The Role of Youth Work in Participation and Youth Justice

Staf's Youth Justice Participation Lead shares the importance and role of of youth work in participation and youth justice. Read more
Watch, Listen, Act - Youth Justice Voices Launches #Artivism Project

YJV launches their latest project about care-experienced people expressing themselves in new and creative ways. Will those in power listen? Read more
Working in partnership to support care leavers to make change

As Care Leavers Week comes to a close, Staf CEO Jo Derrick reflects on the success of the Staf/CYCJ Youth Justice Voices project. Read more
Youth Justice Visionaries: empowering young people to lead change

We talk to Chris Marshall, one of the Youth Justice Visionaries about how the Youth Justice Voices project is empowering young people to lead change. Read more

Blogs

New sentencing guidelines for Under 25s

Kevin Lafferty, Participation Consultant at Youth Justice Voices shares his reflections on the new sentencing guidelines for under 25s in this short blog. Read more

A testament or four to Youth Just Us

We are incredibly proud of what Youth Just Us has achieved over the last two years and we were delighted to hear that our partner organisations and the Youth Just Us members agree. Read on to find out exactly what they had to say. Read more

Why Youth Just Us Matters

Youth Just Us met with the Floating Designer to literally illustrate the importance of the group from their perspective. Read more

The Role of Youth Work in Participation and Youth Justice

Staf's Youth Justice Participation Lead shares the importance and role of of youth work in participation and youth justice. Read more

Watch, Listen, Act - Youth Justice Voices Launches #Artivism Project

YJV launches their latest project about care-experienced people expressing themselves in new and creative ways. Will those in power listen? Read more

Working in partnership to support care leavers to make change

As Care Leavers Week comes to a close, Staf CEO Jo Derrick reflects on the success of the Staf/CYCJ Youth Justice Voices project. Read more

Youth Justice Visionaries: empowering young people to lead change

We talk to Chris Marshall, one of the Youth Justice Visionaries about how the Youth Justice Voices project is empowering young people to lead change. Read more

A voice and a purpose

Kevin Lafferty reflects on how Youth Justice Voices has continued to give care and justice experienced young people a space to be heard during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

If you make sure you’re connected…

Youth Justice Voices, Staf and CYCJ's creative participation project for care and justice experienced young people, is exploring how to keep young people connected and engaged during the COVID-19 UK lockdown. Ruth Kerracher updates us on new possibilities, digital dilemmas and the importance of participation. Read more

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

Latest

Staf National Conference 2021: Relationships, Rights and Keeping the Promise

Staf National Conference | 24th November 2021 | Online
Focus Group Feedback

Our regular focus groups are a great way for members of the workforce to come together and learn from each other. Don't believe us? Find out what some regular attenders had to say...
New sentencing guidelines for Under 25s

Kevin Lafferty, Participation Consultant at Youth Justice Voices shares his reflections on the new sentencing guidelines for under 25s in this short blog.
The REAL Toolkit is now live - here's how to use it!

After more than two years of development The REAL Toolkit is now LIVE and ready to use. Here's how.

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.
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.
Vision and Values

Staf's Vision, and Values
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.
Our history

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

Staf currently has over 70 members, including local authorities, third sector organisations and private sector care providers.
Relationship Based Practice: What does it really look like?

Mary Glasgow facilitated one of our workshops at our Annual Conference 2017, setting out the principles of a restorative, child-centred and family-minded approach that aims to mitigate the effect of Adverse Childhood Experiences. Find out more and download Mary's presentation.
Interview with Gerald Neil on his life, his work and reducing stress in our lives

Gerald Neil is a successful accountant and qualified stress and relaxation therapist. Here, we talk to Gerald about his background, how to improve the lives of care experienced young people and how we can all do more to reduce stress in our lives.