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Equity in Education - The Vital Role of Youth Work
We've published a report to highlight what has been achieved and learned through the Youth Work and Schools SAC National Programme to date, and the importance of continuing to strengthen collaboration across the educational system, so that all young people can reach their full potential.
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Youth Work and Online Lives
What do you think about a social media ban for under 16s? What will be the impact for young people and what are the issues that the youth work sector needs to engage with right now? Are there alternative approaches? Our survey (open until 4th May) is for those who work with young people in Scotland.

Youth Work Manifesto
The manifesto sets out three national commitments Scotland must make to ensure every young person can thrive through access to high-quality youth work. Together, they represent the foundation of a stronger, fairer youth work system: guaranteed by law, universally accessible, and sustained by investment.

Call-Out to Film Makers, Creatives, Film Producers: Tender Opportunity
A decade after the release of Mark’s Story: One Knife, Many Victims, this influential resource continues to shape prevention work across education, youth services, and community safety. We are now inviting proposals (deadline - 20th May) for a new phase of work that revisits Mark’s Story Ten Years on.

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New Project Will Support Ethical Partnerships with the Tech Sector
We’re delighted to launch our Include Plus Fellowship project. The purpose of the fellowship is to understand where there is genuine alignment between youth work and the tech sector, identify opportunities for ethical collaboration, and develop practical guidance that helps youth work organisations assess and navigate potential partnerships with confidence and integrity.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work
  • Date:  8 October, 2025

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Vaping and Smoking Among Scottish Adolescents
This report presents results for Scotland from the ASH Smokefree GB Youth survey to provide a picture of adolescent use of vapes, tobacco and other nicotine products, alongside insights into perceptions of harm and views on policy measures.
  • Topic:  Addiction, Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  7 October, 2025

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Gen(eration) AI Report
The King’s Trust has recently launched the findings of new research commissioned with Public First on the impact of AI on young people’s employment. The new economic modelling and large-scale polling has produced a detailed analysis of how AI is likely to affect young people’s place in the labour market.  
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work, Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  7 October, 2025

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Glasgow's Big Youth Survey
We are currently working with Glasgow Life to help them engage with young people across Glasgow to understand the issues affecting them in their local community and how best to support them. This is an opportunity for young people to share their views with us through a short survey until 31st October.
  • Topic:  Research
  • Date:  7 October, 2025

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Poverty in Scotland 2025
This year’s Poverty in Scotland report from Joseph Rowntree Foundation is published in the context of people feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians. It is a context in which the economy is not working and in which low-paid, insecure work is entangled with high costs.
  • Topic:  Poverty, Research
  • Date:  6 October, 2025

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Children's Online Safety Could Provide £3bn to UK Businesses
Research by the NSPCC and Baringa has found that UK businesses could unlock up to £3 billion in revenue by prioritising children's online safety. This comes as a new report reveals that 71% of adults think companies that prioritise children's online safety are more trustworthy.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work
  • Date:  6 October, 2025

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Bairns' Hoose - Scottish Barnahus: Vision, Principles and Approach
The Scottish Government has recently published a factsheet that sets out the vision of how Barnahus should be implemented in Scotland, the principles which should underpin the model and our approach to its practical implementation.
  • Date:  6 October, 2025

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Youth Voices Survey
No Knives, Better Lives are conducting research on young peoples’ perceptions of violence and garner their views on how to prevent violence. To help us better understand young people’s views we have a survey for all young people aged 11-25 years to complete. The survey is open until 7th November.
  • Topic:  Research, Violence
  • Date:  6 October, 2025

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A Joint Statement on Prevention: Achieving the Urgent Action Required to Tackle Scotland's Health Inequalities Crisis Link
This statement, published by the Community Health Exchange (SCDC), VHS, The ALLIANCE, and the Edinburgh Community Health Forum recently is a response to major policies and frameworks published this year which set out prevention as a key approach to how public services should operate.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  6 October, 2025

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New Polling Shows Three Quarters of People Want the Scottish Government to Take More Action on Child Poverty
Save the Children and Joseph Rowntree Foundation are calling for every political party to take notice and commit to action, as new polling shows that people across Scotland want politicians to step up and do more about child poverty.  
  • Topic:  Poverty
  • Date:  1 October, 2025

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NHS 24 Youth Forum
NHS 24 is committed to involving people from different backgrounds with different experiences in the design, development and improvement of our services. Find out about becoming a volunteer to be part of the NHS 24 Public Partnership Forum or the NHS 24 Youth Forum.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  30 September, 2025

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Support for Transgender Young People
Guidance to help schools support transgender children and young people has been updated.
  • Topic:  Equality
  • Date:  30 September, 2025

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