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CELCIS and sector events

Tuesday 11 February 2025

CELCIS Education Forum February 2025

Online, Microsoft Teams

At the CELCIS Education Forum meeting in February, we will be joined by Growing2gether, a Scottish charity supporting young people struggling with mental health, poverty, and challenging childhood experiences. Through innovative and youth-led programmes, evidenced by robust evaluation, Growing2gether aims to increase positive mental health, educational attainment and develop life skills for the children and young people they work with and support.

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Thursday 20 February 2025

A CELCIS Emerging Insights Webinar: Children’s Services Reform Research: Improving transitions for care experienced young people

Online, Microsoft Teams

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. 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. Join us on for our webinar focusing on 'Improving the lives of care experienced young people', where our speakers will shared what we have learned from the Children’s Services Reform Research study about transitions, and how can the components of integration model help to address the gaps and barriers experienced during these transitions?

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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