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Autumn Events

Delegates from a wide range of organisations will come together for the annual Young England and Wales Programme at Lancaster in late September.

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The annual Young Scotland and Northern Ireland Programme will take place in November. The venue this year is North Queensferry in Fife.

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Young Public Sector

The 2012 Young Public Sector Programme will be staged at Lancaster in May. Thirty-seven delegates will be taking part.

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Young Scotland Spring 2012

The delegates

Twenty-six delegates from the private sector, the public sector and Scottish charities met in North Queensferry in March for the first Young Scotland Programme of the 2012 season. In an event hallmarked by superb team spirit inside and radiant sunshine outside, solicitor Morag McCracken of Balfour + Manson LLP carried off the title Scotland Young Thinker of the Year (shared with the winner of the autumn Young Scotland Programme). Her paper on tuition fees in Scottish universities was described by the adjudicator as 'an intriguing take on the subject, delivered with a calm, confident presentational style'. Her On the Spot question 'Is the great Scottish countryside accessible to all?' morphed into a moving tribute to her own mother.

Alistair Hayes of the Refugee Survival Trust took the runner-up title, Richard Wilson of Morton Fraser LLP was highly commended and Owen Fenn of the Scottish Refugee Council was commended. The winning group was group C – Morag McCracken, Balfour + Manson LLP, Sarah Secombes, Children's Hospice Association Scotland, Gavin Sherriff, City of Edinburgh Council, Louise Turner, Tayside Police – with two presentations described as 'well-rounded, thoughtful, mature and willing to dig deep to explore life's complexities...they never dodged a thing'.

Stuart Miller of the Ethnic Minorities Law Centre won a special award for Best On the Spot with his humorous presentation on: 'Since when did children have to be so cool?'.

Scotland Young Thinker of the Year 2012, Morag McCracken

 

Group C