As part of a continued partnership with Scottish Forestry, Young Scot engaged with young people to co-design a content campaign around Scotland’s Forestry Strategy. The aims of the campaign were to share information about the forestry sector and communicate opportunities for young people to be involved in the sector.
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 MoreLìbhrig Young Scot, ann an com-pàirteachas le Bòrd na Gàidhlig, suirbhidh gus tuigse a mheudachadh air mar a bhios daoine òga a’ cleachdadh Gàidhlig air-loidhne, agus gus na goireasan agus na meadhanan a tha iad a’ cleachdadh as trice gus susbaint agus fiosrachaidh a lorg a chomharrachadh.
Young Scot, in partnership with Bòrd na Gàidhlig, delivered a survey to increase understanding of how young people engage with Gaelic online, and identify the resources and mediums they use most when looking for content and information.
Read MoreYoung Scot delivered an initial one-off Jam event with the Scottish Government to work directly with young people to explore the Children’s Strategic Framework in the recovery from COVID-19, understand young people’s vision as part of the recovery and their hopes and ambitions for young people’s involvement in shaping this in future.
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 MoreThe Just Transition Commission and Young Scot explored young people’s insights and their ideas for potential solutions to the transition to Net Zero. The focus of workshops was how to support businesses, sectors and industries to ensure that the shift to Net Zero is fair and equitable.
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 MoreVentureJam is a pioneering talent development programme, designed and delivered by Glasgow City of Science and Innovation and Young Scot. Teams of 14-20-year-olds from all over Scotland come together to co-create new and innovative ideas to tackle a major environmental challenge in Scotland. The challenge theme for 2019 was food waste.
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 MoreIn 2018, a strategic partnership was established between Young Scot and the Scottish Government. This aimed to enhance the existing success and engagement of DYW regional groups it did this by offering insight; and recommend further steps that could be taken to ensure that the voices and views of young people are at the heart of DYW both nationally and locally.
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 MoreWe partnered with Scottish Forestry and used our Young Scot Co-design process to find out how young people use of forests, and discover their visions for the future of forests & woodlands.
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