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Youth Work (Scotland) Bill
Scottish Labour MSP Martin Whitfield has launched a public consultation on the Youth Work (Scotland) Bill, which seeks to give young people aged 11 to 25 a legal right to access high-quality youth work services.
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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Digital Youth Work Conference
Join us in Stirling on 11th February (Safer Internet Day) where we will explore the role of youth work in helping young people navigate their online lives.

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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UK Giving Behaviours Tracker 2024
A recent survey by Blue State has found that younger donors had the highest average donation value of all ages, and were most likely to say they want to continue giving.
  • Topic:  Funding
  • Date:  14 October, 2024

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NIHR Youth Worker Study
Could you help with an investigation into how dedicated youth work services for young people with physical and/or mental health conditions are organised, provided and experienced? Find out more...
  • Date:  14 October, 2024

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How to get involved in Youth Work Week 2024
Help us celebrate the preventative power of youth work from 4-10th November with this year's theme of "Upstream Solutions".
  • Topic:  Prevention & Early Intervention
  • Date:  14 October, 2024

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Black History Month
Cynthia Gentle - Network Support Officer (United Voices) at YouthLink Scotland writes about this year's Black History Month and the recent Black Scottish Awards.
  • Topic:  Equality
  • Date:  14 October, 2024

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Girlguiding’s Annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey
An insight into how girls feel about their everyday lives and the issues they care about. This year, the research reveals the devastating impact that mounting societal pressures and misogyny is having on girls, their confidence and outlook on their futures.
  • Topic:  Equality
  • Date:  10 October, 2024

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Reimagining Secure Care: Pivotal New Research from CYCJ
Drawing on extensive collaboration with stakeholders, practitioners, and young people with lived experience, these new reports are the result of 18 months of work and provide a comprehensive roadmap for rethinking secure care, placing the rights and well-being of children at the heart of Scotland’s approach.
  • Topic:  Care
  • Date:  9 October, 2024

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New Learning for Sustainability Webpage Now Live
Education Scotland's new LfS webpage showcases practice examples, provides advice and guidance, and signposts relevant professional learning.
  • Topic:  Learning for Sustainability
  • Date:  9 October, 2024

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Towards a Dyslexia-friendly Scotland?
A new report by Dyslexia Scotland reveals the stark inequalities young people and adults with dyslexia face, and the reasons to be optimistic about the potential for a dyslexia-friendly Scotland.
  • Topic:  Equality
  • Date:  9 October, 2024

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Census Results on Health, Disability and Unpaid Care
New figures from Scotland’s Census show the number of people who reported having a mental health condition more than doubled between 2011 and 2022. A large increase in the number of younger people reporting mental health conditions is behind the increase. 
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  3 October, 2024

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Youth Conversations - Vaping Survey
Ash Scotland is conducting their first ever Youth Conversations Survey and would be grateful if you could share this with the young people (under the age of 24) that you work with.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  2 October, 2024

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Fall in Young Smokers in Past Decade
Fewer than one in every 10 young adults in the UK smoke cigarettes - a steep drop from a quarter of 18-24-year-olds 12 years ago, according to research by the Office for National Statistics.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  2 October, 2024

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Launch of ‘Online High’ Film and Educational Toolkit
Dunfermline Police Scotland Youth Volunteers (PSYV) have unveiled a new campaign that highlights the growing issue of drug dealing through mobile devices among young people. This initiative is part of an 18-month screen education programme titled ‘On Trend,’ where youth volunteers created the ‘Online High’ film in collaboration with YouthLink Scotland (No Knives, Better Lives - NKBL) and Barnardo’s Fife Substance Use Education Team. 
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  2 October, 2024

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