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Youth work can help us to build communities - not tear them down
Youth work has a role to play in restoring cohesion, starting with our young people.
  • Topic:  Equality, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  9 August, 2024
  • Author:  Sarah Robinson Galloway
Recognising youth work's civic influence on a global scale
For this year's Policy Convention on 28 August, we welcome elected representatives, and youth workers from Scotland, Finland, Nigeria, India, and many more.
  • Topic:  Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  26 July, 2024
Forward to a bright future with youth work at the core of UNCRC delivery
With UNCRC enforcement comes an opportunity to ensure that youth work plays a pivotal role in its delivery, ensuring young people's rights are not only observed, but celebrated.
  • Topic:  Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  12 July, 2024
Deaf Action members performing 'the worm' up the red carpet at the National Youth Work Awards 2023
Championing diversity: Deaf Action's story of winning a National Youth Work Award
Deaf Action’s Youth Service were crowned Team of the Year at the National Youth Work Awards in 2023.
  • Topic:  National Youth Work Awards
  • Date:  6 May, 2024
  • Author:  Deaf Action
Craig Burns wins a national youth work award for recognising skills and achievements
Celebrating a year of achievement with Craig Burns
Craig was a 2023 National Youth Work Award, picking up a trophy for our Recognising Skills & Achievement category.
  • Topic:  National Youth Work Awards
  • Date:  1 May, 2024
  • Author:  Craig Burns
Youth Spark: Digital Youth Work in Action
Citadel youth worker Jane Ryder provides a snapshot of the Youth Spark programme to date ahead of a community showcase in June, open to all youth work practitioners as an opportunity to share experience and best practice.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work
  • Date:  30 April, 2024
PEEK, Govan High School and Police Scotland walk the red carpet at the national youth work awards in 2023
Take a PEEK behind the scenes at last year's Inclusion and Prevention #YLSAwards winners
PEEK, Govan High School, and Police Scotland walked away with the top prize in the Inclusion & Prevention category for an innovative partnership that is changing lives in the west of Glasgow.
  • Topic:  National Youth Work Awards
  • Date:  17 April, 2024
  • Author:  Michaela Collins
Group shot of awards winners at the national youth work awards. One man in a wheelchair at the front of the photo holds the trophy.
Meet the ground-breaking mental health project supporting over 500 young people each year
The Low Level Mental Health Support in Schools partnership in Dumfries and Galloway walked away with the top prize in last year's #YLSAwards Health & Wellbeing category.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing, National Youth Work Awards
  • Date:  15 April, 2024
  • Author:  Jenny McLean
Youth work must be recognised as a key partner in building a better connected Scotland
Youth work is already playing a key role in helping young people feel a sense of safety and belonging in our communities. Let's make sure it becomes a central part of our policymaking on loneliness and isolation.
  • Topic:  Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  19 March, 2024
  • Author:  Kevin Kane
From Willow Warblers to Lifelong Learning
Dr David Gregory is responsible for the strategic direction of the Scottish Attainment Challenge, but it might have been a different story if David hadn't have benefited from the support of local youth workers during his school days.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  15 February, 2024
  • Author:  Dr David Gregory
Youth work is a vital part of Scotland's careers ecosystem
Having led a recent review into career services in Scotland, former Scottish TUC General Secretary Grahame Smith writes about his vision for young people in Scotland.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  14 February, 2024
  • Author:  Grahame Smith
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OPEN Project's Youth-led Research Diary Part Five: Alcohol and Other Drugs Research Project, the end of the journey
Alcohol and Other Drugs Research Project.
  • Date:  12 December, 2023
  • Author:  Shannon Boston

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