Children and Young People’s Evidence Bank

The Evidence Bank was originally developed by Children in Scotland as an internal resource to directly capture the voices of children and young people on a range of diverse subjects, recorded during our Participation and Engagement and project work.

But thanks to supportive discussions with the Corra Foundation and funding from the National Third Sector GIRFEC Project, it is now an online resource that practitioners and researchers across Scotland and beyond can use.

The site houses an ever-growing library of reports, quotes and research findings, and users can search for evidence by theme, or look for quotes or individual reports. They can create a user account if they would like to download any of the reports as PDFs.

Notably, the Evidence Bank is a collection of direct quotes from children and young people from across the country on a diverse range of subjects, taken from both academic articles and reports from leading organisations from across the children’s sector.

The evidence is divided into sections for ease of use, including ‘Health & Wellbeing’, ‘Education & Learning’, and ‘Culture, Media & The Arts’.

The website is a living resource, with content continually sourced and uploaded. Users can upload their own reports, which will go through a quick approval process before being shared on the site.

Children in Scotland members and our network across the country are invited to submit any suitable reports or research of their own, in order to keep building the site into a national community resource.