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SCOTLAND VALUES ITS YOUNG PEOPLE
As successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors (National Outcome 4), the vast majority of young people make a valuable contribution to our communities today and will play a leading role in building the more successful Scotland we all want to see in the future. Nurturing and supporting those qualities in young people will help them navigate the challenges of adolescence and the transition into adulthood, as well as strengthening the role they can play in making Scotland smarter, healthier, wealthier & fairer, safer & stronger and greener.
Valuing Young People has been designed to support partners deliver positive outcomes for all young people, while recognising that some need more help than others to realise their potential. It is founded on the principle of partnership: partnership with young people that offers them participation in their communities and local services; but also partnership across national and local government and the voluntary sector to provide the right kind of access to services that meets the diverse needs of young people.
The principles and connections outlined in this paper have been developed with the constructive input of young people across Scotland who responded to a survey and participated in a set of focus groups designed specifically for them and conducted by Young Scot. It also reflects the experience and understanding of many partners, including local government, as to what works best for young people.
The National Performance Framework underpins delivery of the Scottish Government's agenda, supporting the outcomes-based approach to performance. Within the Framework, the national outcomes describe what the Government wants to achieve over the next ten years. The aim of this paper is to provide a resource that looks across all the services and supports that work for young people and in doing so it provides a simple set of principles that can be used to support delivery across all 15 of the National Outcomes but which are particularly relevant to National Outcome 4.
These principles draw on those that have been established in a range of related policies, most notably Getting it right for every child, distilling those into something that is concise, easy to understand and, we hope, readily transferable into a range of services and plans. We are grateful to the many partners who have helped to shape that work.
Whether underpinning policy for delivery at a national level or providing a reference for local delivery by councils and their community planning partners, we are confident that, by working to these principles, any organisation or partnership can contribute to supporting young people to develop their potential. The number and range of organisations who have agreed to sign up as partners to this document reflects a strong commitment across sectors, and across Scotland, to doing so.
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