaming Strategy: Consultation - Easy Read

How to take part in the consultation

There are 3 ways you can answer the questions in the consultation:

• online
• by post
• by email

Online

You can answer online on the Scottish Government’s consultation hub called Citizen Space at: consult.gov.scot

If you use the consultation hub to answer, you will get sent a copy of your answers by email.

By post

You can type or write your answers on the Respondent Information Form and send it to us.

If you want to write your answers in the boxes then you can use the enter button to make the boxes bigger first. Then print out the answer pages ready to write on.

Put your answers in an envelope and write the address on the front.

The address is:

By email

You can send us your answers by email.

If you are answering by using the Respondent Information Form, click on the box of the answer you agree with and a tick will appear.

If you change your mind you can click on it again to untick it.

If you are typing, the spaces will get bigger as you type.

When you have finished, save a copy and email it to: MainstreamingStrategy@gov.scot

There are 28 questions in the survey.

Each question is in bold black writing.

Our vision and objectives

Our vision is what we want to see happen.

Our objectives are what we want to get done.

Our vision is:

• to make sure we have strong communities across Scotland and that everyone’s rights are protected
• to deal with the inequality in Scotland

Our objectives are to:

• get rid of policies and ways of working that are unfair to some people
• improve how policy decisions are made and carried out

• support public bodies to develop their own mainstreaming plans
• make sure Government and public bodies are focused on equality and human rights
• to make it easier for people who have found things unfair, to complain to organisations

Questions

1. Do you agree with the vision?

2. Do you agree with the objectives?

The changes we want to make have 6 themes: