Subject: Upcoming Staf events

Agendas confirmed for our events taking place over the next couple of months.

We have some great events coming up over the next couple of months. If you support young people with care experience then there's certainly one for you and if you are a Staf member you can join them for free! If you would like to book for more than one focus group, or make a booking for multiple dates you can email bookings@staf.scot and we can take care of the rest! We look forward to seeing you soon.

Care Leavers Into Employment, Education and Training

 Tue 13 Sep, Tue 29 Nov

Agenda for 13 Sep

  • Guarantors for care experienced students. 

  • What are the enablers and roadblocks for successfully supporting young people through college and university?

  • How are training/education providers becoming trauma informed in line with the Promise?

Local Authority Manager's Forum

Wed 14 Sep, Wed 30 Nov

Agenda for 14 Sep

  • Presentation from the Department of Work and Pensions 

  • Views on National Social Work Agency to support the workforce.

  • How are we achieving high quality supervision/ environmental conditions?

  • Is extra capacity now being added to the workforce as a result of the Promise?

Participation Practitioner's Forum

Thu 29 Sep, Thu 1 Nov

Agenda for 29 Sep

What if we reframed the conversation around children and young people’s participation to focus on what adults need to change? What would we talk about: power, money, time, vulnerability, complexity, competition? 


Facilitated by Ruth Kerracher (Staf/CYCJ) and Paul Gorman (Empowered Young People Programme Lead, Scottish Government). 

Care Experienced Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub

Thu 29 Sep

Project Return's The Catalysts are back with their next event for care experienced young people focusing on mental health and wellbeing.


They'll have a range of organisations there on the day to showcase the support and services available as well as a chance to celebrate the work of Project Return with fun activities and of course some great grub! 

Implications of Continuing Care

Tue 25 Oct, Tue 6 Dec

Agenda 25 Oct

  • What still needs to be done to have effective implementation of Continuing Care across the board?

  • What elements do the membership still need help with in terms of practice or policy?

  • What can STAF do to help with this?

  • What success can members report on in this area that could be of use to other members?

Supported Carers, Supported Lodgings

Tue 1 Nov, Tue 13 Dec

Agenda 1 Nov

  • How are we demonstrating trauma informed practice to our SL/SC workforce?

  • Are we able to demonstrate high quality supervision of our supported lodgings providers/ supported carers?

  • With regards Promise’ call for extra capacity to be added to the workforce, is this taking place now with regards to SL/SC?