Public Health Scotland’s Young People’s Panel met to to explore factors that impact the mental health and wellbeing of young people.
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As part of a partnership, Young Scot and Historic Environment Scotland established the HistoricScot Youth Forum. The aims of the Forum were to explore how to involve young people in the heritage sector and how to make the sector more accessible for young people. This report describes their recommendations on how to make the heritage sector more reflective of young people’s needs.
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Scottish 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.
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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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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Lìbhrig 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.
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Young 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.
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Scottish 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.
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The 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.
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