The Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) is holding an online event, “An Appealing Prospect?” exploring ideas for an appeals process for participation requests, on Wednesday 11^th May, 9:30am – 2:30pm via Teams.

The event is open to community organisations, public bodies and other interested organisations and individuals, and will look at how participation requests (a way that communities can request to work with public bodies to improve outcomes or services) could be supported by reviews or appeals. The purpose of the event is to share SCDC’s findings around this so far, based on the deliberations of their working group.

This group met twice in February 2022, and consisted of both community organisations with experience of making participation requests, and public agencies who deal with participation requests. Draft findings have focused on principles behind an appeals mechanism, and proposals for both local reviews and appeals to Ministers.

There have also been draft proposals around improved practice guidance for participation requests and discussion regarding other forms of scrutiny.

This event will offer the chance to discuss these findings, and to further shape them before they are brought together and fed back to Scottish Government.

To book your place, or for further information, please visit the SCDC website.