Justice

Introducing Children's Rights: A ten-minute training tool

The Scottish Government has published a ten minute training tool: 'Introducing Children's Rights'. Find out more and access the training materials.Read more

Responding to Offending in Residential Child Care - Next Steps

Building upon previous research into offending and residential childcare, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Responses to Offending in Residential Childcare, CYCJ and Staf have been working on the 'Responding to Offending in Residential Childcare - Next Steps' project. Find out more about this work and read our progress report.Read more

Lead the Way Manifesto

The Scottish Youth Parliament launched their five year manifesto 'Lead the Way' on 12th March 2016, outlining their policy until 2021. Find out more about the Scottish Youth Parliament's five-year manifesto.Read more

Journey Through Justice

Journey Through Justice is an interactive online resource developed by CYCJ in partnership with IRISS. This guide will assist children and young people in understanding the journey through the youth justice system following being charged with an offence. Find out more.Read more

"Between a rock and a hard place": Responses to Offending in Residential Childcare

There is current and ongoing concern regarding the potential criminalisation of looked after young people. This report, written by CYCJ's Kristina Moodie and Debbie Nolan, identifies the prevalent issues and tensions and makes recommendations for going forward. Find out more and download this report.Read more

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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.

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.

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Staf Welcomes Announcement of £1.35 million for trauma training

Staf have welcomed yesterday's announcement made by deputy First Minister John Swinney that the Scottish Government will invest an additional £1.35 million to create a national training programme, developed for workers supporting people who have had adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and traumatic experiences in adulthood, such as physical or sexual abuse.