Staying Put Scotland

Staying Put Scotland: Providing care leavers with connectedness and belonging promotes an explicit philosophy of care. The central elements being the importance of relationship-based practice and extended and graduated transitions.

You can read the full guidance or download a PDF version using the links below.

Resources

Scottish Government: Staying Put Scotland (external website)

Scottish Government: Staying Put Scotland (PDF)

Latest

Participation Network Gathering: Compassion, Communication & Action in Participation

Friday 29 November | 10am-3pm | In person
Participation Practitioners' Forum

Thursday 26th September 2024 | 10am - 11.30am | Online (Zoom)
Care Leavers into Employment, Education and Training Focus Group

Tuesday 24 September 2024 | 10am to midday | Online (Microsoft Teams)
Cross Party Group on Care Leavers

Thursday 25 September 2024 | 6 to 8pm | In person at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

SPICe: Homelessness and Temporary Accommodation stats and guidance

The Scottish Parliament's information centre (SPICe) has published a blog on the current homelessness and temporary accommodation statistics with links to useful information such as guidance on types of accommodation available and legal duties.
Care experienced young people and benefits: giving good advice

CPAG Scotland and Staf published this updated joint briefing on giving benefits advice to care experienced young people. Find out more and download the briefing.
Staf's Building Relationships Advisory Group: What are they up to?

Staf's 'Building Relationships' Advisory Group is creating a comprehensive tool that will support organisations to prioritise relationship-based practice.
Relationship-based practice during lockdown

The Building Relationships Advisory Group has moved online! In its fourth meeting on the 23rd of April, the group discussed how to create environments that enable relationships during the lockdown. Find out more about the meeting in this blog.
Staf calls for changes to housing support for care leavers heeded by UK Government

Following the publication of the UK budget for 2020-21, Staf CEO Jo Derrick has welcomed changes to housing support for care leavers living in the private rented sector.
Spotlight on Best Practice: City of Edinburgh Council

In the second blog of our ‘Spotlight on best practice’ series, we look at the joint inspection of services for children and young people in the City of Edinburgh Council completed in June 2019. Here’s what’s working well in Edinburgh in delivering services for young people leaving care and the practices that are driving improvements in performance.
Spotlight on Best Practice: City of Edinburgh Council

In the second blog of our ‘Spotlight on best practice’ series, we look at the joint inspection of services for children and young people in the City of Edinburgh Council completed in June 2019. Here’s what’s working well in Edinburgh in delivering services for young people leaving care and the practices that are driving improvements in performance.
Staf's response to the UNCRC incorporation consultation

Read Staf's full response to the consultation on incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into our domestic law in Scotland.
Supporting the workforce to deliver relationship-based practice

Papoula and Norma recently took a trip down to Brighton to hear all about relationship-based practice in Brighton and Hove Council's Children's Services department. Find out what we learned in this blog.
Love in the Care System - The Forum Episode 2

In the second edition of our podcast, we met with Joanna McCreadie (Seamab) and Rosie Moore, who co-chair the Love work group at the Independent Care Review. Listen as Pamela Graham, Head of Learning and Development at Staf, asks them about their work on love.

Young Funder's Grant

Applications for the Young Funder's Grant are now closed. Alternative sources of funding are included here.
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.
Get Involved

Here at Staf we have many ways for people with care experience to get involved.
Grants of up to £750 available to care experienced young people

We are delighted to announce our Young Funder's Grant is now open for applications.
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.
Financial Support for Care Leavers
Our history

Find out more about Staf's history, and the exciting work we are undertaking today.
Local Elections 2022: Manifesto Round-Up

A look at the five main parties and their manifestos heading into the local elections 2022
GIRFEC: A Guide to Getting it Right for Every Child

GIRFEC (or Getting it Right for Every Child) is the national approach in Scotland to improving outcomes and supporting the wellbeing of our children and young people by offering the right help at the right time for the right people. Find out more about the GIRFEC approach.
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.