Draft Gaelic Language Plan 2027 to 2032: Social Security Scotland
Overview
Social Security Scotland is committed to ensuring that everyone can access our services with dignity, fairness and respect.
Gaelic is an important part of Scotland's heritage, culture and identity. Through our first Gaelic Language Plan, we want to support the visibility and use of Gaelic across our organisation and improve opportunities for people to engage with us through Gaelic where possible. The draft Plan sets out a range of commitments covering our workforce, corporate communications, client services, digital services and engagement with communities.
The Plan has been developed in accordance with the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005, as amended by the Scottish Languages Act 2025, and supports the aims of the National Gaelic Language Plan 2023-2028.
We are seeking views from individuals, organisations, Gaelic speakers, learners, community groups and anyone with an interest in the future of Gaelic in Scotland. Your feedback will help us understand whether our proposed commitments are appropriate, achievable and sufficiently ambitious, and whether there are additional actions we should consider before finalising the Plan.
The consultation will remain open until Friday 6 November.
After the consultation closes, we will review all responses and use the feedback received to inform the final version of the Gaelic Language Plan 2027-2032. We will publish a summary of consultation responses alongside the final Plan.
Thank you for taking the time to share your views.
The consultation paper contains full background information for this consultation. You may find it useful to read or refer to while responding.
Consultation questions preview
The consultation questions are included here for your reference. Please click 'Begin consultation' at the bottom of this page to proceed.
Question 1. To what extent do you agree that the draft Gaelic Language Plan will support the promotion and use of Gaelic within Social Security Scotland?
Question 2. Do you think the proposed commitments will improve access to Social Security Scotland services and information for Gaelic speaker?
Question 3. Which of the proposed commitments do you consider to be the highest priority?
Question 4. Are there any additional actions that Social Security Scotland should take to support Gaelic speakers and learners?
Question 5. Do you think the commitments in the Plan are sufficiently ambitious?
Question 6. Do you think the proposed timescales for delivering the Plan are realistic and achievable?
Question 7. Do you have any other comments on the draft Gaelic Language Plan?
Useful information about responding to this consultation
As you complete your response, each page will provide the option to 'Save and come back later' at the bottom. This means you can save your progress and return to the consultation at any time before it closes. If you don't use this feature and leave the consultation midway through, your response will be lost.
Once you have submitted your response, you can enter your email address to get a pdf copy of your answers sent to you.
On the 'About You' page at the end of this consultation, organisations will have the opportunity to tell us more about their work and/or how their response was informed.
After the consultation has closed there will be a few months delay before any responses are published. This is because we must check any responses to be published abide by our Terms of Use.
All relevant submitted responses will be analysed. This may be carried out by third party organisations who Scottish Government, its executive agencies or non-ministerial offices, contract to do this work. Such data sharing will be governed by appropriate contractual arrangements to keep your data secure.
An analysis report will usually be published some months after the consultation has closed. This report will summarise the findings based on all responses submitted. It will be published on the Social Security Scotland website and you may be notified about it if you choose to share your email address with us.
You can also join our consultation mailing list where we regularly list newly published analysis reports (as well as new consultations).
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