DYW Skills Academy: Get Industry Ready

The DYW Summer Leaver’s Programme 2021 has launched and is an ideal programme for any young person who has just left school and would like support preparing for the world of work. As a valued partner we had hoped you would help share our Summer Leavers Programme with your employees, many of them will be parents/carers or have young people who have left school this summer.  We would ask that you share

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Is that on the SCQF?: Digiknow? Champion Award

Young Scot is the national youth information and citizenship charity for 11-26 year olds in Scotland. We provide young people with high quality information, opportunities and experiences. We recently launched DigiKnow? Champions Award, in partnership with Glasgow Kelvin College to help young people build the skills and knowledge needed to be protected from online threats. The Award has been designed for young people, by young people, with our DigiKnow? Steering

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Is that on the SCQF?: First Steps to Work

Community Learning and Development in North Lanarkshire developed First Steps to Youth Work training a number of years ago. Staff saw the benefit to participants of attaching a credit rating to the training and began the third party credit rating process with Edinburgh Napier University. More recently the course has been updated and Glasgow Kelvin College provided the credit rating. The course sits on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework

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