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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.
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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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PVG & Signatory - Face to Face Training
All you need to know to act as a signatory, with an introduction to the PVG legislation.
  • Date:  14 January, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Stirling

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Understanding Autism: Level 1 - Inclusion
This is an interactive workshop exploring what is meant by Autism, raise the awareness of how to work with a young person in a youth work setting and explore briefly other conditions that may co-occur with autism such as ADHD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia.
  • Date:  15 January, 2025
  • Time:  18:00 - 21:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Tackling Sectarianism CPD Training
The Tackling Sectarianism CPD training will provide youth workers with the tools they need to engage young people on the topic of sectarianism, prejudice and hate in Scotland.
  • Date:  21 January, 2025
  • Time:  13:00 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Person-centred Planning: Helping Children Determine Their Own Futures
Start off the new year by developing person-centred planning tools to support the children and young people you work with.This session is aimed at professionals working with children and young people in a direct setting.
  • Date:  23 January, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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PVG & Signatory - Face to Face Training
All you need to know to act as a signatory, with an introduction to the PVG legislation.
  • Date:  3 February, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Stirling

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NKBL & SVRU Regional Practitioner Day - Inverclyde and West Glasgow
Training and networking day for practitioners focused on youth violence prevention hosted by NKBL and Scottish Violence Reduction Unit.
  • Date:  4 February, 2025
  • Time:  9:30 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Inverclyde

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The Gathering 2025
Organised by SCVO, the Gathering is the largest free voluntary sector event in the UK. It's an opportunity for all the amazing people working in and with the voluntary sector to network, showcase what they do and learn from each other.
  • Date:  4 February, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Other
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Edinburgh, Online

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Racial Literacy Training
Join us for this training which will introduce youth workers to the concept of racial literacy, look at how they can develop their practice to be more inclusive of black and minority ethnic young people, understand the impact of dominant identities and what the barriers to participation for young people are.
  • Date:  4 February, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Welcoming Young People as Volunteers
If you would like to learn more about how to make your organisation more young people friendly then join us for a highly immersive and interactive online workshop.
  • Date:  7 February, 2025
  • Time:  9:30 - 11:00
  • Type:  Workshop
  • Organiser:  Sector, YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Trauma Skilled Approach
The Transforming Trauma National Training Framework sets out 4 levels of training for different parts of the workforce.  This training sits at the Trauma Skilled Practice level for those with direct and frequent contact with people who may be survivors of trauma.  
  • Date:  18 February, 2025
  • Time:  9:30 - 16:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Trauma Informed Practice
The Transforming Trauma National Training Framework sets out 4 levels of training for different parts of the workforce. This training sits at the Informed Practice Level, which describes the baseline knowledge and skills required by everyone in the Scottish workforce.
  • Date:  19 February, 2025
  • Time:  13:30 - 15:45
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Payments for Children in Scotland
Aimed at advisers and support workers who have little or no knowledge of benefits, this course provides an overview of benefit support for families in Scotland from pregnancy to school age.
  • Date:  20 February, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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