This one-day practice seminar will explore the relationship between youth justice and residential child care; consider ways of avoiding youth criminalisation; and discuss techniques for supporting both staff and young people with challenging behaviour.

The event is aimed at:

• Senior staff and managers in residential child care
• Managers and practitioners in the youth justice, children and families, and health sectors
• Police officers
• Designated senior managers in education.

Presentations

Mark Smith, University of Edinburgh - Rethinking care and control in Residential Child Care

Lyn Ross, Grampian Police - Protect and support – The policing challenge

Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank, Who Cares? Scotland - Young people's experiences and perspectives on offending in Residential Child Care

Dan Johnson, Kibble Education and Care Centre - Reducing offending: What can be done in a residential setting?

Workshops:

Gary Peebles, Kibble Education and Care Centre - Circle of courage model and its impact on strength based approaches to working with young people

Amanda Jordan, Kibble Education and Care Centre Specialist Intervention Service - Promoting family work as a protective factor for young people who offend

Stuart Allardyce and Alison Francois, Barnardo's Lighthouse - Working with young people in residential settings who display harmful sexual behaviours

Max Smart and Andy Thorpe, Lothian Villa, East Lothian Council - What needs to be done about these kids? A residential needs-based voice in desistence

For further information, please contact the CELCIS Events Team (celcis.events@strath.ac.uk) or on 0141 950 3683.

Location:

Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, EH12 5PJ

Cost:

Free

A national partnership event, organised by:

•     Youth Justice National Development Team
•     CELCIS: Centre for excellence for looked after children incorporating SIRCC (Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care)