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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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Distressed Not 'Difficult'— Supporting Distressed Behaviour in Children
Make sense of children's 'challenging' behaviour through the lens of distress and discover practical ways to support them. This training is aimed at those working with children who work with children who display 'challenging' behaviour.
  • Date:  25 February, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Child Protection Lead Training
Overview of child protection lead roles and responsibilities in Scotland. For those who oversee a team working with children and young people.
  • Date:  5 March, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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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:  11 March, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Boundaries, Contracting and Containment
The Transforming Trauma National Training Framework sets out 4 levels of training for different parts of the workforce. This training sits at the Trauma Enhanced Level, which describes the knowledge required by workers who have more regular and intense contact with individuals who are known to be affected by traumatic events, and who provide specific supports or interventions and/or who direct or manage services.
  • Date:  26 March, 2025
  • Time:  9:30 - 14:45
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Child Protection Lead Training
Overview of child protection lead roles and responsibilities in Scotland. For those who oversee a team working with children and young people.
  • Date:  30 April, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Making Space for Voices – Children in Scotland’s Annual Conference 2025
The theme of the conference will be ‘Making space for voices’ and will cover a wide range of issues relevant to the children’s sector. This will include UNCRC Incorporation, children and young people’s mental health, equality, diversity and inclusion, education and learning while also including a focus on progress to achieve the aims of The Promise, particularly in light of 2025 being half-way through the ten-year lifetime.  
  • Date:  28 May, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Conference
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Glasgow

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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:  29 May, 2025
  • Time:  18:00 - 21:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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