Supporting Your Work with Young People

Our Team has worked with Young Scot for many years to support young people’s access to relevant youth information and opportunities for positive and active citizenship, locally and nationally. 

 Young Scot has been on hand to offer guidance and solutions for participatory budgeting, creative ways to share youth information, tailored resources we can use when working with young people and support to use them to improve attainment.  Our young people get the chance to be involved in both local and national initiatives because of our partnership. 
There is also specialist support available around web content creation, attainment
solutions, smart technology and co-design approaches.

Being a Young Scot partner means we regularly stay in touch with other organisations delivering similar activities and we can be part of a network of sharing good practice and innovative ways to support young people.

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I have worked with Young Scot for over 20 years and we have had a long-standing and positive relationship with Young Scot through the Youth Work service and in the last few years through the Oversight Group. Young people benefit from having a proactive youth services group which connects lots of services including transport, libraries, education and health. This ensures East Lothian young people benefit from the opportunities available through Young Scot. The creation of the Young Scot Oversight group in 2018 has ensured that relevant staff across the authority are engaged with the opportunities offered by Young Scot and can implement smart, or other, solutions for young people in the area. This group helps to reduce duplication, allocate roles across the authority and ensures all relevant services have input into new developments.

Our partnership ensures that East Lothian young people are familiar with all the benefits the Young Scot National Entitlement Card (Young Scot NEC) offers. It also helps to ensure that young people know how they can access social media that is quality-assured, timely and accessible information from across Scotland, in a positive way.

The partnership also provides other opportunities such as voting for Scottish Youth Parliament, participatory budgeting, support with web content, coming out to local events and schools, co-design approaches and other positive local and national initiatives.

Being a Young Scot partner means we regularly have links with other local authorities and third-sector youth services who deliver similar activities and we can be part of a network of sharing good practice and inventive ways to support young people.