Young People's Response to Medium Term COVID-19 Recovery

Young 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 on Tuesday 5th May over Zoom to explore these priorities.

This workshop aimed to explore the following key areas of discussion:

• The medium and longer-term impacts of Covid-19 on Scotland.

• The positive reforms and shifts emerging from the crisis. This includes both:

  • positive changes to behaviours or practices made in response to Covid 19 that we want to keep or harness

  • opportunities to drive change as a consequence of the crisis

• The recovery responses that are most relevant for Scotland in light of the impacts and opportunities, including both priorities and early policy ideas.

There was also some time spent exploring how young people have been spending their time during their period at home, their approaches to staying positive and motivated and the challenges they have been facing.

This report summarises the output of various activities the young people took part in as part of the two-hour digital session, as well as an overview of the 49 young people who attended.

You can scroll through a preview of our report below or download a full pdf version using the Download button.