Staf
@stafscot.bsky.social
Scotland’s national membership organisation for everyone involved in the lives of young people moving on from care
Scottish Charity SC030522
https://www.staf.scot
Scottish Charity SC030522
https://www.staf.scot
Closing out this year’s national conference with our CEO Jo reflecting on our theme of thriving in complexity - deepening relationship-based practice with young people at the heart
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Closing out this year’s national conference with our CEO Jo reflecting on our theme of thriving in complexity - deepening relationship-based practice with young people at the heart
Our afternoon workshops went down a storm and we’re rounding out the day with a discussion on developing the Moving On Route Map
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Our afternoon workshops went down a storm and we’re rounding out the day with a discussion on developing the Moving On Route Map
Our first set of workshops are underway including Charlene from Carolina House Trust, who is sharing their work around the importance of psychological safety, learning and wellbeing in the context of care.
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Our first set of workshops are underway including Charlene from Carolina House Trust, who is sharing their work around the importance of psychological safety, learning and wellbeing in the context of care.
Our keynote address from SallyAnn Kelly OBE explores relational leadership and how the strength and quality of our relationships is at the heart of everything we do
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Our keynote address from SallyAnn Kelly OBE explores relational leadership and how the strength and quality of our relationships is at the heart of everything we do
We’re fully warmed up after a classic Staf ‘not an ice breaker’ so Pamela is now introducing us to today’s theme
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We’re fully warmed up after a classic Staf ‘not an ice breaker’ so Pamela is now introducing us to today’s theme
Cheryle welcoming everyone to today’s Staf National Conference in Stirling - we’re looking forward to a full day of speakers and workshops all about thriving together in complexity
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Cheryle welcoming everyone to today’s Staf National Conference in Stirling - we’re looking forward to a full day of speakers and workshops all about thriving together in complexity
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED
As we celebrate the contribution of our Board this #TrusteesWeek we would love to hear from Staf members interested in joining. Can you help achieve our shared vision and improve the lives of young people across Scotland leaving care?
www.staf.scot/board-member...
As we celebrate the contribution of our Board this #TrusteesWeek we would love to hear from Staf members interested in joining. Can you help achieve our shared vision and improve the lives of young people across Scotland leaving care?
www.staf.scot/board-member...
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED
As we celebrate the contribution of our Board this #TrusteesWeek we would love to hear from Staf members interested in joining. Can you help achieve our shared vision and improve the lives of young people across Scotland leaving care?
www.staf.scot/board-member...
As we celebrate the contribution of our Board this #TrusteesWeek we would love to hear from Staf members interested in joining. Can you help achieve our shared vision and improve the lives of young people across Scotland leaving care?
www.staf.scot/board-member...
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If you're interested in work on friendship and care, don't miss out on this conference next week - our Co-Director @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social and @stafscot.bsky.social are launching their resources. Watch this space for more soon! #AcademicSky
We are launching our care experience and friendship respurces at this conference next week - the whole team are really excited #cocreation #socialwork - still some
Places if you want to come along www.staf.scot/event/staf-n...
Places if you want to come along www.staf.scot/event/staf-n...
Staf National Conference 2025 - 11/11/2025 10:00:00
Tuesday 11 November 2025 | 10am to 4pm | Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling
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November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you're interested in work on friendship and care, don't miss out on this conference next week - our Co-Director @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social and @stafscot.bsky.social are launching their resources. Watch this space for more soon! #AcademicSky
As we celebrate Care Experienced Week 2025, we are reflecting on this year's theme of rights.
We recently celebrated 6 years of our Youth Justice Voices project in partnership with CYCJ.
@cycjscotland.bsky.social
@thepromise.scot
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We recently celebrated 6 years of our Youth Justice Voices project in partnership with CYCJ.
@cycjscotland.bsky.social
@thepromise.scot
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October 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As we celebrate Care Experienced Week 2025, we are reflecting on this year's theme of rights.
We recently celebrated 6 years of our Youth Justice Voices project in partnership with CYCJ.
@cycjscotland.bsky.social
@thepromise.scot
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We recently celebrated 6 years of our Youth Justice Voices project in partnership with CYCJ.
@cycjscotland.bsky.social
@thepromise.scot
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Have you signed up to talk about the new Moving On Route Map? We need views from the TCAC workforce to help us move to the next stage of development. There are spaces at our next session, this Tue 21 Oct, or you can sign up for another upcoming session on our site. www.staf.scot/Event/moving...
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Have you signed up to talk about the new Moving On Route Map? We need views from the TCAC workforce to help us move to the next stage of development. There are spaces at our next session, this Tue 21 Oct, or you can sign up for another upcoming session on our site. www.staf.scot/Event/moving...
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NEW BLOG: Navigating care experience and education
We share more about our new hub of practical tools, rights guidance and real stories – and how we built it.
Read here: enquire.org.uk/the-promise/...
#KeepThePromise #CareExperience #AdditionalSupportForLearning
We share more about our new hub of practical tools, rights guidance and real stories – and how we built it.
Read here: enquire.org.uk/the-promise/...
#KeepThePromise #CareExperience #AdditionalSupportForLearning
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
NEW BLOG: Navigating care experience and education
We share more about our new hub of practical tools, rights guidance and real stories – and how we built it.
Read here: enquire.org.uk/the-promise/...
#KeepThePromise #CareExperience #AdditionalSupportForLearning
We share more about our new hub of practical tools, rights guidance and real stories – and how we built it.
Read here: enquire.org.uk/the-promise/...
#KeepThePromise #CareExperience #AdditionalSupportForLearning
We have a few spaces at tomorrow’s launch event for our brand new online learning portal. Be the first to see how it works and what you can learn. Click the link to register free.
www.staf.scot/Event/online...
www.staf.scot/Event/online...
WeLearn Learning Portal Launch - 30/09/2025 13:30:00
Tuesday 30 September 2025 | 1.30-4pm | In person at The Ramshorn, Glasgow
www.staf.scot
September 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We have a few spaces at tomorrow’s launch event for our brand new online learning portal. Be the first to see how it works and what you can learn. Click the link to register free.
www.staf.scot/Event/online...
www.staf.scot/Event/online...
Find out why you should join one of our Moving On Route Map engagement sessions to help take our next steps in this journey together.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Find out why you should join one of our Moving On Route Map engagement sessions to help take our next steps in this journey together.
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buff.ly/BcjoIS8
💌 Got something to say about friendship?
If you’ve got care experience, we’d love to see your art – poetry, photos, drawings, stories or music.
Submit by 6 October 2025 to ruth@staf.scot
If you’ve got care experience, we’d love to see your art – poetry, photos, drawings, stories or music.
Submit by 6 October 2025 to ruth@staf.scot
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
💌 Got something to say about friendship?
If you’ve got care experience, we’d love to see your art – poetry, photos, drawings, stories or music.
Submit by 6 October 2025 to ruth@staf.scot
If you’ve got care experience, we’d love to see your art – poetry, photos, drawings, stories or music.
Submit by 6 October 2025 to ruth@staf.scot
We’re pleased to announce that our Focus Groups & Forums are back. Our next Implications of Continuing Care Focus Group will take place on 23 September.
This is an opportunity to connect, learn and share experiences. 💜
Sign up here: www.staf.scot/Event/implic...
This is an opportunity to connect, learn and share experiences. 💜
Sign up here: www.staf.scot/Event/implic...
September 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We’re pleased to announce that our Focus Groups & Forums are back. Our next Implications of Continuing Care Focus Group will take place on 23 September.
This is an opportunity to connect, learn and share experiences. 💜
Sign up here: www.staf.scot/Event/implic...
This is an opportunity to connect, learn and share experiences. 💜
Sign up here: www.staf.scot/Event/implic...
If you are interested in joining a Board that listens deeply, cares openly, and acts with love – and if you believe in shaping a Scotland where every young person leaving care has the chance to thrive – we would love to hear from you.
More info: www.staf.scot/board-member...
More info: www.staf.scot/board-member...
September 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
If you are interested in joining a Board that listens deeply, cares openly, and acts with love – and if you believe in shaping a Scotland where every young person leaving care has the chance to thrive – we would love to hear from you.
More info: www.staf.scot/board-member...
More info: www.staf.scot/board-member...
Youth Justice Voices is looking for 16–25-year-olds with care or justice experience in Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Take part in creative projects, share your views, and help influence national change. 💜
More Info: www.staf.scot/Listing/Cate...
Take part in creative projects, share your views, and help influence national change. 💜
More Info: www.staf.scot/Listing/Cate...
Youth Justice Voices
Youth Justice Voices is a Scotland-wide participation project, jointly run by Staf and the CYCJ and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, which seeks to amplify the voices of care and ju...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Youth Justice Voices is looking for 16–25-year-olds with care or justice experience in Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Take part in creative projects, share your views, and help influence national change. 💜
More Info: www.staf.scot/Listing/Cate...
Take part in creative projects, share your views, and help influence national change. 💜
More Info: www.staf.scot/Listing/Cate...
Are you care experienced, or supporting someone who is?
We’re inviting young people to share what friendship means to them through art, writing, music or photography. Every entry gets a £15 voucher + a place in our online exhibition. www.staf.scot/blog/what-fr...
We’re inviting young people to share what friendship means to them through art, writing, music or photography. Every entry gets a £15 voucher + a place in our online exhibition. www.staf.scot/blog/what-fr...
Tell us what friendship means to you
Enter our art and writing competition on the theme of friendship and care experience.
www.staf.scot
September 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Are you care experienced, or supporting someone who is?
We’re inviting young people to share what friendship means to them through art, writing, music or photography. Every entry gets a £15 voucher + a place in our online exhibition. www.staf.scot/blog/what-fr...
We’re inviting young people to share what friendship means to them through art, writing, music or photography. Every entry gets a £15 voucher + a place in our online exhibition. www.staf.scot/blog/what-fr...
🗣️Tell us what friendship means to you
👂We want to hear from you, in the form of painting or drawing, poetry or short story, photography or music, whatever you have to say about friendship and care experience.
💸Each entrant will receive a £15 voucher.
buff.ly/N9qBX0L
👂We want to hear from you, in the form of painting or drawing, poetry or short story, photography or music, whatever you have to say about friendship and care experience.
💸Each entrant will receive a £15 voucher.
buff.ly/N9qBX0L
September 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🗣️Tell us what friendship means to you
👂We want to hear from you, in the form of painting or drawing, poetry or short story, photography or music, whatever you have to say about friendship and care experience.
💸Each entrant will receive a £15 voucher.
buff.ly/N9qBX0L
👂We want to hear from you, in the form of painting or drawing, poetry or short story, photography or music, whatever you have to say about friendship and care experience.
💸Each entrant will receive a £15 voucher.
buff.ly/N9qBX0L
📣Final call for submissions
🗣️Want to share good practice, an innovative project or new research?
📝We are taking submissions to be part of our national conference programme this November
⏰Our deadline is this Friday 29 August at 5pm
🔗 buff.ly/CuQtwIP
🗣️Want to share good practice, an innovative project or new research?
📝We are taking submissions to be part of our national conference programme this November
⏰Our deadline is this Friday 29 August at 5pm
🔗 buff.ly/CuQtwIP
buff.ly
August 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
📣Final call for submissions
🗣️Want to share good practice, an innovative project or new research?
📝We are taking submissions to be part of our national conference programme this November
⏰Our deadline is this Friday 29 August at 5pm
🔗 buff.ly/CuQtwIP
🗣️Want to share good practice, an innovative project or new research?
📝We are taking submissions to be part of our national conference programme this November
⏰Our deadline is this Friday 29 August at 5pm
🔗 buff.ly/CuQtwIP
There is still time to sign up for the Participation Practitioners’ Forum on 27 Aug, 10–11:30!
This event is for participation workers supporting young people with care & justice experience: connect, share successes & reflect on challenges.
Sign up 👉: www.staf.scot/Event/partic...
This event is for participation workers supporting young people with care & justice experience: connect, share successes & reflect on challenges.
Sign up 👉: www.staf.scot/Event/partic...
August 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There is still time to sign up for the Participation Practitioners’ Forum on 27 Aug, 10–11:30!
This event is for participation workers supporting young people with care & justice experience: connect, share successes & reflect on challenges.
Sign up 👉: www.staf.scot/Event/partic...
This event is for participation workers supporting young people with care & justice experience: connect, share successes & reflect on challenges.
Sign up 👉: www.staf.scot/Event/partic...
Winging It is here! 💜
An animation made by young people with care experience, bringing The Real Toolkit to life with real voices & stories from across Scotland.
Watch, explore guides, and share your own to help others leave care with confidence. youtu.be/v1u8Je20itA?...
An animation made by young people with care experience, bringing The Real Toolkit to life with real voices & stories from across Scotland.
Watch, explore guides, and share your own to help others leave care with confidence. youtu.be/v1u8Je20itA?...
August 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Winging It is here! 💜
An animation made by young people with care experience, bringing The Real Toolkit to life with real voices & stories from across Scotland.
Watch, explore guides, and share your own to help others leave care with confidence. youtu.be/v1u8Je20itA?...
An animation made by young people with care experience, bringing The Real Toolkit to life with real voices & stories from across Scotland.
Watch, explore guides, and share your own to help others leave care with confidence. youtu.be/v1u8Je20itA?...
This month we marked 6 years of Youth Justice Voices with an amazing youth-led event in Glasgow! 💜
Read more in our latest blog: www.staf.scot/Blog/celebra...
Read more in our latest blog: www.staf.scot/Blog/celebra...
Celebrating 6 years of Youth Justice Voices
Supporters and participants gathered to reflect on the history, impact and achievements of Youth Justice Voices so far.
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August 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This month we marked 6 years of Youth Justice Voices with an amazing youth-led event in Glasgow! 💜
Read more in our latest blog: www.staf.scot/Blog/celebra...
Read more in our latest blog: www.staf.scot/Blog/celebra...
Great piece @heraldscotland.bsky.social
re our course w @openuniversity.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com/news/2538105...
Join almost 500 learners on 'Foundations of trauma-informed, relationship-based practice'
#TraumaInformedPractice
#RelationshipBasedPractice
#CareExperience
#Throughcare
#Aftercare
re our course w @openuniversity.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com/news/2538105...
Join almost 500 learners on 'Foundations of trauma-informed, relationship-based practice'
#TraumaInformedPractice
#RelationshipBasedPractice
#CareExperience
#Throughcare
#Aftercare
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Great piece @heraldscotland.bsky.social
re our course w @openuniversity.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com/news/2538105...
Join almost 500 learners on 'Foundations of trauma-informed, relationship-based practice'
#TraumaInformedPractice
#RelationshipBasedPractice
#CareExperience
#Throughcare
#Aftercare
re our course w @openuniversity.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com/news/2538105...
Join almost 500 learners on 'Foundations of trauma-informed, relationship-based practice'
#TraumaInformedPractice
#RelationshipBasedPractice
#CareExperience
#Throughcare
#Aftercare
We had an incredible afternoon in Glasgow celebrating 6 years of Youth Justice Voices 💜
From Glasgow to Polmont to Aberdeen, we heard powerful reflections and achievements from our three amazing steering groups: Youth Just Us, Inside Out, and Youth Justice Voices North East. (1/3)
From Glasgow to Polmont to Aberdeen, we heard powerful reflections and achievements from our three amazing steering groups: Youth Just Us, Inside Out, and Youth Justice Voices North East. (1/3)
August 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
We had an incredible afternoon in Glasgow celebrating 6 years of Youth Justice Voices 💜
From Glasgow to Polmont to Aberdeen, we heard powerful reflections and achievements from our three amazing steering groups: Youth Just Us, Inside Out, and Youth Justice Voices North East. (1/3)
From Glasgow to Polmont to Aberdeen, we heard powerful reflections and achievements from our three amazing steering groups: Youth Just Us, Inside Out, and Youth Justice Voices North East. (1/3)