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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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Young People Not in Education, Employment or Training
Office for National Statistics estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  27 August, 2025

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Digital Influence: Young people’s Exposure to the Marketing of Cigarettes, Vapes, Unhealthy Food/Drinks, and Alcohol
Children and young people are being constantly exposed to videos and images promoting unhealthy food, particularly when shared by influencers. That’s the warning from Cancer Research UK, who surveyed 4,000 children and young people aged 11 to 21 across the UK.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work, Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  26 August, 2025

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Talking about Heritage
Historic Environment Scotland is inviting people across Scotland to take part in a national conversation about heritage, encouraging them to share their perspectives and help shape how it is recognised and looked after in the future. As part of this they'll be launching their Youth Heritage Challenge - young people can register their interest now!
  • Topic:  Arts, Culture & Leisure
  • Date:  26 August, 2025

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Education Outcomes for Looked After Children 2023/24
Information on attendance and achievement of curriculum for excellence levels for looked after children in Scotland, and attainment and leaver destinations of looked after school leavers in 2023/24.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  26 August, 2025

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Our Voices, Our Stories
'Our Voices, Our Stories' supports young people to explore poverty, stigma, and community through storytelling. It was created as part of a pilot project led by West Dunbartonshire Citizens Advice Bureau, the Glasgow Social Policy Project, Glasgow Caledonian University, and St Peter the Apostle High School. 
  • Topic:  Poverty
  • Date:  25 August, 2025

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Restraint and Seclusion in Scottish Schools: A Call to Action for Children’s Rights
The Restraint Reduction Network, along with charities and organisations promoting children’s rights in Scotland, have shared a manifesto ask with Scottish political parties, urging them to commit to protecting children from the harmful and unregulated use of restraint and seclusion in schools ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  25 August, 2025

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Schools Directory 2025: Violence Prevention
This directory brings together a wide range of evidence-based, proven violence prevention resources in one accessible place. Each programme included has been developed by experienced organisations working in Scottish schools, and aligns with national priorities for health and wellbeing, relationships education, inclusion, and safeguarding.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability, Violence
  • Date:  21 August, 2025

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Study Links Teen Vaping to Increased Risk of Smoking and Health Issues
Research from the University of York and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine shows that there is strong evidence that e-cigarette use may act as a gateway to cigarette smoking and other health issues in young people.
  • Date:  20 August, 2025

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Children’s Data Lives
Research from Revealing Reality, commissioned by the Information Commissioner's Office, is now in its second year. It tracks a cohort of children to uncover how their experiences are shaped by data-driven digital design and what this means for their evolving relationship with data. Check out the latest report.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work
  • Date:  20 August, 2025

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Exploring Ethical Partnerships Between the Youth Work Sector and the Tech Sector - Fellowship Opportunity
Could you or someone you know, help us create guidance to support the youth work sector to build positive, ethical, values-led relationships with digital technology companies?
  • Date:  18 August, 2025

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“Exclusion Labelled as Support”: Care Experienced Children in Scotland’s Education System
A new report commissioned by the Children and Young People Commissioner Scotland and created by Who Cares? Scotland to illustrate and amplify the current educational experiences of Care Experienced children and young people and to gather their views on the priorities for change within education.
  • Topic:  Care, Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  18 August, 2025

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Socioeconomic Disadvantage on Child Mental Health
This study provides one of the most comprehensive examinations to date of how different types of mental health difficulties – internalising (e.g. anxiety, sadness) and externalising (e.g. impulsivity, defiance) – manifest across childhood and adolescence, and how these patterns are shaped by early life socioeconomic disadvantage.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  14 August, 2025

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