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Annexe 5 - Approaches to Engagement in Session 5
Lived experience and wider engagement
A number of strategies were used to effectively inform scrutiny, and to develop a meaningful and sensitive approach to hear from a diverse range of people with lived experience.
These women—more so now—are being left for years upon years. They are living their lives essentially at the mercy of the justice system, and then one day it is over, and there is nothing there.
There was feedback, too, from aid workers who had been attacked and harangued out of Gaza, and from Scots who had lived in Gaza and had felt that in many ways they were living under occupation.
As I say, housing is a fundamental issue. Everyone must live somewhere and everyone must go to school, but not everyone who goes to school will have somewhere permanent to live.
The law that underpins mobile home sites and the rights of site residents is covered in various pieces of legislation, so this is part of a package of measures. The rights of people who live on mobile home sites and own the homes in which they live are protected under an act of 1983, which includes a set of terms rel...