Extracts from Scottish Parliament debate on "Equally Safe" - Nov 28
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 07:38
Claire Baker (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab): ...Barnardo's Scotland
has emphasised the need for children and young people of all ages
to have access to high-quality education around health and
wellbeing, including healthy relationships and Gender
equality. The review of personal and social education is on-going,
and it gives us the opportunity to address gender inequality.
Barnardo's, Children 1st and the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children also make strong points...Request free trial
(Mid Scotland and Fife)
(Lab): ...Barnardo's Scotland has emphasised
the need for children and young people of all ages to have access
to high-quality education around health and wellbeing, including
healthy relationships and Gender
equality. The review of personal and social education is
on-going, and it gives us the opportunity to address gender
inequality. Barnardo's, Children 1st and the National Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children also make strong points about
child sexual abuse and exploitation, which the cabinet secretary
might wish to address...
(Cunninghame South)
(SNP):...It is important to be clear that we are not
there yet: we have not achieved Gender equality, and violence against
women and girls, wherever it is on the scale, is both a cause and a
symptom of that inequality. There will not be a woman in or outside
this place whose life has not been negatively affected by that in
some way or another. It might not be all men, but it is all
women...
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