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Scottish Child Law Centre

The Centre provides free legal information and advice on the law relating to children and young people and their rights. It is a national service available to children and young people, their families, carers...

Skills Development Scotland

Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is the national skills body supporting the people and businesses of Scotland. SDS can support you to plan your career ambitions in a number of ways. The web service www.myworldofwork.co.uk allows...

UCAS - Thinking About University?

If you are considering going to University, a good starting point is to visit the UCAS website. UCAS manages more than two million applications for full-time undergraduate courses every year and they also help...

The Highland Council Employability Service

Highland Council’s Employability Services (HES) supports people of working age to progress towards and into employment. For young people we can engage with students up to 6 months before they reach their statutory school leaving...

Opportunities for All

Opportunities for All is a commitment by Scottish Government to offer a place in learning or training to every 16-19 year old who is currently not in education, employment or training. Highland Council has a...

High Life Highland & Adult and Youth Services

Adult and Youth Services, as part of Community Learning and Leisure, supports the personal development and lifelong learning of young people and adults in Highland. Adult Learning encourages people to acquire knowledge and skills, share...

Day 1 Mentoring

We do we offer? Day1 is a Scottish based charity providing young people between the ages of 14 to 17, with a year long one-to-one befriending and mentoring service, the aim of which is not...

Apex Scotland

Apex Scotland is the specialist organisation which for over 35 years has contributed to a safer Scotland by working with people with criminal convictions or at risk of committing offences to give them the necessary...

What is the Employability Pipeline?

The Strategic Skills Pipeline model has been developed as a framework to support the effective delivery of employability services. The pipeline is made up of 5 key stages, whereby the needs of the individual are...

Deaf Services

The Deaf Services Team provide a range of services throughout the Highland area for people of all ages who are Deaf, hard of hearing, deafened or Deafblind and their families and carers. The work of...

Scholar

This is an online resource which has been produced in association with Heriot Watt University to support a large number of existing SQA qualifications from Higher through to Advanced Higher, with some available at...

Mind-Full

Benefits & Support (Mental Health & Cognitive Impairment) There are many people who live with mental health or cognitive problems. They find it a struggle to cope with day to day life. When a crisis...

Lochaber Hope - Maximising Potential Programme

Lochaber Hope offers Hope, we provide a service that supports Lochaber people to cope with a wide range of sensitive, personal and challenging issue, as well as gaining key skills to be able to move...

Music Plus +

Young people aged 14-19 will be offered the opportunity to take part in a range of music activities; from instrumental and technical tuition to song-writing, new technology, DJ and rapping skills, sound engineering and entrepreneurship...

Highland's Homeless Prevention Team

The homeless prevention approach was implemented in Highland in June 2011 and has now been rolled out across the Highlands. Homeless Prevention Officers are working in your area and are currently helping young people at...

Thor House - Stage 1 + 2

What do we offer at Stage 1+2? Thor House is a custom built facility carefully designed to provide a range of client services – all under one roof. The aim within this unit is to...

Investors in Young People Accolade

Investors in Young People (IIYP) was borne out of a recommendation from the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce (DYW). The Commission, chaired by Sir Ian Wood called for the creation of an ‘Invest in...

Developing the Young Workforce (DYW)

The Developing the Young Workforce - Scotland's Youth Employment Strategy was published on 15 December 2014: a link to the press release can be found here along with a link to the published document. The...

Privacy Notice - Work Experience

Privacy notice – Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) and work-related learning for school pupils Purpose To ensure that the workplace is a safe environment for school-aged young people to undertake appropriate work-related learning and workplace...