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.
A version of this blog post was first published in The Times on 26 July 2019.
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
Introducing a series of blog posts which will consider the use of physical restraint in residential child care from multiple perspectives.
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

Alison Ferla is the Principal Teacher of the Care Experienced Education Team in Dumfries and Galloway, which focuses on…
This report provides a broad picture of the needs of birth parents who have lost a child or children to ‘care’, and of the…
How young people came up with the idea to produce a magazine for all young people to read and help them understand what’s…
Rosie Moore, Participation and Policy Advisor at CELCIS describes leading on a project that has participation at its core from…
As a new report is published by The Why Not? Trust, their Director of Innovation Moira Greentree, discusses the value of finding…
This new report commissioned by the Why Not? Trust, funded by Care Visions, with the work carried out by CELCIS aims to…
In 2017 Aberlour Sycamore alongside CELCIS considered how consistent, high-quality residential child-care practice could be…
When working with children where parts of their behaviour may cause or have caused serious harm, the approach taken should be…

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.

What does the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost-of-living crisis tell us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection?
Join us on 5 October, during Challenge Poverty Week, to explore with three guest speakers what the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis tells us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection.
The University of Strathclyde has published ‘An Appreciative Inquiry into Holding in Residential Child Care: Pilot Report’ by Senior Lecturer Dr Laura Steckley and Lee Hollins from the University’s Department of Social Work and Social Policy, and CELCIS’s Improving Care Experiences Consultant Sarah Deeley and Education Consultant Michael Bettencourt.
The Scottish Government has updated National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland which was published in 2021.
The Scottish Government has published (31 August) an updated the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland.
New research which explores whether there is an association between the type of integration of health and social care services and the outcomes for children, young people, and families in need of support, has been published by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, as part of the Children’s Services Reform Research study.
For the third strand of the Children's Services Reform Research study, we have looked at whether there is an association between the approaches taken towards structural integration over the last decade in Scotland through Health and Social Care Partnerships and outcomes for children and their families
The Scottish Government has today (29 August) announced that, for the first time, there will be a set standard national allowance for foster and kinship carers across Scotland to support the care of children and young people.
The Scottish Government has today (15 August 2023) published the national Education Outcomes for Looked After Children for 2021-22 statistics report. The report uses the current legal definition of ‘Looked After Children’ under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which is broadly defined as children in the care of their local authority.
The second report for a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services has been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
For the second strand of the Children's Service Reform Research study, we have developed six cases studies of a range of approaches to transformational reform programmes in different places.
The Scottish Government has today (26 June) published an update on progress and set out future priorities to support children to maintain connections with their brothers and/or sisters when they are in need of care and protection.
In this webinar we heard from Professor Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield, and Professor Kate Morris, University of Sheffield where we explored new work to inform and advance responses to those who are being harmed and those who harm, to help and support children and their families. 
The first findings of a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services have been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
This Rapid Evidence Review is the first strand of work within the Children’s Services Reform Research study. We gathered, analysed and synthesised evidence primarily from peer-reviewed research papers nationally and internationally
During this Refugee Week and Refugee Festival Scotland 2023, Mohamad, a young person who arrived in Scotland from Syria in 2016 as a child reflects on why supportive relationships are essential to feeling safe and settled in a new place, and the ways in which refugees make a positive impact in their new countries.
A perspective on the potential impact on care experienced learners and the education workforce of a proposal to prescribe the number of learning hours
Amy Miskimmin-Logan, Participation Development Worker at Our Hearings Our Voice (OHOV) shares the thinking behind the ‘Language Leaders’ project which aims to change the language young people experience as they go through the Children’s Hearings System.
A new art exhibition exploring how young refugees rebuild their everyday lives in new countries will be hosted in Glasgow from 17-28 June during Refugee Festival Scotland 2023. This free event is a showcase for a three-year research project, ‘Drawing Together’, led by Professor Ravi KS Kohli from the University of Bedfordshire, working with research centres in Scotland, Finland, and Norway. CELCIS provides research support to the project’s Scottish team.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
In this CPD accredited recorded webinar, we heard from Anne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, which reported in England last November with a national action plan and recommendations to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm.
The Drawing Together project works with groups of young refugees in Scotland, Finland, Norway to examine how they draw and describe their networks and relationships.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has today (25 May) been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this could have derailed plans children and young people from Our Hearings, Our Voice (OHOV) had been working on to provide information on Compulsory Supervision Orders. Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration’s (SCRA) Participation Officer Jennifer Orren, explains how the OHOV board members worked together and kept going to co-design a film to help children and young people.
What does the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost-of-living crisis tell us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection?
Join us on 5 October, during Challenge Poverty Week, to explore with three guest speakers what the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis tells us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection.
The University of Strathclyde has published ‘An Appreciative Inquiry into Holding in Residential Child Care: Pilot Report’ by Senior Lecturer Dr Laura Steckley and Lee Hollins from the University’s Department of Social Work and Social Policy, and CELCIS’s Improving Care Experiences Consultant Sarah Deeley and Education Consultant Michael Bettencourt.
The Scottish Government has updated National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland which was published in 2021.
The Scottish Government has published (31 August) an updated the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland.
New research which explores whether there is an association between the type of integration of health and social care services and the outcomes for children, young people, and families in need of support, has been published by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, as part of the Children’s Services Reform Research study.
For the third strand of the Children's Services Reform Research study, we have looked at whether there is an association between the approaches taken towards structural integration over the last decade in Scotland through Health and Social Care Partnerships and outcomes for children and their families
The Scottish Government has today (29 August) announced that, for the first time, there will be a set standard national allowance for foster and kinship carers across Scotland to support the care of children and young people.
The Scottish Government has today (15 August 2023) published the national Education Outcomes for Looked After Children for 2021-22 statistics report. The report uses the current legal definition of ‘Looked After Children’ under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which is broadly defined as children in the care of their local authority.
The second report for a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services has been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
For the second strand of the Children's Service Reform Research study, we have developed six cases studies of a range of approaches to transformational reform programmes in different places.
The Scottish Government has today (26 June) published an update on progress and set out future priorities to support children to maintain connections with their brothers and/or sisters when they are in need of care and protection.
In this webinar we heard from Professor Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield, and Professor Kate Morris, University of Sheffield where we explored new work to inform and advance responses to those who are being harmed and those who harm, to help and support children and their families. 
The first findings of a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services have been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
This Rapid Evidence Review is the first strand of work within the Children’s Services Reform Research study. We gathered, analysed and synthesised evidence primarily from peer-reviewed research papers nationally and internationally
During this Refugee Week and Refugee Festival Scotland 2023, Mohamad, a young person who arrived in Scotland from Syria in 2016 as a child reflects on why supportive relationships are essential to feeling safe and settled in a new place, and the ways in which refugees make a positive impact in their new countries.
A perspective on the potential impact on care experienced learners and the education workforce of a proposal to prescribe the number of learning hours
Amy Miskimmin-Logan, Participation Development Worker at Our Hearings Our Voice (OHOV) shares the thinking behind the ‘Language Leaders’ project which aims to change the language young people experience as they go through the Children’s Hearings System.
A new art exhibition exploring how young refugees rebuild their everyday lives in new countries will be hosted in Glasgow from 17-28 June during Refugee Festival Scotland 2023. This free event is a showcase for a three-year research project, ‘Drawing Together’, led by Professor Ravi KS Kohli from the University of Bedfordshire, working with research centres in Scotland, Finland, and Norway. CELCIS provides research support to the project’s Scottish team.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
In this CPD accredited recorded webinar, we heard from Anne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, which reported in England last November with a national action plan and recommendations to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm.
The Drawing Together project works with groups of young refugees in Scotland, Finland, Norway to examine how they draw and describe their networks and relationships.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has today (25 May) been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this could have derailed plans children and young people from Our Hearings, Our Voice (OHOV) had been working on to provide information on Compulsory Supervision Orders. Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration’s (SCRA) Participation Officer Jennifer Orren, explains how the OHOV board members worked together and kept going to co-design a film to help children and young people.
What does the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost-of-living crisis tell us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection?
Join us on 5 October, during Challenge Poverty Week, to explore with three guest speakers what the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis tells us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection.
The University of Strathclyde has published ‘An Appreciative Inquiry into Holding in Residential Child Care: Pilot Report’ by Senior Lecturer Dr Laura Steckley and Lee Hollins from the University’s Department of Social Work and Social Policy, and CELCIS’s Improving Care Experiences Consultant Sarah Deeley and Education Consultant Michael Bettencourt.
The Scottish Government has updated National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland which was published in 2021.
The Scottish Government has published (31 August) an updated the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland.
New research which explores whether there is an association between the type of integration of health and social care services and the outcomes for children, young people, and families in need of support, has been published by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, as part of the Children’s Services Reform Research study.
For the third strand of the Children's Services Reform Research study, we have looked at whether there is an association between the approaches taken towards structural integration over the last decade in Scotland through Health and Social Care Partnerships and outcomes for children and their families
The Scottish Government has today (29 August) announced that, for the first time, there will be a set standard national allowance for foster and kinship carers across Scotland to support the care of children and young people.
The Scottish Government has today (15 August 2023) published the national Education Outcomes for Looked After Children for 2021-22 statistics report. The report uses the current legal definition of ‘Looked After Children’ under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which is broadly defined as children in the care of their local authority.
The second report for a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services has been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
For the second strand of the Children's Service Reform Research study, we have developed six cases studies of a range of approaches to transformational reform programmes in different places.
The Scottish Government has today (26 June) published an update on progress and set out future priorities to support children to maintain connections with their brothers and/or sisters when they are in need of care and protection.
In this webinar we heard from Professor Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield, and Professor Kate Morris, University of Sheffield where we explored new work to inform and advance responses to those who are being harmed and those who harm, to help and support children and their families. 
The first findings of a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services have been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
This Rapid Evidence Review is the first strand of work within the Children’s Services Reform Research study. We gathered, analysed and synthesised evidence primarily from peer-reviewed research papers nationally and internationally
During this Refugee Week and Refugee Festival Scotland 2023, Mohamad, a young person who arrived in Scotland from Syria in 2016 as a child reflects on why supportive relationships are essential to feeling safe and settled in a new place, and the ways in which refugees make a positive impact in their new countries.
A perspective on the potential impact on care experienced learners and the education workforce of a proposal to prescribe the number of learning hours
Amy Miskimmin-Logan, Participation Development Worker at Our Hearings Our Voice (OHOV) shares the thinking behind the ‘Language Leaders’ project which aims to change the language young people experience as they go through the Children’s Hearings System.
A new art exhibition exploring how young refugees rebuild their everyday lives in new countries will be hosted in Glasgow from 17-28 June during Refugee Festival Scotland 2023. This free event is a showcase for a three-year research project, ‘Drawing Together’, led by Professor Ravi KS Kohli from the University of Bedfordshire, working with research centres in Scotland, Finland, and Norway. CELCIS provides research support to the project’s Scottish team.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
In this CPD accredited recorded webinar, we heard from Anne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, which reported in England last November with a national action plan and recommendations to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm.
The Drawing Together project works with groups of young refugees in Scotland, Finland, Norway to examine how they draw and describe their networks and relationships.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has today (25 May) been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this could have derailed plans children and young people from Our Hearings, Our Voice (OHOV) had been working on to provide information on Compulsory Supervision Orders. Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration’s (SCRA) Participation Officer Jennifer Orren, explains how the OHOV board members worked together and kept going to co-design a film to help children and young people.
What does the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost-of-living crisis tell us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection?
Join us on 5 October, during Challenge Poverty Week, to explore with three guest speakers what the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis tells us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection.
The University of Strathclyde has published ‘An Appreciative Inquiry into Holding in Residential Child Care: Pilot Report’ by Senior Lecturer Dr Laura Steckley and Lee Hollins from the University’s Department of Social Work and Social Policy, and CELCIS’s Improving Care Experiences Consultant Sarah Deeley and Education Consultant Michael Bettencourt.
The Scottish Government has updated National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland which was published in 2021.
The Scottish Government has published (31 August) an updated the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland.
New research which explores whether there is an association between the type of integration of health and social care services and the outcomes for children, young people, and families in need of support, has been published by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, as part of the Children’s Services Reform Research study.
For the third strand of the Children's Services Reform Research study, we have looked at whether there is an association between the approaches taken towards structural integration over the last decade in Scotland through Health and Social Care Partnerships and outcomes for children and their families
The Scottish Government has today (29 August) announced that, for the first time, there will be a set standard national allowance for foster and kinship carers across Scotland to support the care of children and young people.
The Scottish Government has today (15 August 2023) published the national Education Outcomes for Looked After Children for 2021-22 statistics report. The report uses the current legal definition of ‘Looked After Children’ under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which is broadly defined as children in the care of their local authority.
The second report for a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services has been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
For the second strand of the Children's Service Reform Research study, we have developed six cases studies of a range of approaches to transformational reform programmes in different places.
The Scottish Government has today (26 June) published an update on progress and set out future priorities to support children to maintain connections with their brothers and/or sisters when they are in need of care and protection.
In this webinar we heard from Professor Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield, and Professor Kate Morris, University of Sheffield where we explored new work to inform and advance responses to those who are being harmed and those who harm, to help and support children and their families. 
The first findings of a unique research project into models of reforming children’s services have been published today by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
This Rapid Evidence Review is the first strand of work within the Children’s Services Reform Research study. We gathered, analysed and synthesised evidence primarily from peer-reviewed research papers nationally and internationally
During this Refugee Week and Refugee Festival Scotland 2023, Mohamad, a young person who arrived in Scotland from Syria in 2016 as a child reflects on why supportive relationships are essential to feeling safe and settled in a new place, and the ways in which refugees make a positive impact in their new countries.
A perspective on the potential impact on care experienced learners and the education workforce of a proposal to prescribe the number of learning hours
Amy Miskimmin-Logan, Participation Development Worker at Our Hearings Our Voice (OHOV) shares the thinking behind the ‘Language Leaders’ project which aims to change the language young people experience as they go through the Children’s Hearings System.
A new art exhibition exploring how young refugees rebuild their everyday lives in new countries will be hosted in Glasgow from 17-28 June during Refugee Festival Scotland 2023. This free event is a showcase for a three-year research project, ‘Drawing Together’, led by Professor Ravi KS Kohli from the University of Bedfordshire, working with research centres in Scotland, Finland, and Norway. CELCIS provides research support to the project’s Scottish team.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
In this CPD accredited recorded webinar, we heard from Anne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, which reported in England last November with a national action plan and recommendations to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm.
The Drawing Together project works with groups of young refugees in Scotland, Finland, Norway to examine how they draw and describe their networks and relationships.
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has today (25 May) been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Group, a partnership between Children’s Hearings Scotland, The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and The Promise Scotland.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this could have derailed plans children and young people from Our Hearings, Our Voice (OHOV) had been working on to provide information on Compulsory Supervision Orders. Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration’s (SCRA) Participation Officer Jennifer Orren, explains how the OHOV board members worked together and kept going to co-design a film to help children and young people.