Louise Macdonald: ‘We’re still not seeing the reality of young people’s lives’

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Louise Macdonald is a woman who wears multiple hats. As the chair of the Scottish government’s Advisory Council on Women and Girls – established last November by the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon – she has been charged with no lesser a task than “improving the lives of women and girls in Scotland”.

And that’s not even her day job. Macdonald is chief executive of Young Scot, the award-winning youth information and citizenship charity. Throughout 2018, Young Scot is a key partner in the country’s Year of Young People, an ambitious cavalcade of events encompassing everyone from youth offenders in Polmont to young traditional music players in the Highlands.

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