Work for us

Staf, the Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum, celebrates its 20th birthday this year, 2018. It is a membership organisation that was established in response to concerns that frontline practitioners shared about the major difficulties care leavers experienced during their fragile transition to adulthood and independent living. Today, 20 years later, we continue to work with our members and other local partners to share and raise issues and solutions facing this vulnerable group of young people.

We are the only membership organisation in Scotland working across, and including in our membership, 32 local authorities and 40 voluntary sector and independent organisations. These include service providers, commissioners, Corporate Parents, regulators, educators and young care-experienced people.

At the heart of all of our work is the voice of care-experienced young people and those who work closely with them. We aim to support them through our work in policy influence, sharing best practice, networking and collaboration and learning and development.

If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Sandra.

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We'd love to stay in touch with you

Data protection laws are changing on Friday 25th May 2018, giving you more control over your data and who can use it. If we don't hear from you before Friday, we might not be able to send you any more updates. Find out how to stay in the touch!
Sport protects mental health of children who experience trauma

A study published in January 2018 from Public Health Wales and Bangor University shows that people who had Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) but regularly played sports as children were less likely to have a mental illness as an adult. Find out more about the study.
A Life in Limbo

Too many homeless people are living in limbo, stuck in emergency accommodation with nowhere to wash clothes or cook. Strict curfews can be damaging to people's mental health and job prospects. Crisis are calling on the Scottish Government to make sure homeless people aren't stuck living in unsuitable hostels, B&Bs or lodging houses.
'We want to put love at the heart of Scotland's Care System

In an interview with the Guardian, Fiona Duncan (Chair of the Independent Care Review), talks about some of the findings so far, the next stage of the review, and what the review needs to do for care-experienced children and young people in Scotland.

Changing Minds, Changing Lives

Despite being a passionate and committed workforce, we know that supporting one another and our young people can often be challenging and stressful. In this final course before the summer break, we will explore how stress relief techniques can be applied to ourselves, our teams and the young people we support.
Care Leavers Into Employment Focus Group

At this meeting we will identify and consider obstacles to implementing the Youth Employment Strategy, what data we now need to collect to enhance our case for change, and join up the good practice already taking place around the country.
Healing From Trauma And Moving On

Staf's first National Conference, on 27th November 2018, will bring together national and international speakers to share the latest findings and practice from neuroscience and trauma recovery, which will serve to strengthen our existing understanding as you deliver services to the young people in your care.
Mission, vision, values

Staf's Mission, Vision, and Values
Implications of Continuing Care

At this meeting we will be continuing to understand what the barriers are to implementation, and what solutions and good practice already exist.
Support us

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

This group continues to collect quantitative data about current provisions, and has recently been discussing Corporate parenting, recruitment, the family firm model and much more.
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.
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
Connecting Voices

The Connecting Voices team of young people in East Ayrshire has led the way in showing how their experience and voices can play a key role in defining care services in the sector