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Peer Led Approach to Substance Misuse Education

Young Scot has teamed up with the Scottish Government to find out what young people in Scotland think about drugs education. We'd like to find out what you want to know, where you find out about drugs now, what's the best way to learn about drugs and if you know what 'peer education' is.

Your views are really important so we want to hear what you think - tell us! You can add your comments and take our quick survey so could be in with the chance of winning £50 iTunes vouchers.

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Renfrewshire Youth Survey 2010

Renfrewshire Council's Youth Services Department are interested in what you guys think about being a young person in Renfrewshire today. We want you to tell us about what affects you, what works well and what doesn't work so well where you live. Subjects such as safety, learning, the environment, health and wellbeing, handling money and accessing services are included. We hope to use the results of this consultation to better shape the Service we deliver to you and overall make Renfrewshire a better place for young people.

This is your chance to have a say and impact the things going on round about you. Your answers are confidential and will be kept safe. We have also put links to relevant services if you would like more information on certain topics we cover. Remember the Young Scot website has channels of information and signposting

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East Lothian Transport Survey

Young Scot: Access all Areas” Transport Survey for East Lothian is a project aimed at empowering young people to influence service provision in their local area, enhance access and promote inclusion.

A small group of young people from East Lothian working in partnership with Young Scot and East Lothian Council to get young people views on transport.

It would be highly appreciated if you could be of help, this will only take a few minutes and you can win an HMV voucher.

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Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS

Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS set up the Child Protection Unit at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) in 2006 to help health staff when they have concerns about a child’s safety. The key reason the Child Protection Unit exists is to protect children from abuse and neglect. Every three years they make plans both for the Unit and for the training that it provides. They strongly believe that young people should be involved in decisions that affect them, so would welcome any views, opinions and suggestions that you might have. If you’re aged between 11 and 19, and live in either Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and East and West Dunbartonshire then please take a couple of minutes to complete a short survey.

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Oban and Lorn Housing Survey

Argyll and Bute Young Scot has teamed up with Quarriers project in Oban to look at the issues around housing in the Oban and Lorn area for young people. We want to know what you think about existing housing, the services on offer and your views on how we can make things better. Your views are really important to us and will help shape the future of housing services in the area. To show our appreciation, Quarriers are offering a £100 prize which will be drawn when the consultation ends. So if you live in the Oban and Lorn area of Argyll, please just take a couple of minutes to compete the survey.

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Third Party Damage

Alcohol Focus Scotland and Young Scot have created a short survey to look at how young people are affected by the alcohol consumption (drinking) of adults around them. This is called 'Third Party Damage', and we feel that the issues around this need to be highlighted in order for anything to be done about them. It's really important that adults realise how their drinking can impact on others, so we would like to know what you think.

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HUWY -Cyberbullying

These days bullying doesn’t just happen face to face. Cyberbullying – or bullying via digital technologies like mobile phones and computers – is a different threat. It can be harder to spot and more difficult to stop than ‘traditional’ bullying.

What's different about cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is different to other forms of bullying because:

•it can occur anytime, anywhere – the victim can even receive bullying messages or materials at home
•the audience to the bullying can be large and reached very quickly and easily if messages are passed around or things are posted online
•it can can be unintentional – people may not think about the consequences of sending messages or images

We want your thoughts on cyberbullying and what can be done about it.

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HUWY - ID Theft, Privacy, and your Info

Perhaps the most prominent form of cybercrime is identity theft, in which criminals use the Internet to steal personal information from other users. Two of the most common ways this is done is through phishing and pharming. Both of these methods lure users to fake websites (that appear to be legitimate), where they are asked to enter personal information. This includes login information, such as usernames and passwords, phone numbers, addresses, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and other information criminals can use to "steal" another person's identity.

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HUWY - Child Abuse

Online child abuse includes:

1.making and downloading images of children being sexually abused;
and/or
2.approaching a child online for sex. This could be sex online (e.g. sexual activity via text or webcam) or sex offline (e.g. grooming a child online for the purpose of meeting up for sex in the "real" world).

Due to the nature of child abuse, it is difficult to assess the full extent of online child abuse. It has, however, been estimated that there are over 100,000 websites worldwide containing images of children being abused. It has also been estimated that 1 in 5 young Internet users have received unwanted sexual solicitation through the Internet. Estimates regarding the number of young Internet users who have been exposed to sexual material on the Internet vary from 25-35%.

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HUWY - Filesharing

Filesharing is a hot topic. The debate about whether you should be cut off for filesharing raises a lot of interesting issues about access to the Internet and who should control it. This survey is designed to find out what you think about filesharing, what's legal, why filesharing mightn't be all bad and some statistics on the economics of filesharing.