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 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. The first one will be in December 2024. 

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.  

When: Monday, 2 December, 10.30am-12.00pm

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.

Read the report and watch the video here:

• Children’s Services Reform Research study’s Concluding Report
• Video overview of the Children's Services Reform Research

 

Book your place

 

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