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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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The LGBT Charter for Workplaces

A powerful initiative from LGBT Youth Scotland designed to help Scottish businesses cultivate inclusive, affirming, and equitable environments for LGBTQ+ employees. The Charter provides practical steps, policy guidance, and tools to create workplaces where everyone feels valued, safe, and supported.

Topic: Equality
Date: 31 October, 2024

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Child Poverty and the Housing Emergency

Aberlour Children's Charity and Shelter Scotland have jointly produced a new report examining the evidence linking child poverty and the housing emergency.

Topic: Housing/Homelessness, Poverty
Date: 30 October, 2024

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CHEX: Working Across Scotland to Promote Community-led Health

Find out more about the national network, working with community-led health organisations, local authorities, the NHS and Scottish Government to promote the approach as a way to tackle Scotland’s persistent health inequalities.

Topic: Health & Wellbeing
Date: 29 October, 2024

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Children First Declares Childhood Emergency in Scotland

Children First has declared a “childhood emergency” in Scotland, with new research revealing most adults believe growing up in the country is worse than ever before.

Topic: Child Protection, Health & Wellbeing
Date: 23 October, 2024

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Growing Up in Kinship Care

New research from the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection highlights the need for increased support for Scotland’s kinship families.

Topic: Care
Date: 22 October, 2024

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First Minister Backs Alcohol-Free Childhood Campaign

First Minister John Swinney has pledged his support for a joint campaign aimed at ensuring children and young people in Scotland grow up free from the harmful effects of alcohol marketing.

Topic: Addiction, Health & Wellbeing
Date: 22 October, 2024

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‘Next Generation’ Employability Programme for Young Creatives

Free support, development and training programme for young people aged 16-24 who have a connection to youth theatre and are ready to grow as professional practitioners in the arts. Apply by 11th November.

Topic: Arts, Education, Skills & Employability
Date: 22 October, 2024

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Glasgow Legacy Programme for 18–25-year-olds 

This  FREE programme taking place  in Glasgow on 6th and 7th November is designed to empower young people and give them the skills, confidence, voice, and agency to be strong leaders of the future. Anyone living, working, or studying in Glasgow aged 18 -25 years can apply.

Topic: Education, Skills & Employability
Date: 17 October, 2024

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Youth VIP - Volunteering in Scotland

The Youth VIP team have launched the ‘Volunteering in Scotland’ survey! This survey is open for young people aged 11-25 from anywhere across Scotland. We’d be extremely grateful if you could share this survey far and wide to reach as many young people directly as possible. The survey closes on 30th November.

Topic: Rights, Participation & Volunteering
Date: 17 October, 2024

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Report Reveals Financial Challenges for Care Experienced people

Who Cares? Scotland has published ten key solutions following new research that has shown that Care Experienced people could be facing a wage gap as high as £10,000 compared to their non-Care Experienced peers.

Topic: Care
Date: 17 October, 2024

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The King's Trust Unveils New Brand

The King’s Trust Group of charities has recently unveiled its new logo and tagline. The introduction of the new branding follows the announcement of the name change made in November 2023 from The Prince’s Trust to The King’s Trust.

Topic: Education, Skills & Employability
Date: 16 October, 2024

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International Opportunities

Check out the latest training opportunities within the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme, European Solidarity Corps and beyond!

Topic: International
Date: 15 October, 2024

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