Current status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to involve people with experience of poverty and social exclusion in the monitoring of Closing the Opportunity Gap's targets and objectives and how it will report on any activity undertaken in this area.
All departments have been asked to develop plans for involving service users and those with experience of poverty and social exclusion in the delivery of their targets. In addition, the Poverty Alliance are currently developing a programme of work that will enable the views of those with direct experience of poverty and social exclusion to be fed into the policy development, monitoring and review process.