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Members Network – The Preventative Power of Youth Work
Join us on 18th June from 11am to 12.30pm for the second Members Network of 2026 to explore the preventative power of youth work.
Better Lives Survey 2026
This new report draws on engagement with 2,922 young people across Scotland and provides valuable insight into how young people perceive violence, knife crime, safety, and prevention efforts in the current social climate.

Applications Open for £758,000 Youth Arts Open Fund
This fund aims to support freelance artists or organisations seeking small amounts of funding so that they can deliver arts activity for children and young people. The deadline for applications is 5pm on 21st July.
Building Ethical Partnerships with the Tech Sector
A new set of tools has been launched, designed to support youth work organisations to make ethical alliances with technology companies.

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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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Help Shape the Next Truth About Youth survey
Young Scot is inviting organisations to get involved in shaping the upcoming Truth About Youth: Our 2025/2026 Insight Survey. 
  • Topic:  Research
  • Date:  29 September, 2025

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Addressing Unrest, Disinformation and Violence
A list of links to resources to help us all support young people and our communities following civil unrest, discrimination and violence.
  • Date:  29 September, 2025

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CashBack for Communities Supports Thousands of Young People
A programme funded from the seized assets of criminals delivered £6.2 million funding to support over 15,000 young people during 2024-25.  The money has been used by Cashback for Communities to support 29 organisations delivering projects that divert young people away from anti-social behaviour and crime. 
  • Date:  25 September, 2025

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Education, Language, Policy & Sustainability Webinar Series
Find out about the latest series of online research seminars from University of Glasgow's Dumfries Campus’ Education, Language, Policy and Sustainability Research Group focusing on challenges of climate, migration, and care-experience.
  • Topic:  Care, Learning for Sustainability, Research
  • Date:  24 September, 2025

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Two Thirds of Girls Change Their Everyday Behaviour to Avoid Sexual Harassment
New research from Girlguiding reveals how the persistent threat of sexism, misogyny and harassment is impacting girls’ everyday lives and affecting their confidence, mental health and wellbeing.
  • Topic:  Equality
  • Date:  23 September, 2025

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Plain Packaging May Help Tackle Teen Vaping
Plain packaging of vape pods reduces young people’s interest in trying them, but does not reduce interest among adults, according to a new study led by UCL and King’s College London researchers.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  22 September, 2025

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2025 Inequality Landscape
Overall, this report by the Health Foundation, suggests there have been modest gains in some living-standards, including some hopeful signs of reductions in child poverty, but this is set against persistent, and in places deepening, structural inequalities that continue to drive poor health. Focusing on average outcomes paints a picture of men in Scotland doing relatively well but this obscures a subset of young adult men facing multiple socio-economic challenges who are at high risk of early, preventable deaths.
  • Topic:  Equality, Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  22 September, 2025

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Can Scotland Break the Cycle of Childhood Health Inequalities?
A new report, published by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation, warns that childhood health inequalities will persist without a decisive shift from short-term, reactive measures to long-term, preventative approaches.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  22 September, 2025

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