Core Path Network Public Consultation Report
Created Oct 03, 2023, by Craig Melville and takes approximately 1min to read.
Survey Closed
The Community Council launched a public consultation on improving the core path network in our community. This network of paths are a vital part of our community infrastructure, providing safe and accessible routes for pedestrians, cyclists, and other non-motorised transport. We wanted to hear from the community how they would like to shape and improve the network to better serve the needs of our community.
Maps showing path routes:
- Countesswells Ave - Countesswells Rd
- Countesswells Ave - Craigiebuckler Dr
- Craigiebuckler Ave - Springfield Rd (via Walker Dam)
- Hazeldene Rd - Countesswells Ave
- Hazeldene Rd - Craigiebuckler Ave
- Rubislaw Park Rd - Viewfield Gdns (via Johnston Gdns)
- Springfield Rd - Rubislaw Park Rd
The Survey ran from May and closed on July 31, 2023.
Scottish Government: Consultation
Published Aug 21, 2023, by Craig Melville and takes approximately 3.5min to read.
Delivery of Relationships, Sexual Health, and Parenthood (RSHP) Education in Scottish Schools (Draft Statutory Guidance)
Overview
This consultation seeks views on draft statutory guidance on the delivery of relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education in Scottish schools.
The draft guidance is an update to guidance originally published in 2014.
Work to embed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) inclusive education across the curriculum and to review the delivery of Personal and Social Education (PSE), both recommended the existing guidance be updated.
Given the passage of time and the change in social fabric, the 2014 guidance was becoming outdated in providing suitable guidance for teachers on delivering relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education. The availability of a suite of dedicated resources to support teachers to deliver meaningful relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education, increased the need for teaching guidance to match the current, relevant and age and stage appropriate resources now available for teachers.
There have been established principles and aims, provided by previously issued guidance, which set the foundations of good and relevant learning in relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education. These have remained central throughout the development of this updated draft guidance. We have sought to ensure learning delivered by our educational practitioners is current and provides children and young people with the knowledge and understanding to ensure they can navigate the World they live in safely and confidently. This is particularly important as our children and young people interact more often online and the added risks this poses through these interactions. The learning and understanding of healthy relationships help to reduce domestic abuse, gender-based violence and ensures that the importance of appropriate boundaries is understood.
The revised guidance has been updated to reflect the recommendations mentioned above and as well as providing more detail on the process for withdrawing a child or young person from relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education. The revised guidance also includes new sections on the five topics below as well as key learning points for these topics.
- Consent and healthy relationships.
- Faith and belief.
- Gender inclusive education.
- Inclusion of understanding about differences of sex development (DSD) / variations in sex characteristics (VSC) / intersex people.
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) inclusive education.
It also includes an annex of signposts to resources for educational professionals.
Read the draft revised guidance and consultation paper.
Survey open August 3 and closes November 23, 2023.
Core Path Network Public Consultation Report
Created Oct 03, 2023, by Craig Melville and takes approximately 1min to read.
Survey Closed
The Community Council launched a public consultation on improving the core path network in our community. This network of paths are a vital part of our community infrastructure, providing safe and accessible routes for pedestrians, cyclists, and other non-motorised transport. We wanted to hear from the community how they would like to shape and improve the network to better serve the needs of our community.
Maps showing path routes:
- Countesswells Ave - Countesswells Rd
- Countesswells Ave - Craigiebuckler Dr
- Craigiebuckler Ave - Springfield Rd (via Walker Dam)
- Hazeldene Rd - Countesswells Ave
- Hazeldene Rd - Craigiebuckler Ave
- Rubislaw Park Rd - Viewfield Gdns (via Johnston Gdns)
- Springfield Rd - Rubislaw Park Rd
The Survey ran from May and closed on July 31, 2023.
Scottish Government: Consultation
Published Aug 21, 2023, by Craig Melville and takes approximately 3.5min to read.
Delivery of Relationships, Sexual Health, and Parenthood (RSHP) Education in Scottish Schools (Draft Statutory Guidance)
Overview
This consultation seeks views on draft statutory guidance on the delivery of relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education in Scottish schools.
The draft guidance is an update to guidance originally published in 2014.
Work to embed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) inclusive education across the curriculum and to review the delivery of Personal and Social Education (PSE), both recommended the existing guidance be updated.
Given the passage of time and the change in social fabric, the 2014 guidance was becoming outdated in providing suitable guidance for teachers on delivering relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education. The availability of a suite of dedicated resources to support teachers to deliver meaningful relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education, increased the need for teaching guidance to match the current, relevant and age and stage appropriate resources now available for teachers.
There have been established principles and aims, provided by previously issued guidance, which set the foundations of good and relevant learning in relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education. These have remained central throughout the development of this updated draft guidance. We have sought to ensure learning delivered by our educational practitioners is current and provides children and young people with the knowledge and understanding to ensure they can navigate the World they live in safely and confidently. This is particularly important as our children and young people interact more often online and the added risks this poses through these interactions. The learning and understanding of healthy relationships help to reduce domestic abuse, gender-based violence and ensures that the importance of appropriate boundaries is understood.
The revised guidance has been updated to reflect the recommendations mentioned above and as well as providing more detail on the process for withdrawing a child or young person from relationships, sexual health, and parenthood education. The revised guidance also includes new sections on the five topics below as well as key learning points for these topics.
- Consent and healthy relationships.
- Faith and belief.
- Gender inclusive education.
- Inclusion of understanding about differences of sex development (DSD) / variations in sex characteristics (VSC) / intersex people.
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) inclusive education.
It also includes an annex of signposts to resources for educational professionals.
Read the draft revised guidance and consultation paper.