Relationship-Based Practice Benchmarking Toolkit

Supporting the workforce to deliver relationship-based practice

Papoula and Norma recently took a trip down to Brighton to hear all about relationship-based practice in Brighton and Hove Council's Children's Services department. Find out what we learned in this blog. Read more

Join us at the Mapping Relationships workshops!

Staf Learning and Development Project Worker, Papoula Petri Romão tells us all about the upcoming Mapping Relationships workshops. Read more

Mapping Relationships: we want to hear from you

Staf has launched a new project called Mapping Relationships to support you to develop relationship-based practice. Find out more about how you can get involved in this exciting new project. Read more

How our new project will support our members to prioritise relationships

Staf is embarking on a new project to support the development of relationship-based practice. In this blog, we give you a quick outline of the project. Read more

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Spotlight on Best Practice: City of Edinburgh Council

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.

New Staf Leadership Team Announced

SallyAnn Kelly and Carole Dearie have been announced as the incoming Chair and Vice-Chair respectively on the Staf Board of Directors, and will support new CEO Jo Derrick. Find out more about Staf's new leadership team here.

Spotlight on Best Practice: City of Edinburgh Council

Staf welcomes new support for care-experienced young people in the Programme for Government

Norma Corlette, Staf Chief Executive, has today (Wednesday 3 September) welcomed the Scottish Government’s plans for the year ahead, hailing the young people who have “raised their voice and delivered change”.

Implications of Continuing Care Report

Staf has been working as part of a consortium of colleagues from across the sector which has been meeting about the implementation of Continuing Care. Following our Implications of Continuing Care focus group in February 2018, we produced a report looking at the issues and the good practice taking place across Scotland.

Scotland to host an International Child Trauma Conference in 2020

On 17-18 September 2020 we will be hosting an International Child Trauma conference with Dr Bruce Perry alongside partners Aberlour, Clackmannanshire Education and Psychology Services, Seamab, Kibble, and Children in Scotland. Find out more in this blog.

The Importance of Relationships

We are working on a project to highlight the importance of relationships in the lives of care-experienced young people. Find out more about the project.

Mission, Vision, and Values

Staf's Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Team

Announcing Our New and Improved Website

Following almost a year of research, consultation and hard work, we are proud to say that our new website is live. Find out more about how we transformed our website.

Policy and Practice: Care Experienced Bursary

The Care Experienced bursary was introduced to support care experienced young people in further and higher education. Find out more about the bursary, and how this relates to practice, here:

Our history

We are here to support all those seeking to help care-experienced young people in their transition to independent living by listening, sharing and acting on the voices that matter most

Support us

At Staf we are grateful to all those who support us. Find out how you can support us today.

Norma Corlette

CEO