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#Education Needs Youth Work

Find out how you can get involved in our #EducationNeedsYouthWork campaign happening from 1st to 5th December.

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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Educators: Where are we on LfS and Climate Change?

The Scottish Government and Education Scotland, through Keep Scotland Beautiful, have commenced a consultation process involving pupils, educators, senior management teams and local authority officers. As part of this, they would like to invite you to answer a survey which will be key to help identify next steps on Learning for Sustainability, and climate education and engagement.

Date: 14 October, 2025

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What Has AI Got to Do with Youth Work?

This week it’s AI Week and we are taking part in the week by gathering your views on the support you need to include AI in your youth work practice. Please tell us what you think to help us position our AI guidance for the youth work sector. The survey is a few quick questions and will only take you a couple of minutes.

Topic: Digital Youth Work
Date: 14 October, 2025

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Rock Trust's New Website and Brand

YouthLink Scotland member Rock Trust has launched a brand-new website and evolved brand, providing an enhanced digital platform to support young people experiencing homelessness in Scotland.

Topic: Housing/Homelessness
Date: 14 October, 2025

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Anxiety Emerges as Most Common Mental Health Concern for Children Reaching Out to Childline

Anxiety has been revealed as the main mental health concern for children and young people when receiving help from Childline. This World Mental Health Day, Childline is encouraging young people to reach out to the service for support.

Date: 10 October, 2025

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New Project Will Support Ethical Partnerships with the Tech Sector

We’re delighted to launch our Include Plus Fellowship project. The purpose of the fellowship is to understand where there is genuine alignment between youth work and the tech sector, identify opportunities for ethical collaboration, and develop practical guidance that helps youth work organisations assess and navigate potential partnerships with confidence and integrity.

Topic: Digital Youth Work
Date: 8 October, 2025

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Vaping and Smoking Among Scottish Adolescents

This report presents results for Scotland from the ASH Smokefree GB Youth survey to provide a picture of adolescent use of vapes, tobacco and other nicotine products, alongside insights into perceptions of harm and views on policy measures.

Topic: Addiction, Health & Wellbeing
Date: 7 October, 2025

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Gen(eration) AI Report

The King’s Trust has recently launched the findings of new research commissioned with Public First on the impact of AI on young people’s employment. The new economic modelling and large-scale polling has produced a detailed analysis of how AI is likely to affect young people’s place in the labour market.

Topic: Digital Youth Work, Education, Skills & Employability
Date: 7 October, 2025

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Glasgow's Big Youth Survey

We are currently working with Glasgow Life to help them engage with young people across Glasgow to understand the issues affecting them in their local community and how best to support them. This is an opportunity for young people to share their views with us through a short survey until 31st October.

Topic: Research
Date: 7 October, 2025

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Poverty in Scotland 2025

This year’s Poverty in Scotland report from Joseph Rowntree Foundation is published in the context of people feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians. It is a context in which the economy is not working and in which low-paid, insecure work is entangled with high costs.

Topic: Poverty, Research
Date: 6 October, 2025

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Children's Online Safety Could Provide £3bn to UK Businesses

Research by the NSPCC and Baringa has found that UK businesses could unlock up to £3 billion in revenue by prioritising children's online safety. This comes as a new report reveals that 71% of adults think companies that prioritise children's online safety are more trustworthy.

Topic: Digital Youth Work
Date: 6 October, 2025

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Bairns' Hoose - Scottish Barnahus: Vision, Principles and Approach

The Scottish Government has recently published a factsheet that sets out the vision of how Barnahus should be implemented in Scotland, the principles which should underpin the model and our approach to its practical implementation.

Date: 6 October, 2025

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Youth Voices Survey

No Knives, Better Lives are conducting research on young peoples’ perceptions of violence and garner their views on how to prevent violence. To help us better understand young people’s views we have a survey for all young people aged 11-25 years to complete. The survey is open until 7th November.

Topic: Research, Violence
Date: 6 October, 2025

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