Summer Accommodation
If you managed to get student accommodation for during the academic year, but have decided you want to hang about the area, then you’ll need to get yourself somewhere to stay over the summer before your mates come back and you look into getting a flat together. Liberty Living offers lots of summer accommodation options […]
PlanIt Plus
Career planning starts as early as choosing your subjects at school and Planit has a number of interactive tools to help you with this. There is also a CareerMatch quiz that helps you to think about your interests and identifies relevant careers, which is ideal if you’re not sure what you want to do yet. […]
Princes Trust – Support for Starting a Business
We’ve helped over 86,000 young people to start their own business – and you could be next. We work with 18 to 30-year-olds living in the UK to turn big ideas into a reality. Get in touch to sign up today.
Business Gateway
Business Gateway is delivered by local authorities. We also have strong partnerships with a wide variety of organisations to help deliver the best advice and support to Scottish businesses. We offer a range of professional resources, support and tools to help you learn new skills, create new opportunities and develop sustainable strategies for growth.
What is a Corporate Parent?
The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 defines corporate parenting as “the formal and local partnerships between all services responsible for working together to meet the needs of looked after children, young people and care leavers”. A good corporate parent will want the best outcomes for looked after young people, accept responsibility for them, […]
Changing Courses
After you’ve started a course you might realise it’s not the right one for you. This can be scary, but your college or university offers support to help. Your institution’s Student Services will talk you through everything you need to know. They might also be able to help resolve a problem that means you don’t […]
Saltire Awards & Volunteering
If you are looking to volunteer or are already volunteering the Saltire Awards is a great way to gain recognition for the hours that you give volunteering. This will look great on a personal statement or a job application. You can make an online account that will help you log your hours and you will […]
Work Experience
Work Experience is a way to build your skills and help you gain necessary experience in the area you would like to pursue as a career. Check out My World of Work’s page on Work Experience to find out where you could do a placement.
Prince’s Trust Development Award
The Prince’s Trust Development Award is funding available to young people to help support them into employment or education by taking away financial barriers. The award can be used for a variety of things like transport to a new job or tools and equipment. Check out this resource for more information about the Award and […]
What Does Care-Experienced Mean?
The term “Care-Experienced” can be difficult to understand as there are several different experiences of care. “Care-Experienced” refers to anyone who has been, or is currently in care. This care may have been provided in many different settings, such as: Adoption – the legal process of someone else becoming your parents. Kinship care – living […]