Please note: Your booking won't be accepted until you provide all your details. We need all your information to create your login to the e-learning platform.

Ready for Youth Work is a practical course for youth workers and volunteers to ensure that they can: create a safe space for young people; plan, deliver and evaluate fun youth work sessions for young people; engage young people meaningfully and celebrate and recognise their achievements.

This is an e-learning course, for which you will need a laptop or computer. After signing up you will be emailed a login to Youth Scotland's e-learning platform. You will receive your login within 7 days of signing up. You can work through the six modules at times that are convenient to you. You will have until 31st October 2025 to complete the course.

The modules are:

Introduction to Youth Work
Introduction to Hi5 and Dynamic Youth Awards
Child Protection Awareness
Leading Games, Session Planning, and Creative Evaluation
Introduction to Youth Participation
Involving Young People in Decision Making

Accreditation is available at SCQF Level 3. The e-learning course will explain how to access this.

Our funding supports training to be delivered to Residents of Scotland only.

Youth worker training is in high demand – please help us support youth workers to access the training and development they deserve with these simple steps:

Tell us if you no longer want to take part in e-learning. This allows us to free up the space for another youth worker.
You will receive your e-learning login information by email. Make sure you check your email, including your spam folder, for the message with your login details.

Thank you for using our training and helping us to continue supporting the needs of our members and community-based youth work.

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