Check out our responses to the Scottish Parliament Education, Children and Young People Committee on International Exchange Programmes and Erasmus+
YouthLink Scotland’s written response to the Scottish Parliament Education, Children and Young People Committee on International Exchange Programmes and Erasmus+
Erasmus+ was extremely valuable to the youth work and wider ‘youth’ sector, enabling life changing opportunities for young people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to travel, build friendships and learn from other cultures and places, often enabling them up to change trajectory and be in a position to pursue further education and employment. This is why we were delighted to reply to the Scottish Parliament Education, Children and Young People Committee on International Exchange Programmes and Erasmus+.
We are grateful to the many sector representatives for their contributions, including the Jack Kane Community Centre, Woodcraft Folk, Royston Youth Action, St Paul’s Youth Forum and the British Red Cross and many others. We are appreciative of the collaboration and learning from our colleagues across the UK and Europe on the benefits of international exchange and the imperative of Scottish Government to proceed with a replacement to Erasmus+ and to do so without delay. YouthLink Scotland and the sector stand ready to serve young people on these life changing opportunities once again.
YouthLink Scotland supplied oral evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on the benefit of international exchange programmes to the youth work sector and the devasting impact of the loss of Erasmus+ opportunities and the need for Scottish Government to replace the scheme in Scotland as soon as possible. We are grateful for the support of the sector in bringing evidence together and for your steadfast support for a renewed focus on Erasmus+ scheme replacement in Scotland.