Chamber and committees

For the Young Person’s Guarantee to achieve its aims, the Scottish Government recognises that it must meaningfully engage with a variety of stakeholders, participants and youth organisations. Implementation of the Guarantee will be a collective endeavour involving collaboration across partners.

We have established an Implementation Group for the Guarantee chaired by Sandy Begbie whose memberships consists of stakeholders from the public sector (including Skills Development Scotland, local government, education partners, and DWP), third sector (including equality groups and youth organisations), and private sector. The Group has developed a high-level Activity Plan , published on 5 November 2020, setting out the key activity to be taken forward and built upon when implementing the Guarantee. This includes activity around communications and engagement to promote the Guarantee.

The Scottish Government has been clear that young people must be central to the design and implementation of the Guarantee to ensure that the issues which matter to them are reflected. We are continuing to engage with young people themselves and trusted organisations that represent them, for example Young Scot and Intercultural Youth Scotland. Reports from this initial engagement activity were published alongside the Activity Plan. Young Scot are also currently establishing a Young Person’s Guarantee Leadership Panel and we have also committed to ensuring that a diverse range of young people and youth organisations are involved in the governance structures of the Guarantee.

Employer engagement and leadership are further key to developing the Guarantee and securing future employment for young people. Initial employer engagement saw a number of organisations, from both the public and private sector, step up to be early adopters of the 5 asks of employers. This work is set to continue and a comprehensive employer engagement strategy is underway to ensure employer commitment in supporting Scotland’s young people.