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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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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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Young Workers Won’t Wait
Young people are in spiralling debt after years of “wage discrimination” according to a new report from Scotland’s largest trade union body. The STUC report: ‘Young Workers Won’t Wait’ reveals how, because of low rates for young people,  66% of respondents said they were in debt with debt levels in the region of £3,000 – £10,000, whilst only 46% said they could always afford the basics in life, such as food, transport and bills.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  13 August, 2025

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Getting it Right for Play 2025 Revised Version
This toolkit by Play Scotland is designed to help local authorities assess local play spaces and produce Play Sufficiency reports. The resource has been shaped by extensive engagement with families, communities, and organisations, with a strong focus on the voices and experiences of children and young people with additional support needs. 
  • Date:  13 August, 2025

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Attainment Rises Across the Board
The number of students achieving passes at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher level, as well as in vocational and technical courses, has increased across Scotland this year.  
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  13 August, 2025

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Youth Work Data Course
As the world becomes increasingly digitised, we’ve witnessed exponential growth in data with the total amount of global data estimated to double every two years. We know data is important, but do we know how to use it for good in the world of youth work? This course is a response to the need for the youth work sector to recognise the ever-increasing importance of data in making decisions in the modern world and to help youth workers and managers develop skills in this area that will drive forward success for the sector in general and young people in particular. Enrolment is now open for the course starting on 23rd September - the course needs to be completed by 31st January 2026.
  • Topic:  Digital Youth Work, Evaluation
  • Date:  12 August, 2025

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New CPD Accredited E-Learning Course Empowers Teachers, Youth Workers & Practitioners to Tackle Knife Crime
No Knives Better Lives (NKBL) has unveiled a new, free and fully accredited e-learning course aimed at teachers, youth workers, police, and violence-prevention professionals across Scotland: Better Lives: Understanding Violence Prevention and Knife Carrying. 
  • Topic:  No Knives Better Lives, Training & Development
  • Date:  28 July, 2025

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Scotland's Youth Arts Open Fund launches a third round of national funding
A total of £740k will be made available to support the delivery of free community-based arts activities for children and young people living in Scotland thanks to a funding partnership between YouthLink Scotland, Creative Scotland and Scottish Government.
  • Topic:  Funding
  • Date:  28 July, 2025

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Childline Joins Forces with Police Scotland to Support Young People in Custody
Children in police custody in Glasgow are being offered confidential support from Childline as part of a new initiative. The project, being run by the NSPCC, the children’s charity which delivers Childline, and Police Scotland, provides children in custody with information about the support service and offers them the chance to talk confidentially to a counsellor. 
  • Date:  24 July, 2025

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