Welcome to Young Scot Hive #YSHive - the evolution of our service design approach.

Co-designed with young people, Young Scot Hive #YSHive supports organisations to partner with young people to define, design and deliver new policies and improvements to services.

#YSHive empowers young people to be system changers and influencers by sharing power with organisations and tackling society’s toughest challenges.

Our skills, design models and tools support our #YSHive young volunteers to:  

• Explore: Frame the vision, probe problems and question the big picture

• Create: Seek opportunities to prototype and play with ideas to take a deeper dive into the issues 

• Disrupt: Test ideas in the ‘real world’ and question the future to learn if they have value 

• Act: Share learning stories and pitch bold ideas to challenge decision-makers and influence real system change 

Access is at the heart of everything we do, and we are inclusive by design and are rights-based. We don’t accept discrimination or prejudice in any form and support young people to actively pursue ways of tackling it through our projects. This ensures that all young people, including those whose voices are seldom heard, and those who experience discrimination, take part and are valued. 

Having young people at the core of your improvement ambitions ensures that the final ideas, concepts and recommendations are based on the needs of current and future citizens.

This approach allows you to work in partnership with young people from all backgrounds and benefit from their expertise, insight, creativity and talent. You can support young people to have more say in decisions that affect them and supports the delivery of Scotland’s National Performance Framework and other key policy frameworks. These include the Community Empowerment Scotland Act, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Getting it Right for Every Child.

Join #YSHive

Please tell us what you think about #YSHive by tagging us on Twitter @youngscot and using hashtag #YSHive. You can also help spread the word about this movement by sharing our Tweet.

Please also join us for System Changers Unleashed: Collaborating with young people to future-proof policy and service design in Scotland. This online event is taking place on Wed 2 September 2020 and will give you insight into our new service design approach. You’ll also get the chance to collaborate with young people during short interactive facilitated workshops. Sign up today!