As per the Minister’s request, it is now arranged that the Dundee SWAN students will be meeting with Mark McDonald (Scottish government minister for children and early years) on June 7 at Holyrood. Items on the agenda will include our objectives as an activism group and how the Scottish government might support our actions, and also to give him our views on the vision and strategy for a social work paper they’re currently implementing… Watch this space!
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