This Youth Work Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the Manifesto for 2026 – A Right, A Space, A Future – and show how your work every day is delivering on its national commitments and strategic priorities.
This Youth Work Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the Manifesto for 2026 – A Right, A Space, A Future – and show how your work every day is delivering on its national commitments and strategic priorities.
Youth workers create safe, welcoming spaces, indoors and outdoors, online and in communities—where young people are free to grow, explore, and thrive. In today’s fast-changing world, safeguarding is more than physical protection. It means nurturing emotional resilience, promoting digital wellbeing, tackling harm and exploitation, and offering positive, preventative alternatives that change lives.
This year’s theme, Safe Spaces, Strong Futures, connects directly to our youth work manifesto vision: a Scotland where every young person has a right, a space, a future. That means:
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