STEP Annual Conference 2018 - Jack Dudgeon, SYP is All Aboard for Sustainable Transport
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
0 likes•98 views
STEP 2018 Conference. Jack Dudgeon. Scottish Youth Parliament's 2018-19 national campaign on public transport.
![All About All Aboard!
• Aim: To improve young people’s experience of public
transport in Scotland.
• Three themes: Reducing Fares – Accessibility – Bus
Standards.
• Two phases:
• Phase One – Consultation (October – December)
• Phase Two – Action (January – June)
• [Phase Three – mini campaign for new MSYPs]
www.syp.org.uk @OfficialSYP #AllAboardSYP](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to STEP Annual Conference 2018 - Jack Dudgeon, SYP is All Aboard for Sustainable Transport
Similar to STEP Annual Conference 2018 - Jack Dudgeon, SYP is All Aboard for Sustainable Transport (20)
More from STEP_scotland
More from STEP_scotland (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
STEP Annual Conference 2018 - Jack Dudgeon, SYP is All Aboard for Sustainable Transport
- 1. Scottish Transport Emission Partnership Conference 2018 All Aboard Scottish Youth Parliament’s Public Transport Campaign 2018-19 www.syp.org.uk @OfficialSYP #AllAboardSYP
- 2. All About All Aboard! • Aim: To improve young people’s experience of public transport in Scotland. • Three themes: Reducing Fares – Accessibility – Bus Standards. • Two phases: • Phase One – Consultation (October – December) • Phase Two – Action (January – June) • [Phase Three – mini campaign for new MSYPs] www.syp.org.uk @OfficialSYP #AllAboardSYP
- 3. What did MSYPs say? The big issues... Theme % responses Fares 38.2% Routes 25.7% Accessibility 12.5% Safety 5.1% Reliability 5.1% Quality 4.4% Information 3.7% Participation 2.2% Environment 0.7% Other 2.2% www.syp.org.uk @OfficialSYP #AllAboardSYP
- 4. #AllAboardSYP Colin Smyth MSP with MSYPs to discuss the Transport Bill at SYP67 on 21st October 2018. In out of the 72,744 responses we received in our Lead the Way Manifesto consultation, 80% of young people agreed that: ‘Action should be taken to drastically tackle climate change, protect the environment, and promote green initiatives, such as investing in clean and renewable energy, reducing emissions, encouraging recycling, reducing waste, and investing in public and active transport.’
- 5. Current SYP Policy Standards and safety Environment Fares Accessibility www.syp.org.uk @OfficialSYP #AllAboardSYP
- 6. A human rights based approach #AllAboardSYP #SYPrights Participation Accountability Non- discrimination + equality Empowerment
- 7. Get Involved! • Follow @OfficialSYP and #AllAboardSYP on Twitter. • Contact your local MSYP on our website. • Look out for upcoming events and opportunities. • Read our findings from the Transport (Scotland) Bill. #AllAboardSYP
- 8. Thank You SYP’s Public Transport Campaign 2018-19 www.syp.org.uk @OfficialSYP #AllAboardSYP For more on Public Affairs at SYP, please contact: laura.p@syp.org.uk. For more on Campaigns at SYP, please contact: rosy.b@syp.org.uk
Editor's Notes
- Good afternoon, my name is Jack Dudgeon MSYP and I am the Vice Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament. I am delighted to be invited here today by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to speak firstly, about young people’s experience of public transport and travelling around Scotland, including what barriers/opportunities there are to accessing public transport for young people. Secondly, I’d like to talk about young people’s experience of air pollution, transportation and health, especially given 2018 is the Year of Young People. I believe we can’t meaningfully celebrate young people today, if we aren’t already thinking about safeguarding their future tomorrow! I’m also excited to be here today to learn more about the Scottish Government’s Cleaner Air for Scotland Strategy, scope for influencing that, and to share best practice in sustainable transport. I should say, my role last year at SYP was as Convener of the Transport, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee – so I’ve been passionate about these issues at both local and national level since starting my SYP journey!
- In terms of young people’s experience in Scotland of public transport, and barriers and opportunities – I’d should mention that we’ve just launched, last month at our 67th National Sitting, a national campaign on exactly that. Every year, SYP delivers a national campaign which focuses on a major issue affecting young people in Scotland. At SYP’s June 2018 National Sitting, MSYPs voted for ‘public transport’ to be the focus of the 2018-19 campaign, after consultation with over 10,500 young people across Scotland. This campaign is called All Aboard. All Aboard aims 'To improve young people's experience of public transport in Scotland'. To achieve this aim, the campaign will focus on three themes: Reducing fares: this theme will focus on improving existing concessionary rates on public transport for young people in Scotland up to their 26th birthday. Accessibility: this theme will focus on improving the accessibility of public transport and waiting areas for young people. Bus standards: this theme will focus on improving bus services and waiting standards for young people across Scotland. All Aboard will run in two phases between October 2018 and June 2019. We’re near the end of Phase One: Consultation, which focuses on collecting information about young people’s experiences of public transport, and will run from October 2018 until December 2018. During this phase, we want to find out what young people think could improve their experience of using public transport. The consultation had questions relating to each of the three campaign themes, and young people having been taking part in this consultation across the country in different ways, from filling out our online survey to running consultation workshops. The consultation closed on Monday 3rd December 2018, and our findings will be launched in January 2019. Phase Two: Action will be informed by the findings of the consultation in phase one. During this phase, MSYPs will carry out local actions to call for changes relating to each of the three campaign themes. This phase will run until the end of the current membership at the June 2019 Sitting.
- As you can see – when planning our campaign back in June – members reported that young people feel most passionate about the issues on-screen, especially fares, routes, accessibility, safety and reliability.
- Environment Unfortunately, environmental issues such as air pollution and health didn’t rank as highly, however, the Transport, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee has been advocating on these issues for the past year, for example, speaking at a Clean Air Day event and a Sea Scotland event in June, as well as discussing the issue of climate change at a consultation workshop last April with the Scottish Government to influence their Climate Change Policy Unit. In out of the 72,744 responses we received in our Lead the Way Manifesto consultation, 80% of young people agreed that: ‘Action should be taken to drastically tackle climate change, protect the environment, and promote green initiatives, such as investing in clean and renewable energy, reducing emissions, encouraging recycling, reducing waste, and investing in public and active transport.’ And clean air specifically has been highlighted as a concern by Scotland’s young people. “The air I walk through on the way to work isn't clean” “Air pollution in Aberdeen City increases the risk of breathing related conditions and diseases. “ These are just a few of the comments made by our constituents in a recent survey SYP carried out on the issue of climate change, in conjunction with the 2050 Climate Group. Young people agreed with the Low Emission Zones proposed in the Transport (Scotland) Bill. The Scottish Youth Parliament also supports the Paris Agreement, and urges the Scottish and UK Governments to continue to work with other nations to ensure that tackling climate change remains a global priority.’ – Committee Motion, 74% agreement, passed 26th March 2017.
- <Give examples from the following SYP Policy under these issues>. Theme: Fares ‘There should be reduced or concessionary travel for young people on all public transportation.’ - Lead the Way manifesto commitment, 77% agreement, launched 12th March 2016 (72,744 consultation responses). ‘Rural life should be improved for the young people of Scotland through better internet access, more affordable housing, more frequent and affordable transport, rural job creation and promotion, and more education opportunities in rural communities.’ – Lead the Way manifesto commitment, 84% agreement, launched 12th March 2016 (72,744 consultation responses). ‘The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that ScotRail 16 - 25 discount railcards should be made available to all of Scotland's young people at no cost.’ – Committee Motion, 76% agreement, passed 14th April 2018. ‘The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that concessionary or free transport should be provided for young and young adult carers in Scotland.’ - Members’ Motion, 96% agreement, passed 27th October 2017. Theme: Accessibility ‘The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that young people with disabilities and/or additional support needs should be consulted in the design and planning of public transport services to ensure that these services cater to their needs.’ – Members’ Motion, 99% agreement, passed 13th March 2016.* Theme: Standards and Safety ‘The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that vehicles used for school transport should be held to a higher minimum standard of quality and safety than at present.’ – Members’ Motion, 92% agreement, passed 9th June 2018. ‘The Scottish Youth Parliament believes that any guidance and publicity on raising awareness of the safety benefits of wearing seatbelts is co-designed with children and young people in order to ensure it is as effective as possible.’ – Recommendation, response to Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill stage 1, 25th April 2017.* ‘The Scottish Youth Parliament believes all communities in Scotland – whether urban or rural – should be entitled to a high standard of accessible, affordable and reliable public transport and should, where possible, be publicly owned.’ - Committee Motion, 90% agreement, passed 13th March 2016. In our response to the Transport (Scotland) Bill, young people recommended that: 4) A bus operator app and bus stop real-time displays should be installed, with the former including live updates and notifications, bus stop tracking and the ability to buy tickets with a QR code. 5) Wifi is needed at bus stops to ensure a bus operator app is fully accessible across Scotland. 6) Bus number and stop announcements are needed on buses for visitors and to ensure accessibility for people with sight and literacy issues.
- But all this isn’t necessarily news to most of you. This is an intergenerational and international issue which affects us all. And a lot of the barriers to changing behaviour, such as high cost and lack of understanding of why and how behaviour should be changed, and the potential solutions offered by young people aren’t massively different to that of adults. So I want to steer away from the specific environmental policy responses young people are calling and instead highlight an alternative tactic which is perhaps less commonly considered when tackling this issue: the human rights-based approach – based on the PANEL principles on the slide – but today I’ll focus only on participation. At the end of the day, the ultimate tragedy of problems such as air pollution, and climate change more generally, is that they are not an isolated policy area, and the effects it has on people, on individuals, are far from containable to the environment alone. Climate change will, if left unmitigated, impact all our rights in virtually every area: Air pollution in our cities as a result of uncontrolled carbon emissions has a direct and provable impact on the health of our young people and adults, violating several rights, including the fundamental right to health. Our young people are being failed by fundamental deficiencies in our education system, as they aren’t being educated to a satisfactory degree about the impacts and dangers of climate change and pollution – thus, their right to education is not being fulfilled. And further, Article 12 of the UNCRC guarantees young people the right to be consulted in all matters affecting them. This is, unfortunately, not currently the case with the Cleaner Air for Scotland Strategy. The principle of air pollution, and wider environmental issues, infringing on human rights applies to every single person: a fact that can be forgotten in the clamour for action. It’s an argument that we made throughout our last campaign on young people’s rights, Right Here, Right Now. We called for Scotland’s decision-makers to take a human rights-based approach to all policy-making, service provision, and planning, ensuring young people’s voices are at the heart of decisions affecting them. I used this line argument above when speaking on Climate Change during our Young People’s Rights Review: an event which gave MSYPs the chance to stand up and tell government what their constituents felt they should be doing to further protect young people’s rights. Using the recommendations from the UN Committee on the rights of the child as my basis, asked them to ensure that young people’s voices are heard in the discussions on climate change; I asked for them to respect young people’s right for human rights education, including how it links to the environment; and asked then to incorporate the UNCRC so that all of these rights are strengthened. I hope that, in additional to all the other excellent points made today’s participants, you take away an understanding of young people’s concerns around public transport and young people’s right to clean air. These are human rights issues for all of us and, we need to get All Aboard the intergenerational bandwagon to safeguard our future.
- Join me in this campaign by… Follow @OfficialSYP on Twitter, and use #AllAboardSYP to keep up to date with all the campaign discussions. Look out for our report with fresh recommendations on public transport, coming out in January 2018! Contact your local MSYP to find out about local campaign activities, using our website ‘Find your MSYP’ page. Visit the Events page to find out about upcoming events and opportunities. Read our letter on our website to the Scottish Parliament's Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee with findings from a consultation MSYPs carried out on the Transport (Scotland) Bill.
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and I am organising the Scottish Transport Emission Partnership conference 2018 will focus on progress delivering the Scottish Government’s Cleaner Air for Scotland Strategy and sharing best practice in sustainable transport. conference to hear about young people’s experience of public transport and travelling around Scotland, including what barriers/opportunities there are to accessing public transport for young people. young people’s experience of air pollution, transportation and health especially given 2018 is the Year of Young People.