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Our campaigns

Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament vote on topics for national campaigns each Membership. Read about our current issues, as well as the work accomplished in our previous campaigns.

Watch the video above to learn about some of the Scottish Youth Parliament’s past campaigns, what they set out to do, and what they achieved.

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Increase mental health training and education

Our stance “There should be mandatory training for those working in education and health care…

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Invest in and protect youth work services

Our stance “Local youth work should be invested in by national and local government and…

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End gender-based violence

Our stance “The Scottish Youth Parliament recognises many girls and women feel unsafe in public…

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Need to engage with young people in your project?

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Educational Attainment

We want to urge decision-makers to take a rights-based approach to education reform to close the attainment gap and as…

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Youth Work and Me

Youth work changes lives, yet in recent years we have seen youth work budgets being cut across the country.

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Right to Food

We want to….improve young people’s knowledge of and access to the right to food in Scotland!…

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National Campaign Priorities

We work to bring your voices to decision makers and design innovative, youth led campaigns to proactively create the changes…

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Drugs Related-Harm as a Public Health Issue

We want to urge the Scottish Government and decision-makers to do all it can within its powers to tackle drug-related…

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