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To keep you up-to-date we’ve brought together the latest news, reports and research relating to mental health and care-experienced young people from the past month. Here’s what you need to know. Read more
At the end of October we welcomed back Tony Bloemendaal with his colleague Roland Verdow to Scotland to support us as we explored trauma-sensitive care giving and workforce wellbeing. Here's what we learned. Read more
Youth Justice Participation Worker, Ruth Kerracher gives us an overview of Staf and CYCJ’s participation project Youth Justice Voices and how youth work plays an integral role in this work. Read more
On 24 September with a little bit of rocket science and a lot of energy we launched Project Return’s steering group at our offices in Glasgow. Project Return has been created to explore how safe nurturing environments and healthy relationships can resolve trauma. Read more
With the UK parliament election polling to take place on December 12th, we highlight some of the manifesto commitments made by the UK’s four largest parties (The Scottish National Party, The Labour Party, The Liberal Democrats, and The Conservative and Unionist Party) that could impact on care leavers and those that support them. Read more
This year's Care Experienced Week was from the 19th - 26th of October, with events happening all over Scotland, and it's fair to say the Staf team got well and truly stuck in! Read more
Project Return is looking for people with care and/or justice experience, alongside members of the workforce to join this projects steering group. We are now meeting fortnightly - email [email protected] to find out more and get involved! Read more
What would the world look like if young people in and leaving care had the relationships they require to thrive? That was the question I posed at our three Mapping Relationships workshops – in Aberdeen, Glasgow and online – which were buzzing with discussion and positive ideas for change. Read more
Youth Just Us, the steering group behind the CYCJ/Staf Youth Justice Voices project, have already made a substantial impact, with interest from policy makers and politicians. Ruth Kerracher shares the key messages emerging as a result of the dedicated efforts of these dynamic young people. Read more
Pamela Graham, our Head of Learning and Development, has contributed a blog to Children in Scotland's '25 Calls' campaign. In the article, Pamela argues that the collection of robust data on the mental health of young people with care experience could lead to action to radically improve their transition to adulthood. Read more
Our new CEO, Jo Derrick, introduces herself to our members in this blog, setting out her high ambitions for Staf and for the young people our members support. Read more
In the second blog of our ‘Spotlight on best practice’ series, we look at the joint inspection of services for children and young people in the City of Edinburgh Council completed in June 2019. Here’s what’s working well in Edinburgh in delivering services for young people leaving care and the practices that are driving improvements in performance. Read more