A CELCIS Emerging Insights Series: Reforming Children's Services

In 2023, a ground-breaking study, published by CELCIS, into the integration of public services to improve understanding of service delivery models and their effectiveness in meeting the needs of children and their families, outlined what it takes to make real, long-standing transformational change.  

Public sector reform will always face a backdrop of continuing and ever-moving challenges in investment, capacity and competing policies and priorities. 

With the incorporation of the UNCRC into Scots Law, The Promise of the Independent Care Review, and the Getting it Right for Every Child approach all in place, Scotland has the intention, ambition and will to improve support for children and their families and outcomes for all children and young people.   

A year on from the publication of the Children's Services Reform Research study's Concluding Report, CELCIS began 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.

Children's Services Reform Research: Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) and its implementation 

The Getting it Right for Every Child approach to supporting all children and young people in Scotland has been in place for two decades. On the 20th anniversary, what does the Children’s Services Reform Research study tell us about the implementation of this approach? What is getting in the way of responding to the needs of children and their families at the right time, with the right support, when they need this? 

Join us on 30 January when we will look at the findings of the research and discuss these questions with CELCIS’s Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist and Jane Scott, Head of Early Help and Protection, co-authors of the study, Katherine Anderson, Policy Implementation Lead at CELCIS and Mark Inglis Head of Children's Health, Care and Justice Services, South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership.  

There will be space for questions.

When: Thursday, 30 January, 11:15am-12.45pm

Where: Online, Microsoft Teams

Why should I attend?

This series will offer attendees the opportunity to:

• Gain insights into the themes and findings of the Children’s Services Reform Research study to understand the significance of these for efforts to reform services.
• Explore where we are now and what it takes to make change happen to provide the essential learning needed for progressing improvements to make transformational and meaningful change in children’s services.

Who should attend?

This webinar is open to everyone with a role and interest in public service reform, improving public services and supporting children, young people and families and public service reform. This includes:

• National and local policy- and decision-makers
• Local service commissioners
• Service managers responsible for shaping and delivering key services
• Practitioners in social care, health, and education
• Parents and carers

We welcome participants from Scotland, the rest of the UK, and beyond.

Pre-reading:

• Children's Services Reform Research study's Concluding Report
• Watch the Children's Services Reform Research explainer video
• Children's Services Reform Research webpage  
• South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership GIRFEC page
• South Ayrshire’s Children and Young People's Services Plan 23-26
• Children in Scotland e-module – An introduction to Getting it right for every child (sign up required)
• TURAS: Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) and Children's Rights learning site (sign-up required)

 

Book your place

The session will be recorded, and resources will be made available on the CELCIS website after the event.