Footnotes
- https://www.climateassembly.scot/
- The Assembly was announced in a debate on Brexit and Scotland’s future alongside 2 other initiatives: a decision to introduce the Referendums (Scotland) Bill and proposed cross-party talks to identify areas of agreement on constitutional and procedural change. https://www.gov.scot/publications/first-minister-statement-brexit-scotlands-future/
- Remit and terms of reference
- Memorandum of Understanding
- www.citizensassembly.scot/about/convener
- Members of the political panel in weekend 3 were: Angela Constance, SNP; Jamie Halcro Johnston, Scottish Conservatives; Richard Leonard, Scottish Labour and; Lorna Slater, Scottish Greens.
- 93% of members found the political panel ‘very much’ or ‘quite a lot’ helpful for their learning in weekend 3 (Member Survey, weekend 3).
- Now the Diffley Partnership.
- https://www.facebook.com/citizensassemblyofscotland
- https://twitter.com/citassemblyscot
- https://www.instagram.com/citassemblyscot/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxJBL9VtPxrWIunVyaq5jIg/videos
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/stories/conveners-blog
- The Scottish Government will publish the full Assembly costs in due course
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/research
- Now the Diffley Partnership.
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/sites/default/files/inline-files/Recruitment%20Report%20-%20final%20for%20upload.pdf
- Member Survey, weekends 1-7.
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/sites/default/files/inline-files/Code%20of%20conduct%20-%20final%20for%20publishing.pdf
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/sites/default/files/inline-files/Conversation%20guidelines%20for%20publishing%20online.docx.pdf
- The number of members ‘strongly agreeing’ that they would wanted to continue as an Assembly member ranged from 73-84% across the Assembly weekends (Member Survey, weekends 1-7).
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/sites/default/files/inline-files/SCA_Report_OurStorySoFar_0.pdf
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/journeysofar
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/sites/default/files/inline-files/Weekend%202_Evidence_Evidential%20standards%20for%20Citizens%20Assembly_1.pdf
- The Secretariat also prepared a series of ‘horizon-scanning’ materials on the impact of COVID to assist members’ discussions when the Assembly reconvened.
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/meetings/weekend-2
- 89% of members either ‘tended to agree’ or ‘strongly agreed’ with how the final statements on the kind of country we are seeking to build were agreed upon (Member Survey, weekend 2).
- Member Survey, weekend 6.
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/meetings/weekend-3
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/meetings/weekend-4
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/challenges
- https://www.citizensassembly.scot/meetings/weekend-7
- Member Survey, weekend 7, noted that across weekends 1 – 7, 81-94% of members either ‘tended to agree or ‘strongly agreed’ or that fellow participants respected what they had to say even if they did not agree with them and that 90% of members in weekend 7 say they were very happy with the options presented for voting.
- While there were 100 respondents to the second round of voting, one respondent only voted on recommendations 38,39, 40 and 41. This is likely due to a respondent exiting the survey before pressing ‘done’ on the survey.
- The Assembly was temporarily suspended in March 2020 in accordance with public health requirements relating to COVID-19. As the Assembly resumes, certain adjustments to the Assembly terms of reference have been made to paragraphs 7, 8 and 10.
- The original wording of the Terms of Reference read: “The Assembly will meet over 6 weekends between autumn 2019 spring 2020”.
- Given the limited time available only those statements that were close to the threshold were able to be submitted for a review process.
- Scotland should be a country where we encourage and support everyone to reach their full potential. By encouraging resilience and supporting everyone in their skills and interests, promoting a positive attitude by adapting the way we educate. Focus on celebrating a variety of ideas and strengths including life and vocational skills, apprenticeships and hands-on experience. Provide fair and equality-driven opportunities for everyone, it’s about the whole community working together to educate society for our future
- Scotland should be an inclusive country where everyone feels safe, valued and respected, where we all have personal responsibility to treat each other with kindness, looking after the most vulnerable in our communities.
- Scotland should be a country where all taxes are simplified and made more proportionate so that everyone is taxed accordingly; taxation is transparent and understandable; measures are introduced to minimise tax avoidance; and companies are incentivised to adopt green values
- Scotland should be a country where all taxes must be proportionate and simplified so that taxation is understandable and companies are incentivised to adopt green values. To ensure accountability, measures must be introduced to minimise tax avoidance.
- In the text prepared by members.
- While there were 100 respondents to the round 2 of voting, one respondent only voted on recommendations 38,39, 40 and 41. This is likely due to a respondent exiting the survey before pressing ‘done’ on the survey.