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🚨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?
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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

Do you know any young people with experience of care and justice? We are keen to welcome new faces to Youth Just Us in Glasgow and Youth Justice Voices North East. Email katrina@staf.scot.

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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.

Our 3 steering groups, in Glasgow, Aberdeen and HMPYOI Polmont, have all worked to ensure the rights of young people with care experience are upheld. Their work also helps raise awareness of rights and entitlements, so more young people with care experience can access the support they need.

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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.

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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...

Graphic highlighting a new blog on the Enquire pages. The image is split into white for the bottom half and a rosy pink for the top half. On top sits an image. The image features colooured geometric shapes creating a rectangle. A dotted line winds it's way from a house shape in the bottom right of the rectangular shape up to a pale pink shape in the top right hand corner, indicative of a school. The image includes the Navigate logo - a heart shape made from a map pin and its shadow. Writing reads New blog care experience + education.

A quote from the Navigating care experience and education blog reads "Removing barriers to learning takes more than one service or one organisation's efforts. Navigate is rooted in a whole-community approach, highlighting existing resources and working alongside partner organisation." A photo accompanies the quote featuring a young man with dark hair wearing a navy blue top, smiling at the camera. He is identified as Robert Doyle, Digital Content Officer with Enquire who is author of the blog.

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

WeLearn Learning Portal Launch - 30/09/2025 13:30:00 Tuesday 30 September 2025 | 1.30-4pm | In person at The Ramshorn, Glasgow

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.

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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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💌 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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tell us what friendship means to you Enter our art and writing competition on the theme of friendship and care experience.

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...

Please share with your colleagues and young people you support 💜

🗣️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.

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📣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
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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...

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?...

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.

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...

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Join almost 500 learners on 'Foundations of trauma-informed, relationship-based practice'
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If you're a young person, or work with young people who have experience of the care and justice systems and would like to get involved in Youth Justice Voices - reach out!

Here’s to 6 years of impact and many more to come ✨

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We’re so proud of every project, event, animation and idea these young people have brought to life, helping shape real change in care and justice systems. (2/3)

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)

"These young men are not just offenders; they are individuals with untapped potential."
Steven from the NLN's blog post reflects on recent leadership sessions with our Inside Out group at HMPYOI Polmont.
Read more www.staf.scot/blog/good-le...
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[Change of venue - it will still be in Aberdeen with exact location TBC once you sign up]
📢NEW OPPORTUNITY for 16-25s📢
✍️Join us in Aberdeen this August for a series of creative writing workshops.
No writing skills or experience required - just your ideas!
E: Jack@staf.scot
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We have had a change of venue - it will still be in Aberdeen with the exact location TBC once you sign up

📢NEW OPPORTUNITY for 16-25s📢
✍️Join us in Aberdeen this August for a series of creative writing workshops.
No writing skills or experience required - just your ideas!
Contact Jack@staf.scot for more info. Spaces are limited. Please share.
www.staf.scot/aberdeen-cre...

Thank you to Glasgow’s Depute Lord Provost Cllr Christy Mearns for welcoming our #IFCO2025 delegates to the city at last night’s civic reception. We’re looking forward to day 2 @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social where our keynote speaker is Fatima Whitbread.

We’re excited to meet all our delegates at #IFCO2025 this weekend! Come and visit us in the library just by the tea and coffee ☕️ @fosteringnet.bsky.social @fosteringnet-scot.bsky.social