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CELCIS publications
CELCIS’s response to the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee's Call for Views on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from lived experience and professional p…
Response from CELCIS to the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee's Call for Views on the Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill
The Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill intends to minimise the use of restraint and seclusion of children and young people in schools.
Blog
Legislating for change for children and the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024
Debbie Nolan, Practice Development Advisor at the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), and Kate Mackinnon, Policy Associate at CELCI…
Looking beyond the data at Continuing Care and Aftercare
The recently released Children’s Social Work Statistics for Scotland includes data about children in care and data on care leavers. Here, Kirsty Doull…
Spotlight
PACE Quality improvement homepage
Quality Improvement methodology has been proven to enable real and positive change, and was therefore selected by the Scottish Government to be used i…
My journey from care leaver to author
On World Book Day UK, Kirsty Capes, author of the upcoming novel, ‘Careless’, and marketer at HarperCollins, discusses how her childhood experience in…