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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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Awards Gold and Platinum Advanced training
This interactive training is aimed at staff that have completed Awards Introductory Training and who have experience of supporting YAA.
  • Date:  22 May, 2023
  • Time:  14:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online
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Developing a Volunteer Culture
This one-day course will define organisational culture and consider how changing your culture impacts upon the volunteering experience.
  • Date:  24 May, 2023
  • Time:  10:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Stirling
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Learning in a Changing Climate: A Peruvian-Scottish cultural exchange
How can education help learners to thrive in a challenging future? Join educators from Peru and Scotland to share and discuss this vital topic.
  • Date:  25 May, 2023
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Workshop
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Edinburgh
Child protection awareness
Child protection awareness training
Overview of child protection responsibilities in Scotland. For those who work directly with children and young people.
  • Date:  25 May, 2023
  • Time:  10:00 - 11:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
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Children's Mental Health Conference
This conference will provide a platform for learning about intersectional approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health.
  • Date:  30 May, 2023
  • Time:  9:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Conference
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Edinburgh
Help! I’ve got stuck with my evaluation! Peer learning event on tactics to get “unstuck”
This free peer learning event will be a “safe space” where there’s no such thing as “stupid”.  It's all about helping each other air problems and find simple solutions to get (even) better at evaluating impact and gathering learning.
  • Date:  30 May, 2023
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online
Action on Sectarianism
Tackling Sectarianism CPD for Youth Workers - 30th May
This event is now fully booked and a waiting list is in operation. Further dates available - 22 August, 16 November and 7 February.
  • Date:  30 May, 2023
  • Time:  13:00 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online
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The Pedagogy of Makerspaces
Join us for a workshop which will go behind the scenes of how we engage and learn in a makerspace setting.
  • Date:  31 May, 2023
  • Time:  18:30 - 19:30
  • Type:  Workshop
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Understanding Gambling Harms and Links to Gaming
An introduction to gambling and the associated risks and harms, including the increasingly blurred lines between gaming and gambling.
  • Date:  5 June, 2023
  • Time:  15:30 - 17:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online
ipa Glasgow 2023
Play: Rights and possibilities - 22nd International Play Association Triennial World Conference
Examine how UN General Comment No 17 on article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has impacted policy and practice in Scotland, and worldwide, to improve children’s right to play.
  • Date:  6 June, 2023
  • Time:  9:00 - 17:00
  • Type:  Conference
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Glasgow
Hi5 & DYA Standardisation
An opportunity to see completed award challenge sheets and portfolios from various groups across Scotland and contribute to the standardisation process.
  • Date:  6 June, 2023
  • Time:  10:00 - 14:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online
Girl thinking
Understanding the Teenage Brain: Development, learning and behaviour
This training session will focus on the adolescent brain and how it develops, and what challenges that presents for those living or working with teenagers.
  • Date:  6 June, 2023
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Edinburgh, Online