New Scottish Social Security Assessment Process
Stakeholder Engagement Event
10am-12pm | Tuesday 17 January 2017
(Glasgow) Video Conferencing Available
Registration by 9th January
This invitation has been extended to us through our funders ALLIANCE. It is not a MWH organised event, but we are happy to help support you to take part via video conferencing.
We wish to invite you to a short, focused meeting on 17 January in central Glasgow to share information and seek your views on a small-scale engagement project with ‘seldom heard’ groups about social security.
As you know, parts of the social security system are being devolved to Scotland, including disability and carers’ benefits. The ALLIANCE has been commissioned by the Scottish Government to gather the views of people from ‘seldom heard’* groups on what a new social security assessment process should look like when these powers are devolved. We want to enable people to tell the Scottish Government what would work in the future – based on their first-hand knowledge and experiences of the current social security system.
We have a very short window (Jan-March 2017) to facilitate up to 12 small-scale, local focus groups around the country, before reporting back to the Scottish Government in April 2017. Some events are provisionally planned in Dumfries, Galloway, Badenoch and Strathspey and Renfrewshire. We will also run a public online survey during the same time-period.
Despite the short time-scale we aim to raise awareness and maximise participation in the process. As such, we are inviting a number of key stakeholders, partners and ALLIANCE members, like yourself, who also work with seldom heard groups to this initial engagement session.
This meeting is by invitation only and we’d therefore be very grateful if you could tell us by Monday 9 January if you wish to join via video conferencing. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any requirements.
