Youth Justice Voices

Youth Just Us

Our project to support the participation of young people with care and justice experience is gathering pace. Here's the latest from Ruth Kerracher, our Youth Justice Participation Worker. Read more

Putting young people in the driving seat

This week, Staf and CYCJ's Youth Justice Voices project got underway with the first info session at our office - putting young people in the driving seat in more ways that one! Find out more. Read more

How Staf is amplifying the voice of young people with experience of the care and justice systems

Ruth Kerracher, Youth Justice Participation Worker, gives an overview of Staf and CYCJ's new project to amplify the voice of young people with experience of the care and justice systems. Read more

Latest

New Income Supplement must tackle care leaver poverty

Staf is supportive of the stated aim of the proposed Income Supplement – to lift the maximum number of children out of poverty – and echoes the call for it to be delivered as quickly as possible. We are concerned, however, that the new benefit will not reach all young people leaving care or those that support them.

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.

Mapping Relationships Workshop (Online)

Tuesday 8th October | 2pm - 4pm | Online Workshop

Mapping Relationships Workshop (Glasgow)

Tuesday 1st October | 2pm - 4pm | Staf Offices, Glasgow

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

As a country, we’ve become increasingly aware of the impact of adversity and trauma on children, young people and families. Indeed some of the work going on in Scotland is truly world-leading.

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, 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