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Keep your finger firmly on the pulse of Scotland’s youth work sector with our news, events & blogs library. You’ll get the top stories, best training opportunities and insightful comment from across the sector.

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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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Education Outcomes for Looked After Children 2022/23
Information on attainment and destinations of looked after school leavers, and achievement of curriculum for excellence, attendance, and exclusions for looked after children in Scotland in 2022/23.
  • Topic:  Care, Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  27 August, 2024

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Young People Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) UK: August 2024
Estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex. These are official statistics in development.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  26 August, 2024

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New Report Warns Many Children Being Left Behind by Digital Skills Gap
A joint report published by Child of the North and Anne Longfield’s Centre for Young Lives think tank explores a digital divide which is holding back the life chances of millions of children in the UK and proposes an evidence-based plan to upskill the nation’s young people.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work, Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  26 August, 2024

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Eric Liddell Recognition Awards
YouthLink Scotland is working with the Eric Liddell Community to award 20 ‘Eric Liddell Recognition Awards’ to celebrate some of the amazing young people aged 12 – 26 years who have made an outstanding contribution to their community through their involvement in youth work in Scotland. Find out more and apply by 1st October.
  • Topic:  Active Youth Work, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  25 August, 2024

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Youth VIP Training and Community of Practice
Volunteering Matters, YouthLink Scotland and Young Scot are delighted to announce further dates for the highly successful Youth VIP training and Community of Practice.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  23 August, 2024

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Climate Week 2024 - How to get involved and resources for your use!
Every year since 2016, communities and organisations from all across Scotland have come together for Scotland's Climate Week. This year, from 23rd to 29th September, it’s a chance to celebrate and encourage climate action, and to learn more about tackling climate change by sharing ‘Stories for Change’. Share your story using #ScotClimateWeek to help spark new ideas and inspire others to act.
  • Topic:  Learning for Sustainability
  • Date:  22 August, 2024

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Getting it right for everyone (GIRFE)
A proposed multi-agency approach to health and social care support and services from young adulthood to end of life care.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  20 August, 2024

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“It’s Not Just Their Job, It’s Our Whole Lives”
A new report by Forces Children Scotland outlines how the rights of children and young people from armed forces families are affected in the areas of protection, provision and participation rights.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  20 August, 2024

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Improving Relationships and Behaviour in Schools
New guidance to empower schools to take action on mobile phone use and next steps in ongoing work to improve relationships and behaviour in schools has been published.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  19 August, 2024

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Scottish Educational Exchange Programme - Test and Learn Project
We are encouraging the youth work sector to reach out to College and University partners to explore potential to collaborate and for this opportunity to benefit young people through youth work. The application deadline is 15 September.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability, International
  • Date:  19 August, 2024

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Youth Work's Role in Tackling Homelessness
This joint policy briefing paper is aimed at policy makers and highlights how youth work’s focus on early intervention and prevention can mitigate the impacts of and the number of young people who experience youth homelessness.
  • Topic:  Housing/Homelessness, Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  19 August, 2024

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Tackling Gendered Violence
Next steps to address violence against women and girls, including measures to combat culturally specific forms of violence, have been unveiled.
  • Topic:  Equality, Violence
  • Date:  13 August, 2024

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