{"id":606,"date":"2023-01-29T19:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015\/participation-requests\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:33:05","slug":"participation-requests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015\/participation-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part 3 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 provides a framework for the use of participation requests by community participation bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/yourrights\/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015\/\">A&nbsp;community participation body&nbsp;may make a request to a public service authority to permit the body to participate in an outcome improvement process<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scottish Government published guidance on Participation Requests in April 2017, and you can find this on the Scottish Government\u2019s website by clicking the link below:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.gov.scot\/publications\/community-empowerment-participation-request-guidance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/beta.gov.scot\/publications\/community-empowerment-participation-request-guidance\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are a community participation body and are considering submitting a participation request to NHS Lothian, please read the above guidance first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you would like to proceed with a participation request, then please email \u00a0<strong><a href=\"mailto:get.involved@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk\">get.involved@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 3 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 provides a framework for the use of participation requests by community participation bodies. A&nbsp;community participation body&nbsp;may make a request to a public service authority to permit the body to participate in an outcome improvement process. The Scottish Government published guidance on Participation Requests in April 2017,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":575,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"st3vi3b0y","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/blog\/author\/st3vi3b0y\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Part 3 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 provides a framework for the use of participation requests by community participation bodies. A&nbsp;community participation body&nbsp;may make a request to a public service authority to permit the body to participate in an outcome improvement process. The Scottish Government published guidance on Participation Requests in April 2017,","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions\/5628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}