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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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Youth work and employability position paper
Outlining the crucial role of the youth work sector in Scotland's social and economic renewal in the aftermath of Covid-19.
  • Topic:  Covid-19
  • Date:  31 August, 2020

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Reopening and operation of Outdoor Education Centres and visits by schools
The guidance has been developed for Outdoor Education Centres (OEC), education authorities and schools to support a safe reopening and operation of OEC for day visits by schools following the emergence of COVID-19 in Scotland.
  • Topic:  Covid-19, Education, Skills & Employability, Outdoor Learning
  • Date:  27 August, 2020

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Brand new digital youth work hub launched
You’ll find a huge array of toolkits, training events, tutorials, webinar recordings, guidance and more to help deliver youth work services online to the highest standards.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work
  • Date:  27 August, 2020

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Detached Youth Work Guidelines
Read our guidelines to providing detached and outreach youth work, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Topic:  Covid-19
  • Date:  7 July, 2020

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Outdoor Learning and Education Recovery
As Scotland moves out of lockdown and into the Covid-19 recovery phase, a new guide has been launched to support the planning and delivery of learning.
  • Topic:  Covid-19, Outdoor Learning
  • Date:  3 July, 2020

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Covid-19 & Youth Work: A Guide for Schools
Developed with the Youth Work COVID-19 Recovery Group, Covid-19 & Youth Work: A Guide for Schools explains how youth work can help schools to close the poverty-related attainment gap and improve outcomes for all children and young people.
  • Topic:  Covid-19, Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  27 June, 2020

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Survey report reveals £20m funding hit for sector as youth mental health crisis looms
Youth work leaders in Scotland have issued a stark warning to national politicians and local councils as a new report shows an immediate funding loss this year of £20 million to the sector.
  • Topic:  Covid-19, Funding, Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  21 May, 2020

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Lockdown Lowdown sends decision makers a powerful message from Scotland's young people.
#IWill Scottish ambassador Rachael Hatfield blogs about the results of the #LockdownLowdown survey, calling for the voices of young people to be heard as Scotland prepares for a new normal.
  • Topic:  Covid-19, Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  27 April, 2020

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Updated #LockdownLowdown report provides detailed insight into current concerns of young people
We have worked with Young Scot and Scottish Youth Parliament to develop and expand our analysis of #LockdownLowdown - a survey of over 2,500 young people in Scotland about their concerns over Covid-19.
  • Topic:  Covid-19
  • Date:  23 April, 2020

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Survey reveals 96% of young people fear for future due to COVID-19
A new study commissioned by YouthLink Scotland, Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scot asked young people from every community in Scotland to share their concerns about COVID-19.
  • Date:  23 April, 2020

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Youth work and schools: case study evaluation
YouthLink Scotland is gathering a range of evidence from youth workers across Scotland, to demonstrate the impact of youth work on improving outcomes for young people.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  23 March, 2020

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Three finalists for the Inspirational Leader Award 2020 - Khaleda Noon (Intercultural Youth Scotland), Kelly Ross (Dumfries & Galloway Council), Andy Bathgate (SU Scotland)
Meet the finalists: Inspirational Leader (sponsored by Scottish Government)
Meet the finalists for the Inspirational Leader Award 2020.
  • Topic:  National Youth Work Awards
  • Date:  27 February, 2020

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