Our 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.
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