New Scots - Refugee Integration in Scotland

Engagement Event Feedback Form

You can also complete this template online at:

https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/equality-unit/new-scots

If you are submitting individual or single organisation feedback please indicate this clearly and complete as much of the form as you can.

Section 1: About your event

Contact Person:

Organisation or group hosting:

Event name (if applicable)

Date of event

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Location of event (including postcode if known)

Number of participants

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It would be useful to know who contributed to your engagement.

This will help us to make sure a wide range of people are involved.

Who participated in your engagement event? (Please mark all that apply)
Refugee or person with a protection status	☐
Person seeking asylum	☐
A member of the host/receiving community	☐
A person representing the following group/organisation:
Local Authority	☐
Other public sector (DWP, SDS, etc)	☐
Charity (employee or volunteer)	☐
Member of a local voluntary group	☐
Business or private sector	☐
Other	☐
If other, please specify:	Click here to enter text.

It would be really helpful to know how many people from each group above attended your event. If you have this information please provide a breakdown in the box below.

If anyone attending represents an organisation, does their organisation:

Provide services directly to refugees	☐
Plan/coordinate services for refugees	☐
Not yet involved in working with refugees	☐

What demographic groups are your participants part of? (Please mark all that apply) Children (0 – 15 years) ☐ Young people (16 – 25 years) ☐ Older people (65+ years) ☐ Women ☐ Men ☐ Any other protected characteristics ☐

If you know how many people from the above groups attended please provide a breakdown in the box below.

Is there anything else you would like us to know about your participants or event? For example, was your engagement part of a larger event, did you conduct your event in a language other than English or are your participants part of a specific group?

Section 2: The Feedback

You can send any photos that you have of the material generated in discussions to ScotlandsRefugeeStrategy@gov.scot

Please include details of where and when the event took place in your email. If anyone appears in the photographs make sure that they are happy for the image to be shared.

If you would be happy for the images to be used in publications or presentations about New Scots please make that clear in your email, make sure that anyone visible in the photographs also consents to this and include details of the photographer.

Question 1: Thinking about refugee integration in Scotland, what issues are important to you now? Write up all the issues that the participants discussed. If you clustered them under different themes then add those as headings. If the participants voted on the priorities, then record the votes too.

Question 2: What changes do you want to see by 2020 and why? Identify what issues were discussed as priorities for the strategy. Write up that discussion and why the issues are important under each of the priority headings.

Question 3: What can you, your community or your organisation do to contribute to that change? Write up the suggestions of ways people, communities and organisations can contribute and support the strategy. If the contribution is linked to a theme / priority then please include this as well.

Any final comments?

Please return this feedback form by Friday 15 September to: ScotlandsRefugeeStrategy@gov.scot

Or post to: Scotland’s Refugee Strategy, Area 3 H North, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ

You can also complete this template online at: https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/equality-unit/new-scots