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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.
National Youth Work Awards 2026
More time to nominate for the National Youth Work Awards 2026! We’ve extended the deadline for nominations to give more people the chance to put forward the youth work making a difference in their communities. You now have until 9th February to nominate your youth work heroes!

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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The Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2024 Results
The Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2024 results, published recently, contains the key findings of the question asked in the social survey on satisfaction with local schools for all adults and service users.
  • Date:  18 November, 2025

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King’s Award for Voluntary Service
Every day, millions of people across the UK are making a difference by volunteering. Each year, outstanding examples of this work are celebrated through the King’s Award for Voluntary Service (KAVS). Nominations for the 2026 round are now open and will close on 1st December.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  17 November, 2025

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National Survey Explores the Issues That Matter Most to Young People
Young people can help shape their own future by taking part in a survey and sharing their views to help Young Scot and partners design services that reflect what matters most to them. The annual Truth About Youth survey, open to everyone aged 11 to 25, explores the realities of growing up in Scotland today - from exposure to cyber crimes and scams, social media, body image and mental wellbeing.
  • Topic:  Research
  • Date:  17 November, 2025

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Young Carer Grant Extended to 19-year-olds
Young carers up to age 19 will now receive Young Carer Grant following an expansion of the benefit delivered by Social Security Scotland. The grant which was previously open to 16 to 18-year-olds is a Scottish only benefit that gives young carers a yearly payment of £390.25.
  • Date:  17 November, 2025

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Scotland’s Poverty-Related Youth Volunteering Gap
Young people in the most deprived areas in Scotland face more barriers to accessing high quality volunteering opportunities. This paper highlights the challenges we need to address in order to create more equitable and inclusive volunteering opportunities.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  14 November, 2025

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Global Solvers Accelerator
The Global Solvers Accelerator is a peer-to-peer learning platform that unites  emerging social entrepreneurs from around the world, to nurture their leadership capacity, enhance their skills, strengthen their projects, and grow their impact in their local communities and beyond. Applications are now open for 2026 - apply by 1st December.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  13 November, 2025

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Latest Figures on Young People and Gambling Released
The Gambling Commission has published its Young People and Gambling Report 2025 – the annual study that helps understand children’s and young people’s exposure to, and involvement in, all types of gambling.
  • Topic:  Addiction
  • Date:  13 November, 2025

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Thousands of Online Grooming Crimes in Scotland During Past Five Years
More than 3,000 online grooming crimes have been recorded by Police Scotland during the past five years, new data compiled by the NSPCC reveals. Find out more about new research highlighting a range of tools tech companies, Ofcom, and Government can employ to protect children from perpetrators.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work
  • Date:  12 November, 2025

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Young People’s Views of Nicotine Pouches in the UK
This paper is the first qualitative study in the UK to explore the views of 14-16 year olds’ awareness of, access to and use of nicotine pouches.
  • Topic:  Addiction, Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  12 November, 2025

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YouthLink Scotland AGM 2025
The 30th Annual General Meeting of YouthLink Scotland will be held on Wednesday 26th November at 4.30pm at our offices in Edinburgh (if you can’t join the AGM in person, there will be an online Zoom option available). The AGM will be preceded at 3.30pm by an input from Dr Emma Davidson, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at University of Edinburgh on Beyond safe spaces: youth work’s role in shaping brave conversations on masculinities. 
  • Date:  10 November, 2025

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Seeing Beyond the Surface: What Children and Young People Wish All Adults Knew
Our Hearings, Our Voice has released a new guide for adults who work with children and young people who have care and children’s hearings experience, and written by children and young people themselves. The guide offers firsthand accounts of the things children and young people wish adults knew, including their frustrations and hopes.
  • Topic:  Care
  • Date:  10 November, 2025

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Young people missing from vaccine services
YouthLink Scotland has been commissioned by Public Health Scotland to conduct a study to explore why some young people are missing from vaccine services. We are now looking for six youth work organisations to take part in a participatory research project with a small amount of funding. Please submit expressions of interest by Friday 21st November.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing, Research
  • Date:  10 November, 2025

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