Upcoming learning and events

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.