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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 27th 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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Normalising Gambling to Children: Family Arcades
This 2 hour webinar available for a limited time only, is open to anyone working within youth services, family services or formal education in Scotland.
  • Date:  28 January, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Smoking, Vaping, Mental Health and Wellbeing
Improve your knowledge and confidence when it comes to discussing tobacco, vaping and their impact on the mental health and wellbeing of young people.
  • Date:  28 January, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Disclosure Act Implementation Session
Learn about what's changing under the new legislation and how you can prepare for working with the new act.
  • Date:  28 January, 2025
  • Time:  18:30 - 20:30
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Young People and Drugs – Early Intervention and Harm Prevention
Planet Youth, a community wide approach to encourage and enable people to use data and evidence to create better, healthier environments for young people, supporting healthier choices around substance use. This webinar will look at the application of this approach in Scotland and the progress made.
  • Date:  29 January, 2025
  • Time:  13:00 - 14:15
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Disclosure Act Implementation Session
Learn about what's changing under the new legislation and how you can prepare for working with the new act.
  • Date:  29 January, 2025
  • Time:  14:30 - 16:30
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • 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. It is open to anyone working within youth services, family services or formal education in Scotland.
  • Date:  30 January, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:30
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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UK Poverty 2025 Launch Webinar
As the first UK Poverty report of the new Labour Government, it emphasises the scale of the challenge ahead in addressing the critical issues. This event offers an opportunity to explore how our social security system, alongside affordable housing and access to good jobs, can play a pivotal role in reducing poverty.
  • Date:  30 January, 2025
  • Time:  10:30 - 12:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Triple Violence, Youth Participation and Storytelling
This webinar will detail the learning from a study of violence in both England and Scotland with a focus on the Scottish success story of violence reduction, explore current community concerns around violence and hear from young people affected by violence about their journey to creating violence reduction resources.
  • Date:  30 January, 2025
  • Time:  12:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Disclosure Act Implementation Session
Learn about what's changing under the new legislation and how you can prepare for working with the new act.
  • Date:  30 January, 2025
  • Time:  18:30 - 20:30
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Disclosure Act Implementation Session
Learn about what's changing under the new legislation and how you can prepare for working with the new act.
  • Date:  1 February, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:30
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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PVG & Signatory - Face to Face Training
All you need to know to act as a signatory, with an introduction to the PVG legislation.
  • Date:  3 February, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Stirling

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NKBL & SVRU Regional Practitioner Day - Inverclyde and West Glasgow
Training and networking day for practitioners focused on youth violence prevention hosted by NKBL and Scottish Violence Reduction Unit.
  • Date:  4 February, 2025
  • Time:  9:30 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Inverclyde

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