Whether you are receiving sponsorship, teaming up to deliver some digital skills training, taking advantage of some new kit or software, or writing an agreement for a suite of longer-term partnering activities, this set of guidelines is here to support you to both create and sustain ethical partnerships with technology companies.
Explore the toolset to build robust, positive and ethical relationships with technology companies. These resources have been designed with input from youth work organisations and technology companies. The aim is to help youth work organisation recognise opportunities, define their offer and take positive control of the process of building partnerships. Read Get Started, and then select the tools that suit your situation.
Please feed back to info@youthlink.scot if you have thoughts, comments or questions about using these tools.
This tool helps you break down the practical steps required when thinking about entering into a partnership with a technology company. This also helps to frame where the other tools in this support pack may be of use to you.
This tool helps you to identify and communicate your organisation’s distinctive strengths. Use this before entering partnerships conversations or at the earliest stage possible.
Understand the ways in which you can put this tool into practice in your youth work organisation.
This tool helps you to introduce some challenging topic areas – such as trust, transparency, culture and ethical compatibility – in a soft and friendly way. It is key that this tool is shared and adopted by both organisations with equal importance. Use this Charter throughout the lifetime of the partnership.
Understand the variety of ways in which you can put this Charter into practice across both organisations throughout the lifetime of the partnership.
This tool supports youth work organisations to assess ethical, safeguarding, and reputational risks when considering a partnership with a technology company. Sharing the outputs of this risk review process with the technology company counterpart encourages openness and transparency.
Understand the process to follow to perform your risk assessment.
This practical checklist supports organisations to build clear, ethical, and youth‑centred partnership agreements. This is useful at the point of drawing up an agreement (legal or otherwise) but can be referenced on an ongoing basis through the lifetime of the partnership.
Understand when and where this checklist may be useful.
YouthLink Scotland worked with Alex Hutchison, ForrData to explore what the youth work sector needs and then develop those ideas into practical tools rather than creating static guidelines. The outputs are the result of consultation with both youth work and technology organisations. The work was funded by the Include Plus Network.
