Youth Justice Voices

Youth Justice Voices is a Scotland-wide participation project that amplifies the voices of care and justice experienced young people (aged 16-25) to influence national change. If you would like more information on the project, please contact Katrina.

Aberdeen creative workshops August 2025

A new opportunity in Aberdeen this summer for 16-25s with care and justice experience. Read more

Let's Talk

Let's Talk is a stop and search project in partnership with One Community Scotland and the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit. Read more

Youth Just Us Spring Sessions

Join us for some fun and creative drop in sessions this spring Read more

Youth Just Us Creative Drop In Sessions

Join us this October for some creative drop in sessions featuring soap making, tie dye and canvas menchies! Read more

Want to join Youth Just Us?

Check out and download our new FAQ flyer! Read more

Check out the new video from Youth Just Us

We've launched our latest video sharing what we've been up to and how you can get involved. Read more

Digital Dough - A Co-creative Exploration in Digital Storytelling

Youth Justice Voices and Liminal Studios invite care and justice experienced young people to use technology to write their own story. Read more

Youth Just Voices heads north

We are taking the work of Youth Justice Voices out of the central belt and heading north to Aberdeenshire. Join us at the info session to find out more. Read more

Be Part of Youth Just Us

We're looking for new members of Youth Just Us. Find out more about what being involved means and the many opportunities available. Read more

Consultation response: Raising the Age of Referral to the Principal Reporter

Staf's response to the Scottish Government consultation on raising the age a child can be referred to a Children's Hearing to 18. Read more

Teaching young people to be happy

In this blog Innes McGuinness, a Youth Just Us member currently in prison, reflects on the importance of teaching young people to be happy. Read more

Youth Justice Visionaries

Staf Participation Consultant Kevin Lafferty shares his reflections on the work of the Youth Justice Visionaries. Read more

A History of Youth Just Us

Take a look back at the history of 'Youth Just Us' - a group of care and justice experienced young people involved in influencing change through Staf and CYCJ's 'Youth Justice Voices' project. Read more

Latest

Join our team - new roles at Staf

We’re currently recruiting for 3 new roles, each offering a chance to be part of our important work with young people.
Explore the Friendship Anthology

A new collection of poetry, stories, reflections and visual art created by care experienced people across Scotland.
Join us for our new series of online summits

We're running 3 new events on justice, transitions and aftercare.
Series of 3 Summits - Justice, Transitions to Adult Services and Aftercare

Tuesday 30 June, 25 August and 24 November 2026 | 9.30am - 12.30pm | Online [MS Teams]

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.
Support for Care Leavers
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.
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.