The Youth Work Education Recovery Fund was established to enable the sector to engage young people in some of the country’s most vulnerable communities and support their educational, social and emotional recovery in the wake of the pandemic.

Projects were awarded funding across all of Scotland’s 32 local authorities and were designed to support effective partnership working between youth work organisations (statutory and third sector) and formal education. Many projects also included elements of outdoor learning and creative arts.

All of the projects sought to deliver at least three of the following outcomes:

• Developing young people’s skills, including interpersonal skills
• Improving young people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing
• Enabling young people to overcome barriers to learning
• Increasing young people’s engagement in learning
• Improving school attendance
• Recognition of young people’s wider achievement and attainment
• Improving young people’s literacy and numeracy
• Building readiness for work
• Securing positive destinations