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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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Justice for Children and Young People: Vision and Priorities 2024-26
This vision represents a shared foundation between the Scottish Government and partners to continue to support the agenda to keep children out of the criminal justice system and promote the use of the Whole System Approach.
  • Topic:  Crime
  • Date:  19 June, 2024

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School Leaver Follow-up Destinations
Scotland’s Chief Statistician has published ‘Summary statistics for follow-up leaver destinations’ for 2022-23 school leavers. These cover the destinations of school leavers nine months after the end of the school year.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  18 June, 2024

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Scottish Children’s Health Awards 2024
Do you know someone who has gone above and beyond to help improve children and young people’s health and wellbeing? Or a young person who deserves some special recognition? Nominations close 12th July.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  17 June, 2024

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Social Housing Sector: Youth Engagement
This study was commissioned by the Scottish Government in order to gain a better understanding of the baseline of youth engagement in the Scottish social housing sector.
  • Topic:  Housing/Homelessness, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  17 June, 2024

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Investigating Alcohol-Related Quality of Life, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Distress
The research team at Queen’s University Belfast is inviting young people aged 15-17 in the UK and Ireland, who have drunk alcohol in the last three months, to fill out their 20-minute online survey about quality of life, alcohol use and its consequences, mental health, and regulating emotions.
  • Topic:  Addiction, Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  17 June, 2024

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Youth partnership seminar UK-Germany - applications now open!
Applications are now open for youth leaders to take part in our youth partnership seminar in Berlin from 19 – 21 September 2024.
  • Topic:  International
  • Date:  14 June, 2024

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Labour Market Statistics for 16 to 24 Year Olds
Statistics from the Annual Population Survey covering the period from April 2023 to March 2024 for Scotland and the United Kingdom.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  13 June, 2024

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National Youth Work Awards Winners 2024
A huge congratulations to our newest array of National Youth Work Awards winners! Meet the faces and the teams behind some of the very best youth work in Scotland.
  • Topic:  National Youth Work Awards
  • Date:  13 June, 2024

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Young People Reveal Challenges of Caring Role in New Film Supported by Barnardo's
A group of young carers in Aberdeen have created an exciting new film inspired by retro video games based on their caring experiences.
  • Topic:  Care
  • Date:  11 June, 2024

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Give an X Campaign
YouthLink Scotland is supporting the Give an X Campaign to get young people voting and are delighted to share some resources from Give an X that you can use on your social media to encourage young people to register to vote.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  11 June, 2024

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30 Under 30
The Young Women's Movement's annual campaign to celebrate young women, girls and
non-binary people in Scotland who are making changes in their communities and wider society is open for nominations until 1st July.
  • Topic:  Equality, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  10 June, 2024

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2024 SURF Awards
Highlight, celebrate and share your achievements addressing physical, social and economic challenges in communities across Scotland. The deadline for nominations is Monday 2nd September.
  • Topic:  Prevention & Early Intervention, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  10 June, 2024

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