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Learning and events

We support ongoing learning and the exchange of knowledge and good practice in a wide range of ways and offer an excellent programme of seminars, conferences and events throughout the year.

CELCIS and sector events

Tuesday 26 November 2024

CELCIS Education Forum November 2024

Online, Microsoft Teams

Tackling financial barriers to education for children and young people. For our latest Forum meeting, we're delighted to welcome Kirsty Campbell, Cost of the School Day Voice Participation Officer, and Sara Spencer, Cost of the School Day Project Manager, of Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland. CPAG works to strengthen public commitment to end child poverty, campaigns for evidence-based policy solutions to child poverty and uses welfare rights expertise to maximise family incomes. Sara and Kirsty work on the Cost of the School Day project at CPAG which focuses on tackling financial barriers to education for children from low income households.

Wednesday 27 November 2024

Data linkage – what is it and what can it tell us about children's lives and experiences?

Join us for an insightful session exploring the power of data linkage and how it can enhance our understanding of children's lives. By combining information from diverse sources, data linkage offers a richer, more nuanced perspective on key social issues affecting children and families. In this webinar, we'll not only uncover how this approach can reveal hidden patterns and insights but also tackle the critical challenges and limitations associated with it. We will also hear about current efforts to improve how well Scotland’s data on children’s social care can be linked to other sources.

Monday 2 December 2024

A CELCIS Emerging Insights Webinar: Reforming children’s services: the role of data in transformational change

Transformational change requires attention to resources, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. A key finding from the Children’s Services Reform Research was the need for transformational reform programmes to be underpinned by data and a theory of change. In creating and implementing change, why are these important? How can data play a key role in informing real transformation in children’s services? Join us on Monday 2 December for this free, online webinar where the study’s researchers Micky Anderson and Dr Alex McTier will take us through the findings from the study and explore these questions as we look together at how services and decision-makers are, and can, use and apply information to drive the improvements in outcomes for children and their families.

Wednesday 4 December 2024

Growing Up in Kinship Care

Online, Microsoft Teams

Join us to hear about the findings from the Growing Up in Kinship Care study. The webinar will highlight the key insights gained from examining the data of over 19,000 children and young people who had lived in kinship care over a ten-year period, and what these insights tell us about what is needed to support Scotland’s kinship families.

Courses

Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children

Learn about how to support and respond to the needs of unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children. Our free online training course is open to anyone working in or with an interest in the care and protection needs of unaccompanied and separated children and young people.

Previous events

Recorded webinars from the CELCIS Emerging Insights Series

The CELCIS Emerging Insights Series is a series of recorded webinars in which leaders from the sector share insight, evidence and perspectives about the current critical issues, risks, challenges and learning in child protection.

Watch the Emerging Insights webinars here

CELCIS Webinars – Recordings

CELCIS regularly produces online webinars which discuss many topics concerning the care and protection of children and young people and reflect practice and policy in Scotland and beyond. We have free, captioned recordings of these events that can be downloaded and watched online.

Watch the CELCIS webinar recordings here

SIRCC 2022 Online

The two day event focused on the importance of creating the scaffolding for the workforce in realising The Promise. Together, we explored how this can be achieved in the everyday when caring for children and young people.

Visit the SIRCC 2022 resources here

SIRCC 2021 Online

The two day SIRCC 2021 online event focused on 'the workforce', and you will find here views from a wide range of young people, practitioners, managers, and others who have views about how the workforce can deliver The Promise in residential child care, what makes a great residential care manager and interviews with authors who have written articles for the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care.

visit the SIRCC 2021 conference page here

SIRCC 2020 Online

Take a look at all the content from the first online SIRCC, bringing together everyone with an interest in residential child care in Scotland.

Watch the SIRCC 2020 Online content here

Education Conference 2019 highlights

All the highlights and presentations from the conference which focused on positive educational journeys for children and young people with care experience.

Watch the Education Conference highlights here

SCLC Conference 2019 highlights

A focused look at home, connection and felt security from the Scottish Care Leavers’ Covenant Conference.

Watch the SCLC Conference highlights here

CELCIS Annual Lecture 2019

Watch the recording and presentation from Professor Robbie Gilligan‘s guest lecture on ‘Powering up the potential of care experienced young people: the role of education, work and adult expectations’.

Watch Professor Gilligan's lecture here