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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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iWill Week 2025 is coming! #WhatDoYouStandFor?
Throughout #iWill Week, running from Monday 17th to Friday 21st November, each day will highlight a distinct theme. These include truth, dignity, justice, community, and joy..
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Digital Youth Work Conference
Join us in Edinburgh on 10th February. This year the theme for Safer Internet Day is Smart tech, Safe choices – Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI.

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.

The Link Magazine 2025
The latest edition of The Link shines a light on how youth work across Scotland is creating safer spaces and stronger futures for young people.

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Under Pressure: Preventing Abuse and Exploitation in Teen Relationships
Open to all youth work practitioners across Scotland, this session provides information about the pressures young people face that might be impacting their intimate relationships, and invites reflection about implications for practice. Practitioners will leave with heightened insight about these issues and ways to address them in their work with young people.
  • Date:  2 December, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Growing Up is Never Easy
This bite-sized event is for parents/carers and practitioners working with young people and families. It explores the developmental stages to adulthood, provides a better understanding of young people’s developmental needs and the importance of relationships to support and manage these key stages.
  • Date:  3 December, 2025
  • Time:  12:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Conflict Triggers and Response Styles
This bite-sized event is for parents/carers and practitioners working with young people and families. Itexplores some of the triggers involved in relationships that contribute to potential conflict escalation and its impact on those relationships.
  • Date:  4 December, 2025
  • Time:  8:30 - 9:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Safe Social Media
This interactive workshop aims to give participants an understanding of the impact that media generally, and social media specifically, can have on young people, to explore how to encourage safe social media usage and to gain practical skills/ideas to encourage positive social media use in your own groups.
  • Date:  4 December, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free, Paid
  • Location:  Online

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A Complete Guide to PVG and Your Signatory Role
This session is designed to support all lead and additional signatories, whether you are new to the role, about to step into the role or are interested in finding out more about what the role of being a signatory involves. This session covers all aspects of the PVG Scheme and will leave you with the information required to process PVG scheme applications for your organisation.
  • Date:  4 December, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Stirling

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Tackling Sectarianism CPD Training
The Tackling Sectarianism CPD training will provide youth workers with the tools they need to engage young people on the topic of sectarianism, prejudice and hate in Scotland.
  • Date:  4 December, 2025
  • Time:  13:00 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Understanding Your Community: Foundations of Effective Youth Work
This training session will look at why understanding our community is important and what community mapping looks like. It also discuss awareness of policy context of youth work - from organisational and local policy to national.
  • Date:  4 December, 2025
  • Time:  13:00 - 14:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free, Paid
  • Location:  Online

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COVID-19, Children's Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
This webinar gives an overview of a peer reviewed article published by the presenters. The paper argues that the pandemic’s impact on development requires the CRC to revisit this guidance and consider a ‘developmental immaturity defence’ to better protect children who are now more vulnerable. 
  • Date:  8 December, 2025
  • Time:  12:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Together's UNCRC Training – Children’s Human Rights Approach Principles
  • Date:  9 December, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Location:  Online

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Child Protection Awareness Training
This interactive workshop aims to assist youth workers and volunteers with the implementation of a child protection policy and measures to consider when working with young people and adults that keep everyone safe from harm.
  • Date:  9 December, 2025
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free, Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Level 1- Introductory Training to Hi5 and DYA
This interactive training workshop will introduce you to Youth Scotland’s Hi5 Award and Dynamic Youth Award, enabling you to effectively promote, support and deliver these awards in your youth group, project or school.
  • Date:  11 December, 2025
  • Time:  14:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Awards Drop In Session
Ready to level up your understanding of Youth Scotland Awards? Don’t miss out on this  informal, yet inspiring catch-up designed for anyone supporting young people through these amazing awards or anyone keen to learn more about how they work.
  • Date:  15 December, 2025
  • Time:  14:00 - 15:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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