This report outlines findings from a survey conducted by Fast Forward and Young Scot and commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) to gain top-level insights into young people’s views on gambling and gaming.
Read MorePublic Health Scotland’s Young People’s Panel met to produce a set of recommendations that inform Public Health Scotland how their organisation can continue to engage with young people, supporting their health and wellbeing in the process.
Read MorePublic Health Scotland’s Young People’s Panel met to to explore factors that impact the mental health and wellbeing of young people.
Read MoreScottish Youth Parliament, Youthlink Scotland and Young Scot have published the latest report in our #LockdownLowdown series. This version gives a deeper insight into how young people feel about COVID-19 as lockdown eases in Spring/Summer 2021.
Read MoreThe Youth Loneliness Panel has worked in collaboration with Young Scot, funded by the Co-op Foundation, as part of a two-year project focused on raising awareness of and tackling Youth Loneliness. The Panel developed a survey to gather insights and experiences from young people on what the main issues are around loneliness and what needs to be implemented to support any young people who are experiencing loneliness.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government and Young Scot have been partnering since 2019 to learn more about young people’s knowledge of and opinions about sexual behaviours occurring online. This is part of ongoing work following publication of the report of the Expert Group on Preventing Sexual Offending Involving Children and Young People, and follows the original survey work published in February 2020.
Read MoreScottish Youth Parliament, Youthlink Scotland and Young Scot has published an expanded version of the second iteration of the #LockdownLowdown survey. This gives a deeper insight into how young people feel about the COVID-19 lockdown.
Read MoreOur new LockdownLowdown research into the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 on Scotland’s young people suggests that nearly two in five do not feel optimistic about their future employment prospects. It also shows that 41% of those in part-time employment have seen their contracted hours reduced as a result of the pandemic.
Read MoreIn 2018, the Scottish Government’s Technology Enabled Care and Digital Healthcare Innovation Division worked with us on a short pilot project, exploring how digital technology could improve young people’s health and wellbeing. Following the success of this pilot, the Scottish Government partnered with us to establish a national Strategic Participation Panel.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government asked our #YSHealth panel of volunteers to develop ideas, recommendations and solutions to protect young people from alcohol marketing in Scotland. Our volunteers presented their findings and recommendations to Ministers Maree Todd MSP and Joe FitzPatrick MSP.
Read MoreYoung Scot facilitated a workshop to discuss the priorities of young people in the medium-term Economic and Employment recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown in Scotland. A variety of young people who are Young Scot volunteers met digitally in June to explore these priorities.
Read MoreYoung Scot facilitated a workshop to discuss the priorities of young people in the medium-term recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. A variety of young people who are Young Scot volunteers met digitally in May over Zoom to explore these priorities.
Read MoreScottish Youth Parliament, Youthlink Scotland and Young Scot has published an expanded version of the #LockdownLowdown report. This gives a deeper insight into how young people feel about the COVID-19 lockdown. The latest version of the #LockdownLowdown report provides demographic breakdowns of young people’s views of our Key Findings report, including rural and urban areas, SIMD, age, gender, education/employment status and ethnicity.
Read MoreIn partnership with our friends at the Scottish Youth Parliament and YouthLink Scotland, we asked young people from every community in Scotland to share their concerns about COVID-19.
Read MoreIn early 2019, the Scottish Government was interested in finding out more about young people’s knowledge of and opinions about sexual behaviours occurring online. To help achieve this, they approached Young Scot to host and disseminate an online survey.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government was the first government in the world to make period products free to students when they launched the scheme in 2018.
Working in partnership Young Scot, the Scottish Government has identified that amongst those who accessed the free products, 84% said the scheme had a positive impact on them.
Read MoreYoung Scot and the Scottish Government established a partnership to deliver a ‘Ting’ to identify the main issues of importance to young people around death and dying. Through this broader conversation Young Scot looked to begin to develop understanding of the right support required for young people around bereavement.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government, Young Scot and SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) worked in partnership to deliver a 16-month Youth Commission on Mental Health Services.
Read MoreYoung Scot delivered a series of workshopswith two Loneliness Action Teamson behalf of the Co-operative Foundation to engage young people on the topic of Youth Loneliness.Throughout these workshops Young Scot and the Loneliness Action Teamsexplored young people’s experience of loneliness
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