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Effective Youth Work Approaches to Tackling Attendance
Check out our new resources aimed at supporting schools and youth work teams to enable them to work together to create the right conditions for engagement and learning.
National Youth Work Awards 2025
Shining a light on Scotland’s youth work heroes! Nominations for this year’s National Youth Work Awards are open until 10th January.
Members Network
Members Network
We are pleased to open bookings for our final Members Network meeting of 2024. This meeting will focus on empowering young people to have a healthy relationship with their phone. Please note this event is for members of YouthLink Scotland only. Online 12th December
Upstream Prevention: The Vital Role of Youth Work - Link Magazine 2024
The latest sector magazine explores youth work's role in prevention through upstream solutions.

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First Minister hears calls for youth work investment at annual young people's cabinet event
John Swinney and a number of his Cabinet attended the annual Cabinet for Children and Young People, meeting members from Scottish Youth Parliement and Children's Parliament.
  • Topic:  Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  21 November, 2024

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Progressing the Human Rights of Children in Scotland: Update Report 2021-2024
This report provides an update on the delivery of commitments outlined in Scottish Government’s action plan ‘Progressing the human rights of children in Scotland: action plan 2021 to 2024’.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  20 November, 2024

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Police Use of Force on Children Investigated by Children’s Commissioner
The Children and Young People’s Commissioner has launched an investigation into Police Scotland’s use of force against children.
  • Topic:  Crime, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  20 November, 2024

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How do Children Feel about the Impact of Smartphones and Social Media?
NSPCC asked their Voice of Online Youth and Young People’s Board for Change to share their thoughts on smartphones, social media and getting your first phone. Find out what they said...
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work
  • Date:  19 November, 2024

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New Campaign Launched to Combat Online Sextortion
Campaign to reassure young people and their carers on how to protect themselves against emerging threat of online sextortion.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  19 November, 2024

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The King’s Award for Voluntary Service
The King’s Award for Voluntary Service awardees come from the length and breadth of the UK, showcasing the very best of volunteering in our villages, towns and cities. The deadline for nominations is 1st December.
  • Topic:  Active Youth Work
  • Date:  18 November, 2024

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Young People from YMCA Scotland Join Nationwide Youth and Democracy Network
Young people from Edinburgh, Fife and Tayside have joined the first workshop of a new nationwide youth network to re-imagine the future of democracy.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  18 November, 2024

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YouthLink Scotland Backs Outdoor Residential Bill to Boost Young People’s Development
YouthLink Scotland Supports Stage 1 of the Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (Scotland) Bill.
  • Topic:  Outdoor Learning, Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  18 November, 2024

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Respect for All: The National Approach to Anti-Bullying
New guidance to support schools and organisations working with children and young people to develop comprehensive anti-bullying policies and improve behaviour and relationships has been published.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  13 November, 2024

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Young Scots Looking to Jobs in Health, Creative Industries and Engineering
Skills Development Scotland (SDS) has published its Pupil Voice research which reveals nearly one in five 16-to-18-year-olds in Scotland want jobs in the medicine and health sector when they finish their studies.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  12 November, 2024

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Young People and Gambling 2024: Official statistics
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2024.
  • Topic:  Addiction, Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  12 November, 2024

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The Scottish Health Survey 2023
This report presents results for the Scottish Health Survey 2023, providing information on the health and factors relating to health of people living in Scotland.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  12 November, 2024

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