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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Shannon's Box

Created by Shannon, our Youth Facilitator, Shannon's Box is designed to make entering care a little easier for children and young people. Find out more about this project.

Chief Executive Officer

We are looking for a Chief Executive Officer with the passion, skill and ambition to take Staf forwards, leading a small dedicated team in ensuring Staf continues to increase its reach and influence, helping to make Scotland the best place in the world to grow up.

Do you want to help shape Staf policy?

Staf is delighted to announce the formation of a new Policy Engagement Group to ensure that the voice of our members is at the heart of our political output. Check out this short blog for an overview of the group's remit, and get in touch if you are interested in getting involved.

Mapping Relationships: we want to hear from you

Staf is launching 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.

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.