Our Supporters

Staf is supported by a wide variety of organisations, which includes our funders, sponsors, members and partners, but also includes the many organisations who have provided us with in-kind gifts.

Staf's core funding comes from the Scottish Government's Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention Fund and the Adult Learning and Empowering Communities (ALEC) fund, both of which are administered and managed by the Corra Foundation.

In 2017, Staf was awarded a grant from the Transform Foundation, allowing us to work with their partner Raising IT to develop our new website.

Youth Justice Voices, our project run in partnership with the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) to amplify the voices of care and justice-experienced young people, and Project Return, an exciting new project supporting recovery from trauma, are both funded through the Life Changes Trust.

Our Mapping Relationships project, which aims to embed and enhance relationship-based practice across Scotland, is funded through the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Shannon's Box was successfully launched in East Ayrshire Council, with the pilot funded by the National Lottery Community Fund
Books for the boxes were kindly donated by the Scottish Book Trust

In addition, we have received sponsorship from the following organisations to support high-quality learning and development opportunities for our members through national events:

Aberlour ChildCare Trust
Cyrenians
Kibble
LinkLiving
Life Changes Trust
Moore House Care and Education
National Fostering Agency
Seamab
SAAS

Find out more about our upcoming events

Our members are a great support to us every year, providing venues for meetings, sharing information and providing speakers for some of our events. Over the last couple of years we have been supported by the following members:

Glasgow City Council	Falkirk Council	Stirling Council
Fife Council	North Lanarkshire Council	West Dunbartonshire Council
CELCIS	Dundee City Council	East Renfrewshire Council
East Ayrshire Council	Aberdeen Foyer	The Good Shepherd Centre
The Promise	Life Changes Trust	Highland Council

View a list of our current members

We have also been supported by a number of other organisations who have provided in-kind donations to support us and our members and young people. This includes:

Tesco	Marks and Spencer	Morrisons
PACE Theatre Company, Paisley	McDonalds	Greggs

Latest

The REAL Toolkit: Meet the Designers

Get to know the graphic designers for the REAL Toolkit - Shona and Scott from Swandco. design.
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.
Care-Experienced Bursary data 2018-19

The Scottish Funding Council's report on the uptake of the Care Experienced Bursary has been released. We take a look at the key findings.
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.

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.
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:
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.