Togetheroo

Project Return will be hosting national big breakfast morning on the 25st of May. The day will aim to mark the importance of relationships by encouraging organisations, houses, and teams to host their own community breakfast with creative resources available from us. Our motto for the day will be delivered by us and changed by you. Read more
Shannon's Box

Created by Shannon when in role as 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. Read more

Projects

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Togetheroo

Project Return will be hosting national big breakfast morning on the 25st of May. The day will aim to mark the importance of relationships by encouraging organisations, houses, and teams to host their own community breakfast with creative resources available from us. Our motto for the day will be delivered by us and changed by you. Read more

Shannon's Box

Created by Shannon when in role as 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. Read more

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. Read more

Project Return

Funded by the Life Changes Trust, Project Return will bring together young people and practitioners to aid our understanding of trauma and trauma-informed practice, and to explore the supportive environments we know are required to support recovery and the development of relationships. Read more

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 Read more

Latest

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.
Proudly presenting The REAL Toolkit

We are proud to announce that The REAL Toolkit, an online resource created for and by care leavers and the workforce is now LIVE.
Response to Programme for Government 21-22

Read our response to the Scottish Government's 21 - 22 Programme for Government.

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.
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.
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.