World Youth Skills Day

That the Parliament recognises that 15 July 2020 is World Youth Skills Day, which seeks to promote the importance of equipping young people with the skills for work, decent employment and entrepreneurship; believes that World Youth Skills Day 2020 occurs within an extremely challenging context with the backdrop of COVID-19 affecting education, apprenticeships and economic opportunities; understands that the International Labour Organisation’s analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the labour market shows that more than one in six young people are now out of work; considers that it is important to ensure that young people in Scotland have access to skills development to enable them to fulfil their potential, and believes that it is important for Scotland to work with its partner countries, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia and Pakistan, to empower the young to succeed and manage changing circumstances in national and world economies.