NSPCC and Scottish Youth Parliament are working together on a youth -led project to improve child safety online in Scotland. This is being led by a group of 10 young people from the Scottish Youth Parliament who are passionate about ensuring that decisions made to reduce online harms targeting children and young people in Scotland directly consider actual young peoples’ experiences and opinions.
There will be six regional groups from different areas of Scotland who will take part in workshops led by the working group. The group is open to young people aged 14-18.
This project is an incredible opportunity for working group members to create national-level change to protect children and young people’s right to be safe online, along the way:
· Collaborating with a team of motivated young people.
· Developing organisational and planning skills.
· Becoming confident facilitators and youth advocates.
· Designing creative approaches to addressing difficult topics – targeted at young people and the adults in their lives.
Key activities of the working group include:
· Receiving relevant project training to upskill in planning, insight-gathering, youth-friendly facilitation, meaningful participation, project evaluations, and communication.
· Designing and leading in-person and online sessions with regional voice groups to explore key issues in children and young peoples’ safety online.
· Co-designing resources with regional voice group members to help young people campaign for changes related to child safety online.
· Taking action to amplify children and young people’s views through meeting with Scottish decision-makers and tracking campaign influence.
· Meeting with young people who are leading project mechanisms in Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as the Voice of Online Youth to share project learnings and successes.
· Running an online event in November 2025 to showcase the child online safety tools they’ve developed to key Scottish stakeholders and decision-makers.
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