CELCIS Blog
Our blog is a hub for perspectives and analysis of issues that matter to the lives of children, young people and their families. You will hear from our staff and guest bloggers on many topical issues where they will be reflecting and sharing their policy, practice and research insights..
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Michelle McCue blogs about the 2015 SIRCC conference and its focus on how residential child care is changing.
Vicki Welch blogs on the good and bad of integrating services.
Attend, encourage and enjoy to learn - a blog by Graham Connelly
Jennifer Davidson blogs about her mission to change the world for the better.
Leaving care too early. Kenny McGhee blogs on the problems facing care leavers in Scotland.
In this blog Liz Brabender discusses how CELCIS tackles drift and delay in permanency.
A blog by Linda O'Neill discussing what children had to say in the recent Rees Centre report
Ainsley Hainey blogs about the success of the Massive Open Online Course on Caring for Vulnerable Children.
Lizzie Morton blogs on how Corporate Parents are taking ownership of their new duties.
Kenny McGhee reflects on the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant, six months after the launch.
Kenny McGhee talks about his research into implementing Staying Put for care leavers.
Linda O'Neill tells the story behind the recent education statistics.
Kenny McGhee responds to the recent STV 'Who Cares' programme by exploring the need for genuine and caring relationships and removing barriers for looked after children and young people.
Why permanence matters for looked after children, and why we must share our passion to improve.
Jennifer Davidson blogs about what 2016 has meant for the children’s sector and what the year ahead will bring.
We are now moving towards a professionalism that is defined by passion and commitment expressed through the transparent and responsible use of relationships.
Norma Brown of Falkirk Council describes their Moneywise project and the difference it's making to the lives of care leavers in the area.
We need access to data at both population and individual levels if we're to be successful in improving the attainment of looked after children.
What does relational based practice look like in reality, for a busy statutory team?
Dr Chrissie Gale, international lead for CELCIS, reflects on research which could help shape the drive for better alternative care for children in countries around the world.
Charlie Gracie tells of a new creative writing comp for looked after children
Course moderator Sarah Hume-Anthony gives a snapshot of the interactions on the CELCIS MOOC.
Dr Graham Connelly discusses the use of acronyms when talking about looked after children and children in care.
Active Implementation - what it is, what it is not, and how it could help bring about lasting change to children's services.
How the Student Support Review Group is trying to ensure care experienced students have a fair standard of living.
Introducing issue 12 of REACH, which explores stigma, language, perception and the representation of care and care experience.
Amanda Lawler explains why CELCIS really cares about training and learning.
Stephanie is a Modern Apprentice at CELCIS, and here she talks about landing her first ‘real’ job at only 16.
The importance for children in residential care to develop the ability to navigate friendships with each other.
The difficult issue of self-harm in residential care, exploring the experiences of young people and the support workers need to help.
Gordon Main talks about how commitment in the care system is not enough.
Jillian Ingram ponders how getting a train from A to B might just offer clues to how to meet children’s needs.
Gordon Main continues the conversation on commitment, discussing the emotional investment of foster carers.
Claire Burns introduces the evidence into practice theme of the new issue of our REACH publication.
This blog post explores the findings of a recent briefing from CELCIS about going to university from care.
Joe Rankin of the Nevis Group talks about whether young people should tell future employers that they're care experienced. With video of James Calder.
Dr Chrissie Gale, CELCIS international lead, argues that we need agencies to unite with one voice if we want to uphold children’s rights internationally.
To mark World Social Work Day, Janine Fraser, a Social Work Team Leader for Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership in North East Glasgow, reflects on her profession and the challenges it faces.
This article was first published by TES on the support teachers can offer unaccompanied and separated children.
Guest Joe Rankin of the Nevis Group discusses the need to stamp out stigma for those with care experience.
Iain MacRitchie is the founder of MCR Pathways, a school-based mentoring programme which supports young people in or on the edges of the care system to realise their full potential through education.
Ahead of the Global Implementation Conference, Scotland’s National Clinical Director, Professor Jason Leitch CBE shares some thoughts on his implementation journey, Scotland’s increasing use of change methodologies, and why learning from others makes sense
Joanne McMeeking heads up the Improving Care Experiences team at CELCIS. Here she explains why we need to put physical restraint in residential child care under the spotlight.
Laura Steckley explains how people are coming together to consider how to apply what we know about both experience and theory to address the practice of restraint in residential care.
First published by Citizens Theatre, 30 January 2020.
How the Care Experienced Bursary is making a difference in the lives of care experienced young people.
Bairnshoose Policy and Practice Lead Anna O'Reilly reflects on how far we've come towards securing a Scottish Bairnshoose, and what must still be done to give children the rights they deserve.
Elaine Adams, Learning and Development Lead at Children’s Hearings Improvement Partnership, writes about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Children’s Hearings in Scotland and what this might mean for hearings in the future
Jacqui Dunbar is the Project Lead at Our Hearings, Our Voice, an independent board for children and young people who have experience of the Children’s Hearings System in Scotland and want to help improve it. She works directly with 11 children and young people, 9 who are members of the board and 2 who are advisors for Our Hearings, Our Voice.
Elaine Hamilton, Service Manager at Nether Johnstone House describes how lockdown due to the current emergency health crisis has changed the thinking, outlooks, and actions of both the young people and the team that surround them.
Food and other essential items are something that we have always had available for our young people in the Youth Team, Aberdeen but we were aware that when COVID – 19 hit that we would need to be more creative about how we made sure food was available for young people in a safe and structured way.
Claire Burns, Director of CELCIS (Acting), takes a moment to consider how much we have learned that we didn’t know before the COVID-19; how this emergency has thrown a spotlight on so much of what we already knew and what this means as we work to make change happen to realise The Promise.
Jo Cochrane is the Children’s Services Development and Assurance Team Manager at Dumfries and Galloway Council, since retired. Since 2018, CELCIS has been working alongside local public sector partnerships in Dumfries and Galloway, Falkirk, and East and Midlothian, to develop a Minimum Dataset for use across all 30 of Scotland’s Child Protection Committees.
Claire Burns, Director (Acting), CELCIS – Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection discusses how COVID-19 has exacerbated inequalities in society.
Blog
Year: 2015
Topic: Foster care, Looked after at home, Residential care
Author: staff and guest bloggers
Topic: Foster care, Looked after at home, Residential care
Author: staff and guest bloggers
Welcome to the spring 2025 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). It is a very full issue, with the…
In this blog post for Foster Care Fortnight, Amy , an intensive foster carer who provides care and support to children and young…
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Parliament's call for views on the Education (Scotland) Bill.
CELCIS has responded to a Scottish Government consultation on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance)…
In this blog post for Foster Carer Fortnight 2025, Anne Currie, Assistant Director for Scotland at The Fostering Network,…
CELCIS’s Data Lead, Micky Anderson, considers the latest children’s social work statistics in Scotland, looking at newly…
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from people with…
The Scottish Child Interview Model is a new model of practice for interviewing children who are victims or witnesses of crime,…
Book reviews
Who Cares? Scotland consulted with 87 young people to establish their experiences of living in care, their hopes for life after care and the types of support they would need to achieve this.
The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 has the ability to change the disproportionately poor outcomes of this often forgotten group of young people. It provides new rights and opportunities, ensuring the voices of care experienced children and young people are heard in any discussions or planning which affects their lives.
The views presented here are intended to help corporate parents and others involved in the implementation of the Act to get it right for every care experienced child and young person across Scotland.
Welcome to the spring 2025 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). It is a very full issue, with the usual mix of long-form original research papers, short articles, and book reviews.
In this blog post for Foster Care Fortnight, Amy , an intensive foster carer who provides care and support to children and young people with significant and complex needs, discusses why foster care needs to include a range of skills and approaches needed to care for children who will have varied and individual needs and experiences of trauma.
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Parliament's call for views on the Education (Scotland) Bill.
CELCIS has responded to a Scottish Government consultation on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill.
In this blog post for Foster Carer Fortnight 2025, Anne Currie, Assistant Director for Scotland at The Fostering Network, discusses why the theme of ‘the power of relationships’ means so much to her.
The Scottish Government has today (12 May) launched a new national campaign - Ordinary can be extraordinary for a child in foster care, to encourage more people to consider fostering and ultimately recruit of more foster carers.
We’re looking for an experienced, creative researcher with a track record of supporting research-informed programmes of complex change to join CELCIS as our new Complex Change Research Fellow.
CELCIS’s Data Lead, Micky Anderson, considers the latest children’s social work statistics in Scotland, looking at newly available data, and why additional context is needed to understand what the data can tell us if we’re to look for progress against particular indicators.
The Scottish Government has today (22 April) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland.
Residential child care organisation, Aberlour Sycamore, has been working with CELCIS to consider how high-quality residential child-care practice can be supported and implemented.
Residential child care houses provide children and young people with a safe place to live, either together or without other children, away from their families. These homes are designed to provide care, accommodation, support, and sometimes, education, in nurturing environments, to meet the individual needs of each child.
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from people with lived experience and from professional practice.
Our fourth and final webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on 'Leading for Change', with key inputs from CELCIS, sharing what the research tells us about leadership in the context of reforming services, and leaders from Glasgow City Council and Clackmannashire Council, reflecting on what leaders need in the implementation of transformational change.
The Scottish Child Interview Model is a new model of practice for interviewing children who are victims or witnesses of crime, abuse, neglect or exploitation and is intended to bring about real improvements in children’s experiences that go beyond the interview itself. In this blog post, Jennifer Morrison, Social Work Project Lead on Scotland’s National Joint Investigative Interviewing Team, discusses how social workers have enhanced their knowledge and skills to use this new model in practice.
In this blog post, Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, takes a closer look at Scotland’s Child Protection 2023-2024 Statistics to consider how trends have developed over time and what additional insights are offered from new indicators that have been collected for the first time.
A collaborative initiative by CELCIS which offers support to practitioners working in learning and development roles in residential child care.
The Scottish Government has today (26 March 2024) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland regarding child protection.
In this blog post for Kinship Care Week 2025, CH, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience discusses the importance of maintaining links to family and the important role kinship carers have in keeping families together.
This report sets out the Scottish Government’s second review of the Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy, first published in 2017 and reviewed in 2020. The review sought to identify if the Strategy remained fit for purpose and reflected the policy and operational landscape associated with Scotland’s collaborative efforts to tackle human trafficking and exploitation.
At our February meeting of the Education Forum, we were delighted to welcome Gavin Morgan, Co-CEO, and Diana Whitmore, Founder and Co-CEO, of Growing2gether, a Scottish charity supporting young people struggling with mental health, poverty, and challenging childhood experiences.
Our third webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on transitions and heard key insights from the Dean and Cauvin Trust, The Rock Trust and Thy Why Not? Trust about the experiences of supporting young people as they navigate the support of different services. Attendees learned how consistent relationships, advocacy and tailored support helps to bridge gaps and help create better experiences for young people, and what barriers might still be getting in the way.
At the CELCIS Education Forum meeting in February, we were 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.
In this blog post for Care Day 2025, Beth-Anne McDowall, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience, discusses the power of long-lasting relationships and the feeling of safety these bring.
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government today (20 February).
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government.
Welcome to the spring 2025 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). It is a very full issue, with the usual mix of long-form original research papers, short articles, and book reviews.
In this blog post for Foster Care Fortnight, Amy , an intensive foster carer who provides care and support to children and young people with significant and complex needs, discusses why foster care needs to include a range of skills and approaches needed to care for children who will have varied and individual needs and experiences of trauma.
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Parliament's call for views on the Education (Scotland) Bill.
CELCIS has responded to a Scottish Government consultation on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill.
In this blog post for Foster Carer Fortnight 2025, Anne Currie, Assistant Director for Scotland at The Fostering Network, discusses why the theme of ‘the power of relationships’ means so much to her.
The Scottish Government has today (12 May) launched a new national campaign - Ordinary can be extraordinary for a child in foster care, to encourage more people to consider fostering and ultimately recruit of more foster carers.
We’re looking for an experienced, creative researcher with a track record of supporting research-informed programmes of complex change to join CELCIS as our new Complex Change Research Fellow.
CELCIS’s Data Lead, Micky Anderson, considers the latest children’s social work statistics in Scotland, looking at newly available data, and why additional context is needed to understand what the data can tell us if we’re to look for progress against particular indicators.
The Scottish Government has today (22 April) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland.
Residential child care organisation, Aberlour Sycamore, has been working with CELCIS to consider how high-quality residential child-care practice can be supported and implemented.
Residential child care houses provide children and young people with a safe place to live, either together or without other children, away from their families. These homes are designed to provide care, accommodation, support, and sometimes, education, in nurturing environments, to meet the individual needs of each child.
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from people with lived experience and from professional practice.
Our fourth and final webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on 'Leading for Change', with key inputs from CELCIS, sharing what the research tells us about leadership in the context of reforming services, and leaders from Glasgow City Council and Clackmannashire Council, reflecting on what leaders need in the implementation of transformational change.
The Scottish Child Interview Model is a new model of practice for interviewing children who are victims or witnesses of crime, abuse, neglect or exploitation and is intended to bring about real improvements in children’s experiences that go beyond the interview itself. In this blog post, Jennifer Morrison, Social Work Project Lead on Scotland’s National Joint Investigative Interviewing Team, discusses how social workers have enhanced their knowledge and skills to use this new model in practice.
In this blog post, Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, takes a closer look at Scotland’s Child Protection 2023-2024 Statistics to consider how trends have developed over time and what additional insights are offered from new indicators that have been collected for the first time.
A collaborative initiative by CELCIS which offers support to practitioners working in learning and development roles in residential child care.
The Scottish Government has today (26 March 2024) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland regarding child protection.
In this blog post for Kinship Care Week 2025, CH, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience discusses the importance of maintaining links to family and the important role kinship carers have in keeping families together.
This report sets out the Scottish Government’s second review of the Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy, first published in 2017 and reviewed in 2020. The review sought to identify if the Strategy remained fit for purpose and reflected the policy and operational landscape associated with Scotland’s collaborative efforts to tackle human trafficking and exploitation.
At our February meeting of the Education Forum, we were delighted to welcome Gavin Morgan, Co-CEO, and Diana Whitmore, Founder and Co-CEO, of Growing2gether, a Scottish charity supporting young people struggling with mental health, poverty, and challenging childhood experiences.
Our third webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on transitions and heard key insights from the Dean and Cauvin Trust, The Rock Trust and Thy Why Not? Trust about the experiences of supporting young people as they navigate the support of different services. Attendees learned how consistent relationships, advocacy and tailored support helps to bridge gaps and help create better experiences for young people, and what barriers might still be getting in the way.
At the CELCIS Education Forum meeting in February, we were 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.
In this blog post for Care Day 2025, Beth-Anne McDowall, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience, discusses the power of long-lasting relationships and the feeling of safety these bring.
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government today (20 February).
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government.
Welcome to the spring 2025 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). It is a very full issue, with the usual mix of long-form original research papers, short articles, and book reviews.
In this blog post for Foster Care Fortnight, Amy , an intensive foster carer who provides care and support to children and young people with significant and complex needs, discusses why foster care needs to include a range of skills and approaches needed to care for children who will have varied and individual needs and experiences of trauma.
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Parliament's call for views on the Education (Scotland) Bill.
CELCIS has responded to a Scottish Government consultation on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill.
In this blog post for Foster Carer Fortnight 2025, Anne Currie, Assistant Director for Scotland at The Fostering Network, discusses why the theme of ‘the power of relationships’ means so much to her.
The Scottish Government has today (12 May) launched a new national campaign - Ordinary can be extraordinary for a child in foster care, to encourage more people to consider fostering and ultimately recruit of more foster carers.
We’re looking for an experienced, creative researcher with a track record of supporting research-informed programmes of complex change to join CELCIS as our new Complex Change Research Fellow.
CELCIS’s Data Lead, Micky Anderson, considers the latest children’s social work statistics in Scotland, looking at newly available data, and why additional context is needed to understand what the data can tell us if we’re to look for progress against particular indicators.
The Scottish Government has today (22 April) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland.
Residential child care organisation, Aberlour Sycamore, has been working with CELCIS to consider how high-quality residential child-care practice can be supported and implemented.
Residential child care houses provide children and young people with a safe place to live, either together or without other children, away from their families. These homes are designed to provide care, accommodation, support, and sometimes, education, in nurturing environments, to meet the individual needs of each child.
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from people with lived experience and from professional practice.
Our fourth and final webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on 'Leading for Change', with key inputs from CELCIS, sharing what the research tells us about leadership in the context of reforming services, and leaders from Glasgow City Council and Clackmannashire Council, reflecting on what leaders need in the implementation of transformational change.
The Scottish Child Interview Model is a new model of practice for interviewing children who are victims or witnesses of crime, abuse, neglect or exploitation and is intended to bring about real improvements in children’s experiences that go beyond the interview itself. In this blog post, Jennifer Morrison, Social Work Project Lead on Scotland’s National Joint Investigative Interviewing Team, discusses how social workers have enhanced their knowledge and skills to use this new model in practice.
In this blog post, Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, takes a closer look at Scotland’s Child Protection 2023-2024 Statistics to consider how trends have developed over time and what additional insights are offered from new indicators that have been collected for the first time.
A collaborative initiative by CELCIS which offers support to practitioners working in learning and development roles in residential child care.
The Scottish Government has today (26 March 2024) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland regarding child protection.
In this blog post for Kinship Care Week 2025, CH, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience discusses the importance of maintaining links to family and the important role kinship carers have in keeping families together.
This report sets out the Scottish Government’s second review of the Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy, first published in 2017 and reviewed in 2020. The review sought to identify if the Strategy remained fit for purpose and reflected the policy and operational landscape associated with Scotland’s collaborative efforts to tackle human trafficking and exploitation.
At our February meeting of the Education Forum, we were delighted to welcome Gavin Morgan, Co-CEO, and Diana Whitmore, Founder and Co-CEO, of Growing2gether, a Scottish charity supporting young people struggling with mental health, poverty, and challenging childhood experiences.
Our third webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on transitions and heard key insights from the Dean and Cauvin Trust, The Rock Trust and Thy Why Not? Trust about the experiences of supporting young people as they navigate the support of different services. Attendees learned how consistent relationships, advocacy and tailored support helps to bridge gaps and help create better experiences for young people, and what barriers might still be getting in the way.
At the CELCIS Education Forum meeting in February, we were 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.
In this blog post for Care Day 2025, Beth-Anne McDowall, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience, discusses the power of long-lasting relationships and the feeling of safety these bring.
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government today (20 February).
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government.
Welcome to the spring 2025 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). It is a very full issue, with the usual mix of long-form original research papers, short articles, and book reviews.
In this blog post for Foster Care Fortnight, Amy , an intensive foster carer who provides care and support to children and young people with significant and complex needs, discusses why foster care needs to include a range of skills and approaches needed to care for children who will have varied and individual needs and experiences of trauma.
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Parliament's call for views on the Education (Scotland) Bill.
CELCIS has responded to a Scottish Government consultation on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill.
In this blog post for Foster Carer Fortnight 2025, Anne Currie, Assistant Director for Scotland at The Fostering Network, discusses why the theme of ‘the power of relationships’ means so much to her.
The Scottish Government has today (12 May) launched a new national campaign - Ordinary can be extraordinary for a child in foster care, to encourage more people to consider fostering and ultimately recruit of more foster carers.
We’re looking for an experienced, creative researcher with a track record of supporting research-informed programmes of complex change to join CELCIS as our new Complex Change Research Fellow.
CELCIS’s Data Lead, Micky Anderson, considers the latest children’s social work statistics in Scotland, looking at newly available data, and why additional context is needed to understand what the data can tell us if we’re to look for progress against particular indicators.
The Scottish Government has today (22 April) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland.
Residential child care organisation, Aberlour Sycamore, has been working with CELCIS to consider how high-quality residential child-care practice can be supported and implemented.
Residential child care houses provide children and young people with a safe place to live, either together or without other children, away from their families. These homes are designed to provide care, accommodation, support, and sometimes, education, in nurturing environments, to meet the individual needs of each child.
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from people with lived experience and from professional practice.
Our fourth and final webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on 'Leading for Change', with key inputs from CELCIS, sharing what the research tells us about leadership in the context of reforming services, and leaders from Glasgow City Council and Clackmannashire Council, reflecting on what leaders need in the implementation of transformational change.
The Scottish Child Interview Model is a new model of practice for interviewing children who are victims or witnesses of crime, abuse, neglect or exploitation and is intended to bring about real improvements in children’s experiences that go beyond the interview itself. In this blog post, Jennifer Morrison, Social Work Project Lead on Scotland’s National Joint Investigative Interviewing Team, discusses how social workers have enhanced their knowledge and skills to use this new model in practice.
In this blog post, Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, takes a closer look at Scotland’s Child Protection 2023-2024 Statistics to consider how trends have developed over time and what additional insights are offered from new indicators that have been collected for the first time.
A collaborative initiative by CELCIS which offers support to practitioners working in learning and development roles in residential child care.
The Scottish Government has today (26 March 2024) published the latest official annual Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland regarding child protection.
In this blog post for Kinship Care Week 2025, CH, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience discusses the importance of maintaining links to family and the important role kinship carers have in keeping families together.
This report sets out the Scottish Government’s second review of the Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy, first published in 2017 and reviewed in 2020. The review sought to identify if the Strategy remained fit for purpose and reflected the policy and operational landscape associated with Scotland’s collaborative efforts to tackle human trafficking and exploitation.
At our February meeting of the Education Forum, we were delighted to welcome Gavin Morgan, Co-CEO, and Diana Whitmore, Founder and Co-CEO, of Growing2gether, a Scottish charity supporting young people struggling with mental health, poverty, and challenging childhood experiences.
Our third webinar in the current Emerging Insight series focused on transitions and heard key insights from the Dean and Cauvin Trust, The Rock Trust and Thy Why Not? Trust about the experiences of supporting young people as they navigate the support of different services. Attendees learned how consistent relationships, advocacy and tailored support helps to bridge gaps and help create better experiences for young people, and what barriers might still be getting in the way.
At the CELCIS Education Forum meeting in February, we were 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.
In this blog post for Care Day 2025, Beth-Anne McDowall, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience, discusses the power of long-lasting relationships and the feeling of safety these bring.
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government today (20 February).
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scottish Government.