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This section of the website will be updated with live opportunities for children and young people to have their voices heard.
This section of the website will be updated with live opportunities for children and young people to have their voices heard.
Surveys, consultations, engagement sessions, events or time limited opportunities will be added as we hear about them.
Inverness-Highland City of Culture Bid 2029
Inverness-Highland City of Culture Bid 2029
You may have heard that Inverness-Highland is bidding to be the UK City of Culture for 2029 and we have made the shortlist!
Although the competition is called “City of Culture”, our bid applies to all of Highland. We are the only area in Scotland to have made it through to this stage. If we are successful, this will provide significant funding to develop cultural activities that will benefit current and future generations. We want children and young people to be at the centre of these and to be as involved as possible in the decision-making about them.
All Highland children and young people have the opportunity to contribute to our specially developed consultation and we have put together a resource to support this. The link for them is here, and they are attached to this email. There is also online form if you would prefer to use that, which can be accessed here.
This has been sent out to schools, but we are sharing more widely so that any child or young person, anywhere in Highland, can get involved in their own time too if they would like to!
You can use the survey, draw pictures using the resource or do written answers to the questions. All we ask is that you either post or email them to Jo by Thursday 2nd July 2026. Her details are in the pack.
The Highland Child Protection Committee (HCPC) and the Children and Young People's Centre for Justice (CYCJ) have worked together to create a resource for supporting children and young people from across Highland to have their voice heard.
HCPC want to ensure that children and young people's views and rights are at the centre of youth justice service design and recognise and are committed to #KeepingThePromise where one of the 5 foundations are VOICE. This states that children and young people should be actively and meaningfully included in decisions about their care.
If you would like to get involved and have your say on:
Understanding Rights
Safe spaces to talk to trusted adults
Experiences of the justice system
Then please contact the HCPC Team and they will find the best person to link you up with to have your voice heard.
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