{"id":4866,"date":"2019-03-12T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:03:35","slug":"scottish-youth-parliament-elections-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/2019\/03\/12\/scottish-youth-parliament-elections-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Youth Parliament Elections 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Calderhead High School pupils will be joining young people all over Scotland to cast their votes in the Scottish Youth Parliament elections, which are taking place from 15th to 28th March, 2019.<\/p>\n

Elections for the SYP are held every two years and young people aged 14 to 25 are eligible to vote to elect Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYPs). The Scottish Youth Parliament is a politically-independent organisation that aims to represent the young people of Scotland. It is made up of around 150 young people aged from 14\u221225 across Scotland. Every constituency area can elect a MSYP to represent the views and opinions of young people. In addition some MSYPs also attend representing Voluntary Organisations. The SYP meets three times a year to listen to and recognise the issues that are most important to young people, ensuring that their voices are heard by decision-makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calderhead High School pupils will be joining young people all over Scotland to cast their votes in the Scottish Youth Parliament elections, which are taking place from 15th to 28th March, 2019. Elections for the SYP are held every two years and young people aged 14 to 25 are eligible to vote to elect Members … Continue reading Scottish Youth Parliament Elections 2019<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[499696,499801],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mysp","tag-scottish-parliament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}