Motion · S3M-07226 · 18 Oct 2010

Face Equality for Children

Lodged by Malcolm Chisholm Standard Motion 29 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates the charity Changing Faces on its Face Equality for Children campaign; recognises that approximately 7,500 children in Scotland have a significant facial disfigurement and believes that negative assumptions about this often result in prejudice and discrimination that might lead to low academic achievement, reduced employability and a poor quality of life; supports the campaign’s objective of challenging those negative assumptions and in mobilising education, health and other public services to achieve that objective, and looks forward to the time when all such children are treated fairly and equally and able to realise their full potential.

Supporters (29)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.