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Children's Mental Health Week 2024
Children's Mental Health Week 2024 will take place from 5th to 11th February 2024. This year's theme is 'My Voice Matters'.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  14 December, 2023
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Labour Market Statistics for 16 to 24 Year Olds: Scotland and the United Kingdom
Statistics from the Annual Population Survey covering the period from October 2022 to September 2023.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  14 December, 2023
Helping Save Our World
A 24-week course designed by Perth & Kinross DofE suitable for the Silver and Gold sectional certificates.
  • Topic:  Learning for Sustainability
  • Date:  14 December, 2023
Youth Work and Adult Learning (CLD) Workforce Development Fund
Support for (CLD) third sector youth work and adult learning organisations to develop their staff and volunteers in order to meet the needs of young people and adult learners across Scotland.
  • Topic:  Funding
  • Date:  14 December, 2023
Time to Talk Day 2024
Time to Talk Day 2024 will take place on Thursday 1st February. Get everything you need to get involved.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  12 December, 2023
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Music Space Sessions
Check out these sound, music and creativity workshops available to young people based in Glasgow aged 16-30 who face barriers to creative opoportunities.  
  • Date:  12 December, 2023
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Nominations now open for National Youth Work Awards!
Celebrate excellence by nominating your youth work heroes for a National Youth Work Award.
  • Topic:  National Youth Work Awards
  • Date:  12 December, 2023
Youth Work Belongs In Education Campaign!
YouthWorkBelongsInEducation will highlight why youth work is crucial to Scottish education. It's about ensuring every young person has access to youth work as an integral part of their educational journey. 
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability, Youth Work Strategy
  • Date:  12 December, 2023
Going Without: Almost One in Five Children Growing Up Deprived of the Basics
Action for Children, working with the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), has analysed UK government data on children growing up in material deprivation.
  • Topic:  Poverty
  • Date:  11 December, 2023
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Advancing Children’s Rights in Law
A Bill to provide greater protection of children’s rights has been passed by the Scottish Parliament for a second time.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  11 December, 2023
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STEM CLD Survey 2023
Each year, this survey helps shape the future of professional learning in science, technology, engineering and maths. This year, responses are especially important since they’ll be used to track the overall impact of the STEM Strategy since it started in 2017. This survey closes on 18th December.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work, Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  11 December, 2023
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Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls
A national strategy to prevent and address all forms of violence against women and girls has been renewed to build on recent progress.
  • Topic:  Equality, Violence
  • Date:  7 December, 2023

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