Youth Justice Voices

Youth Justice Voices: Update on the project and supporting young people during Covid-19

In this blog, Ruth Kerracher provides an update on Youth Justice Voices' work in the context of Covid-19. Read below to find out all about Youth Just Us, digital participation, maintaining connections, and the launch date for the Artivism digital exhibition. Read more

2019 in review: what have the projects been up to?

The Project Leads at Staf give us a quick round up of all the things they've been up to in 2019, and what to expect in 2020! Read more

Taking a youth work approach to participation

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

Youth Justice Voices announces new creative collaboration

Staf and CYCJ’s Scotland-wide participation project, Youth Justice Voices, is delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration with Articulate Cultural Trust and Scottish artist Scott Lang (Slang), exploring identity through a range of creative art forms. Read more

We’re listening – key messages from Youth Just Us

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

Another busy month for the young people of Youth Just Us

Ruth Kerracher, Youth Justice Participation Worker at Staf and CYCJ, gives us an update on the work of the Youth Just Us steering group over the last month. Read more

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

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The Promise explained: what the Care Review means for the workforce

Scotland’s Independent Care Review has published its final conclusions. Five reports have been published and the main report ‘The Promise’ runs to 124 pages. To keep our members informed, we will set out the conclusions in a series of brief summaries.

The Care Review

Staf news and blogs regarding The Care Review

Reflecting on 6 months of Project Return

In this blog Project Return Development Worker, Jenny Ferguson, reflects on the last 6 months of Project Return and provides an update on the next steps.

Youth Justice Voices: Update on the project and supporting young people during Covid-19

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.