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Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
When you say “built out a bit”, is that about the cross-organisational, cross-community working that you have both already talked about?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
You have both talked about poverty and financial and economic inequality as well—it is about being able to track back through all those factors.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
I have similar questions for you, Rory O’Connor, about groups that we know, from the data, to be at high risk. Do we necessarily understand why? I am not asking specifically about neurodivergent people, but you mentioned them in particular.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
I come to Jane Bray with a similar question on targeting groups. Have we identified the right groups, and are we getting that right?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
This is my final question, because I know that other people want to come in on monitoring. It is about something a bit less tangible and perhaps harder to quantify and collect data for—the kind of intergenerational risks that are associated with conflict. As more and more of that is experienced not only in our own society but elsewhere, do we have an understanding of people who have lived in conflict societies and the impact that that has on them post-conflict? The impact could be felt decades later.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
It is just too hard.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
Thank you. Murray Smith, I want to put the same question to you.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
Good morning, both. Thank you for your comments so far, and for joining us this morning. I will talk a little bit about some of the different groups that are perhaps disproportionately affected.
Hazel Marzetti, you mentioned in your opening comments the very clear recognition in the strategy and in your research of the impacts that LGBTQIA+ communities face. Can you say a little bit more about why it is so important that the strategy recognises the disproportionate effects on different groups? Have we got the strategy right, now?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
Good morning. Thank you for being with us this morning and for your comments so far.
I want to follow on from Evelyn Tweed’s questions about groups of people who might be disproportionately affected by suicide or the experience of suicide. I have a general question to start off with. Do the strategy and the action plans and the thinking around them sufficiently address the needs of people who we know are in high-risk groups?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 30 April 2024
Maggie Chapman
In your opening remarks, you commented on Dundee and the issues of deprivation there. Dundee is Scotland’s drug death capital and is closely associated with drug and alcohol misuse and with suicide. Do we adequately understand the socioeconomic causes of that? We have spoken about resources, the cost of living crisis and all those things. Do we need to do more to focus on that aspect?