Events | Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum)

Staf Summer Sessions

Thanks to funding from the Scottish Government's Get Into Summer campaign, we're supporting young people with care experience across Scotland get into summer and focus on well being with our Summer Sessions in association with Scottish Forestry. Read on to find out how to find out more and how to take part. Read more
Participation Practitioners' Forum

Thursday 23rd September | 10am - 11.30am | Online (Zoom) Read more
Care Leavers into Employment Focus Group

Tuesday 7th September 2021 | 10.30am - 12.30pm | Online (Microsoft Teams) Read more
Local Authority Manager's Forum

Tuesday 31st August 10.30am - 12.30pm| Online (Microsoft Teams) Read more

Staf Summer Sessions

Thanks to funding from the Scottish Government's Get Into Summer campaign, we're supporting young people with care experience across Scotland get into summer and focus on well being with our Summer Sessions in association with Scottish Forestry. Read on to find out how to find out more and how to take part. Read more

Implications of Continuing Care Focus Group

Tuesday 24th August 2021 | 10am - 11.30am | Online (Microsoft Teams) Read more

More Than My Trauma

Staf is delighted to be one of the six partnership organisations taking part in a More Than My Trauma webinar series. The conference is being delivered by a partnership of organisations with direct experience of strengthening workforce understanding of adversity and supporting children, young people and families to recover from trauma. Read more

Latest

Care Leavers and The Promise Change Programme One

The Promise Change Programme One details what is happening now, what is happening next and what needs to happen to deliver Plan 21-24 and #KeepThePromise. Here we pick out the sections relating to care leavers and care and justice experienced young people.
Workforce and The Promise Change Programme One

The Promise has released their Change Programme One. Here we distil the implications this has for the throughcare and aftercare workforce.
Care-Experienced Voice

Staf has always had the voice of care-experienced young people at its heart. From the Debate Project to Project Return, The Real Toolkit and Youth Justice Voices our young people's voices have always influenced our work. Find out more about the voice of care-experienced young people.
The REAL Toolkit: Meet the Designers

Get to know the graphic designers for the REAL Toolkit - Shona and Scott from Swandco. design.

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.
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.
Vision and Values

Staf's Vision, and Values
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.
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

Find out more about Staf's history, and the exciting work we are undertaking today.
Staf Summer Sessions

Thanks to funding from the Scottish Government's Get Into Summer campaign, we're supporting young people with care experience across Scotland get into summer and focus on well being with our Summer Sessions in association with Scottish Forestry. Read on to find out how to find out more and how to take part.
Current Members

Staf currently has over 70 members, including local authorities, third sector organisations and private sector care providers.
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: