How it plans to promote constructive dialogue between faith and belief communities and enhance the interaction these communities have with …

The Scottish Government is committed to promoting constructive dialogue between faith and belief communities and uses established fora, such as the Faith Liaison Advisory Group, to do this. We also meet with organisations such as Faith in Communities Scotland to discuss inter-community relations and are pleased that faith and belief communities have participated in national conversation events.
Additionally in April we established the independent Scottish Working Group on Religion and Belief Relations to consider how to promote constructive dialogue between religious and belief communities. The working group has been given the following remit:
To develop a Scottish strategic framework which can be used to encourage constructive dialogue between religious and belief communities and support the Scottish Government in promoting positive activity between these communities.
The working group is currently taking forward consultation with stakeholders and interest groups, and I have asked them to make their recommendations to me in early 2009.