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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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Chair of YouthLink Scotland – Call for Nominations
We are delighted to announce that the Board of YouthLink Scotland is recruiting a new independent Chair to succeed Angela Leitch CBE, who stepped down in November 2025 after three years in post. Find out more and nominate a suitable candidate by 1st March.
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Let's Talk About Online
Conversations make a difference! Join this training from 2pm to 3.30pm on 23rd March to explore how to chat to young people about what’s happening in their online lives.

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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Let's Talk About Online
Conversations make a difference! Join this training to explore how to chat to young people about what's happening in their online lives.
  • Date:  31 March, 2026
  • Time:  10:30 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Outdoor Learning – In a Youth Work Setting
This online interactive session is designed to help youth workers feel confident, prepared, and inspired for outdoor activity, ahead of their holiday programmes. The session aims to develop a clear understanding of what outdoor learning is and the benefits it brings to young people.
  • Date:  1 April, 2026
  • Time:  13:00 - 16:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free, Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Youth Work and Schools Collaborative Meeting
The Youth Work and Schools Collaborative brings together practitioners across Scotland to share learning and explore themed topics. This session will focus on youth work’s role in supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools, exploring how youth work can create safe, supportive spaces, build trusted relationships, and promote emotional wellbeing for young people.
  • Date:  1 April, 2026
  • Time:  15:00 - 16:30
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  YouthLink Scotland
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Networked Misogyny: Incels, Tradwives and the Violent Fringe of the Manosphere
Focusing on online cultures such as incel communities, men’s rights activism, and trad-wife ideologies, the course examines how misogynistic beliefs are produced, shared, and normalised through digital networks—and how these narratives can shape attitudes, behaviours, and risks in women’s lives.
  • Date:  8 April, 2026
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Seeing Wellbeing, Care and Constraint Through Young People’s Eyes: What This Means for Youth Justice in Scotland
This webinar explores what young people in Scotland say about wellbeing, care, and the structural constraints shaping their everyday lives and considers what these insights mean for youth justice practice and policy.
  • Date:  9 April, 2026
  • Time:  12:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Gambling in the Family: The Hidden Harms
This training will explore gambling and the associated risks and harms, including the increasingly blurred lines between gaming and gambling.
  • Date:  21 April, 2026
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Understanding and Challenging Justice Inequalities
Join CYCJ to explore the latest research and innovative work to understand and challenge justice inequalities for children and young people who come into conflict with Scotland’s care and justice systems, focusing on two ground-breaking pieces of work.
  • Date:  21 April, 2026
  • Time:  12:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Webinar
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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Together’s UNCRC Training – Taking a Children’s Rights-based Approach in Practice
Join Together to develop your understanding of how to implement the five principles of a children’s human rights approach in your work and organisation.  
  • Date:  23 April, 2026
  • Time:  14:00 - 16:30
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Scotland’s Public and Third Sectors: Doing More With Less
The themes to be explored are shaped by decisions organisations are facing and making right now: what to stop, what to replicate, what to automate and what to redesign. This conference is designed to be practical for public and third sector delegates. It focuses on repeatable steps that finance, service, procurement, HR, digital, audit and operational teams can take quickly. Discount available for members of YouthLink Scotland.
  • Date:  28 April, 2026
  • Time:  9:00 - 13:30
  • Type:  Conference
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Level 2- Introductory Training to Youth Achievement Awards
This interactive training workshop from the Awards team at Youth Scotland will introduce you to the 4 levels of the Youth Achievement Awards, enabling you to effectively promote, support and deliver these awards in your youth group, project or school.
  • Date:  28 April, 2026
  • Time:  13:00 - 15:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Beyond the Screen: Technology and AI Facilitated Domestic Abuse
This training course equips practitioners with the knowledge and confidence to navigate the growing role of technology and artificial intelligence in abuse and safeguarding.
  • Date:  29 April, 2026
  • Time:  10:00 - 13:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Other
  • Cost:  Paid
  • Location:  Online

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Gambling in the Family: The Hidden Harms
This training will explore gambling and the associated risks and harms, including the increasingly blurred lines between gaming and gambling.
  • Date:  5 May, 2026
  • Time:  10:00 - 12:00
  • Type:  Training
  • Organiser:  Sector
  • Cost:  Free
  • Location:  Online

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