| 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that aspects of personal finance (such as budgeting, banking, interest rates and loans) should be a mandatory part of the curriculum before the end of S4. | Statement | Education and Lifelong Learning | 96% | Members’ Motion by Neal McCulloch MSYP and Georgia Pritchard MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that, as well as the right to life, everyone should have the right to die, and as a result calls on the Scottish Government to legalise assisted suicide for those with terminal and life-limiting illnesses to relieve patients of terminal suffering and pain. | Statement | Health and Wellbeing | 67% | Members’ Motion by Neal McCulloch MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament is concerned that SQA’s recently reformed Results Services (both Exceptional Circumstances and Post-Results Services) do not allow for total consideration of a candidate’s individual circumstances, their previous course work (including prelim grade), or mental wellbeing at the time of the exam. SYP therefore calls on the SQA and the Scottish Government to review the current system to make the process fairer and more accessible. | Statement | Education and Lifelong Learning | 88% | Members’ Motion by Emily Harle MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that public ownership of the national rail network is essential to delivering a cost-effective, accountable and reliable service for communities across Scotland. | Statement | Jobs, Economy and Fair Work; Transport, Environment and Rural Affairs | 58% | Members’ Motion by Sasha Byron MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that Scotland should implement legislation that would grant people who have experienced domestic abuse a period of paid leave from their employment, allowing them to build a safer, more stable living environment and protect themselves and any children without having to worry about income or work. | Statement | Equalities and Human Rights | 92% | Members’ Morion by Huw Sherrard MSYP and Robbie Burgess MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that the Carer’s Allowance should be extended to young adult carers aged 16-25 who are in full-time education. | Statement | Social Security | 87% | Members’ Motion by Lauren Baigrie MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that, in their Children and Young People’s Rights Action Plan 2018-21, the Scottish Government should include explicit, specific actions for how it plans to embed a human rights based approach to enable care experienced children and young people to grow up in an atmosphere of love, equality and respect in Scotland. | Statement | Equalities and Human Rights | 86% | Members’ Motion by Helen Johnson MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that the government must do better to ensure that care experienced young people can access sustainable, affordable housing. This would be a means of combating poor outcomes and homelessness among some of Scotland’s most vulnerable young people once leaving the care system. | Statement | Equalities and Human Rights | 94% | Members’ Motion by Ryan McShane MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that Councils and schools across Scotland should endeavour to ensure that children and young people’s placing requests for primary or secondary school are successfully granted if any of their siblings also attend that school, with refusals being a measure of last resort. The Scottish Youth Parliament further calls on Councils to carry out reviews of their ‘catchment areas’ to ensure that as few young people as possible are refused admission to a closer school, given the cost and travel implications. | Statement | Education and Lifelong Learning | 79% | Members’ Motion by Jason Black MSYP and Amy Lee Fraioli MSYP
| | 22 Oct 2018 | The Scottish Youth Parliament welcomes the establishment of the Children and Young People’s Panel on Europe by the Scottish Government, Children in Scotland and Together (Scotland’s Alliance for Children’s Rights), and looks forward to seeing children and young people’s voices actively influence the ongoing Brexit negotiations. | Statement | UK, Europe and External Relations | 73% | Members’ Motion by Bailey-Lee Robb
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