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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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Effective Youth Work Approaches to Tackling Attendance
Check out our new resources aimed at supporting schools and youth work teams to enable them to work together to create the right conditions for engagement and learning.
National Youth Work Conference 2024
Join us at the National Youth Work Conference on Tuesday 5th November in Glasgow where we’ll be examining how youth work’s early interventions not only repairs but prevents fractures in our communities. 

Members Network
Members Network
We are pleased to open bookings for our final Members Network meeting of 2024. This meeting will focus on empowering young people to have a healthy relationship with their phone. Please note this event is for members of YouthLink Scotland only. Online 12th December
YouthLink Scotland’s Position Statement on Post-School Education and Skills Reform
YouthLink Scotland’s recommendations in response to the consultation on Post-school Education and Skills Reform Legislation.

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Scottish Educational Exchange Programme - Test and Learn Project
We are encouraging the youth work sector to reach out to College and University partners to explore potential to collaborate and for this opportunity to benefit young people through youth work. The application deadline is 15 September.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability, International
  • Date:  19 August, 2024

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Youth Work's Role in Tackling Homelessness
This joint policy briefing paper is aimed at policy makers and highlights how youth work’s focus on early intervention and prevention can mitigate the impacts of and the number of young people who experience youth homelessness.
  • Topic:  Housing/Homelessness, Policy & Influencing
  • Date:  19 August, 2024

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Tackling Gendered Violence
Next steps to address violence against women and girls, including measures to combat culturally specific forms of violence, have been unveiled.
  • Topic:  Equality, Violence
  • Date:  13 August, 2024

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New LGBTIQ+ Inclusive Youth Work Resources and Training
This free eLearning Platform offers five interactive online courses to gain the basic knowledge and skills to work with LGBTIQ+ young people. There's also a Manual which includes key information about working with LGBTIQ+ young people, best practice guidelines, information on how to support and safeguard LGBTIQ+ young people, and ready-to-use activities.
  • Topic:  Equality
  • Date:  12 August, 2024

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Scotland's Youth Arts Open Fund launches a second round of national funding
Over £440,000 will be made available to support the delivery of free community-based arts activities for children and young people living in Scotland.
  • Topic:  Funding
  • Date:  6 August, 2024

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New Service to Support Care-experienced Young People to Find Their Forever Home
Barnardo's has launched a new service in South Lanarkshire to help care-experienced young people manage their own home and to live independently.
  • Topic:  Care, Housing/Homelessness
  • Date:  5 August, 2024

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Call for Participants - Research on Food-related Videos on Social Media
Researchers are looking for participants aged 18 to 25 years old, living in the UK for the past five years, to take part in a study to understand how young people engage with food-related videos on social media and how these videos impact their decisions about food.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  5 August, 2024

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Decoding the Digital Skills Gap
Prince's Trust research warns of 'digital skills crisis' as over a third of young people worry they do not have the digital skills to get a job. 
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work, Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  1 August, 2024

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Job Start Payment for Young People
Find out more about the Job Start Payment - a one-off payment of £314.45 to help with the costs of starting a new job including clothes, equipment and transport.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  31 July, 2024

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The Promise Package
Young Scot and Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) have come together to offer support for young people who are care and justice experienced.
  • Topic:  Care
  • Date:  31 July, 2024

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Gen Z Swerves Traditional Broadcast TV
For the first time, less than half of 16-24-year-olds are now watching broadcast TV in an average week, according to Ofcom’s annual study into the nation’s media habits.
  • Topic:  Leisure & Recreation
  • Date:  31 July, 2024

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Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 Part 11 - Continuing Care: Guidance
This refreshed guidance for local authorities on continuing care aims to reflect developments in policy and practice as well as providing clarity to those who provide support services by addressing implementation gaps.
  • Topic:  Care, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  31 July, 2024

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