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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY UGH­DAR­RAS PAIRC NAISEANTA Α’ MHON­AIDH RUAIDH

Cairngorms Equal­ity Advis­ory Panel

28^th June 2022

5:00pm – 6:30pm — Held virtually

Minutes

Present Anita Howard Kev­in Hutchens Linda Bam­ford Vanessa Alt­weck Bo Mansell Lina Payne Peter Kennedy

Attend­ing Fiona McLean (Chair) Kath­er­ine Will­ing Tania Alli­od Kate Christie Mike Woolvin

Apo­lo­gies Heath­er Earn­shaw Lil­liana Corrieri

1. Wel­come 1.1. Fiona Wel­comed the pan­el and guests to the meeting.

2. Recap and Actions from Pre­vi­ous Meet­ing 2.1. The minutes from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing were agreed. 2.2. The action log was reviewed.

3. Item 1: Her­it­age Hori­zons Cairngorms 2030 – Mike Woolv­in 3.1. Mike gave a short present­a­tion, provid­ing an over­view of the research, mon­it­or­ing and eval­u­at­ing strand of Cairngorms 2030. Mike con­tin­ued his present­a­tion provid­ing the pan­el with more detail about why and how the pro­ject are seek­ing to col­lect equal­it­ies inform­a­tion. 3.2. Mike asked for feed­back on sev­er­al questions

   • What works well when col­lect­ing equal­it­ies inform­a­tion in-person?
   • What doesn’t work well when col­lect­ing equal­it­ies inform­a­tion in person?
   • Is there any­thing we should spe­cific­ally be aware of when doing this online?
   • What have approaches have you seen work well else­where… are there oth­er approaches we should consider?
   • Is there any­thing about the ques­tions that we ask you would recom­mend we reph­rase, include, or remove?
   • How can we mon­it­or wheth­er we are involving a wide range of young people?

Pan­el Response 3.3. The pan­el felt there were a few things that were import­ant to con­sider when col­lect­ing equal­it­ies inform­a­tion in per­son and online.

• The pan­el explained that it is import­ant to con­sider how people will fill out the forms in per­son or online, some people will prefer a digit­al ver­sion some people will prefer paper.
• The pan­el sug­ges­ted ensur­ing that you are mak­ing pro­vi­sions for those with low levels of lit­er­acy or lim­ited access to the inter­net. The pan­el explained that the lib­rary ser­vice has helped. The pan­el sug­ges­ted it may be help­ful to work with organ­isa­tions who help those with low levels of lit­er­acy. 3.4. The pan­el did not provide examples of spe­cif­ic approaches that have worked in the past. They did sug­gest that the groups the pro­ject is look­ing to col­lect data on is engaged as soon as pos­sible, prefer­ably in the devel­op­ment­al phase, as this will help to keep them engaged across the lifespan of the pro­ject. 3.5. The pan­el did not provide examples of spe­cif­ic approaches that have worked in the past. They did sug­gest that the groups the pro­ject is look­ing to col­lect data on is engaged as soon as pos­sible, prefer­ably in the devel­op­ment­al phase, as this will help to keep them engaged across the lifespan of the pro­ject. 3.6. The pan­el com­men­ted on the pro­posed equal­it­ies ques­tions. The pan­el sug­ges­ted that the ques­tion ​“what was your assigned gender at birth?” be changed to two ques­tions. The first ask­ing ​“what was your assigned sex at birth?” and the second ask­ing ​“how do you cur­rently identi­fy your gender?” 3.7. The pan­el did not spe­cific­ally com­ment on how to engage with a diverse set of young people. The pan­el did remind the speak­er to be care­ful when focus­ing on one age group and recom­men­ded ensur­ing that older groups were also included as they can often feel excluded.

1. Item 2: Her­it­age Hori­zons Cairngorms 2030 – Tania Alli­od 4.1. Tania gave a present­a­tion to the pan­el on the pro­gress of the five Her­it­age Hori­zons (HH) / Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects that she supports.

Pan­el Response 4.2. The pan­el were inter­ested in all the pro­jects Tania presen­ted. The pan­el reminded Tania that engage­ment is most suc­cess­ful when ini­ti­ated in the devel­op­ment phase as opposed to deliv­ery. 4.3. The pan­el felt that for eval­u­ation of these pro­jects it is import­ant to use a wide range of indic­at­ors, such as the kind­ness index. 4.4. The pan­el felt that in rela­tion to the com­munity arts and cul­ture pro­jects that it is import­ant to reach out to day centres and the work­ers edu­ca­tion­al asso­ci­ation. Tania explained that she is cur­rently work­ing on includ­ing an Alzheimers project.

1. Item 3 – Steer­ing Group Access­ib­il­ity Cri­ter­ia and Par­ti­cip­a­tion Sup­port Form for Com­ments – Tania Alli­od 5.1. This item was primar­ily for email cor­res­pond­ence, how­ever, the pan­el asked Tania the spe­cif­ic pur­pose of the doc­u­ment to help them under­stand the con­text. Tania explained that the pur­pose of the doc­u­ment is to help the team sup­port­ing the steer­ing group to identi­fy any bar­ri­ers to par­ti­cip­at­ing and under­stand how they can remove these. 5.2. Tania asked the group that any com­ments that they wished to make would need to be set by the 20^th of July 2022.

2. AOB 6.1. Kate had inten­ded to dis­cuss the face-to-face event, but due to the meet­ing over- run­ning it was decided that this would be set as an action point and con­duc­ted through email cor­res­pond­ence. 6.2. A mem­ber of the pan­el had atten­ded The Gath­er­ing, an event organ­ised by the Scot­tish Coun­cil for Vol­un­tary Organ­isa­tions. The pan­el mem­ber gave feed­back on the organ­isa­tions they had inter­ac­ted with and the present­a­tions they had seen.

END OF MEET­ING NEXT MEET­ING 30^th August 2022