Webinars from the CELCIS Emerging Insights Series Focusing on Reforming Children's Services
A year on from the publication of the Children’s Services Reform Research study’s Concluding Report, CELCIS has announced a new series of webinars to take a further look at what the study’s findings mean if Scotland is to achieve impactful, meaningful, change and how these themes have been developing.
Upcoming webinars
A CELCIS Emerging Insight Series Webinar: Leading for Change
Scotland has ambitious policy aspirations for children and families, not least in meeting the hopes enshrined in GIRFEC, The Promise of the Independent Care Review and the UNCRC. Realising these ambitions are complex and prolonged processes. The Children’s Services Reform Research study highlighted that effective leadership is a key foundational element of creating optimal conditions for change. An understanding by leaders of what it takes to achieve such change is vital: without this, the time, space, permissions and resources that are required cannot be built.
What do the findings of the research tell us about the role of leadership in supporting transformational change and how leaders need to adapt and approach the unique task of making transformative and effective changes real for children, young people and their families and carers? What support do leaders tell us they need?
Join us on 26 March when Dr Heather Ottaway, the study’s Principal Investigator and CELCIS’s Head of Evidence and Innovation, will look at what the research tells us about leadership the context of reforming services. We will be joined by Mike Burns, Programme Director, Child Poverty and Prevention, Glasgow City Council and Lorraine Sanda MBE, Strategic Director (People), Clackmannanshire Council, who will reflect on what it takes for leaders to implement transformational change; and what support leaders need nationally and locally to achieve this.
There will also be space to take questions from attendees.
