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Response from CELCIS to the Scottish Government consultation on policy proposals for a Care Leaver Payment

Year: 2024 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Kate MacKinnon, Kirsty Doull and Katherine Anderson

CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Government's consultation on policy proposals far a Care Leaver payment. Our response is underpinned by …

How lived experience of care is helping drive Scotland’s progress towards keeping The Promise

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: David Anderson

David Anderson is the Co-Chair of the Oversight Board, an independent group set up to report on the progress and pace in Scotland as it journ…

Exploring leadership opportunities for the care experienced community

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Barry Black, Gary Brown and Sarah Rogers

For this Care Experienced Week we took some time with Barry Black, member of the National Leadership Network (NLN) steering group, and Gary B…

Authentic co-production – it’s the right thing to do!

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Rosie Moore

Rosie Moore, Participation and Policy Advisor at CELCIS describes leading on a project that has participation at its core from the very begin…

Developing a village to care for the child (and the family)

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Moira Greentree

As a new report is published by The Why Not? Trust, their Director of Innovation Moira Greentree, discusses the value of finding out how many…

Births to care experienced teenagers and women aged 14-24 in Scotland

Year: 2023 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: CELCIS

This new report commissioned by the Why Not? Trust, funded by Care Visions, with the work carried out by CELCIS aims to establish an estimate…

The cost of surviving

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Financial Insecurity | Author: Christine Uwase

At this moment, it feels wrong to address what we’re living through as a cost-of-living crisis, since most people are barely living on what t…

Could a minimum income guarantee help Scotland to keep The Promise?

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Financial Insecurity | Author: Paul Sullivan and Lizzie Thomson

For Challenge Poverty Week 2022, Paul Sullivan, Sector Engagement Lead and Lizzie Thomson, Policy Associate at CELCIS look the impact the cos…

A Wellbeing Economy: Lifting our gaze for those leaving care

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people, Financial Insecurity | Author: Jimmy Paul

For Challenge Poverty Week 2022, Jimmy Paul, Director at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) Scotland, which works to promote a Wellbeing …

Using my creativity and experience to help other young people make informed choices

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Ciara Waugh

Ciara Waugh is an art and design student who has been working with other young people to co-produce national information materials on the rig…

A response from CELCIS to the Scottish Government’s Consultation on a Children’s Care & Justice Bill

Year: 2022 | Topic: Children's hearings system, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Kate Mackinnon, Paul Sullivan and Lizzie Thomson

CELCIS’s response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on a Children’s Care & Justice Bill. Here, we respond to proposals on changes to …

Knowing about continuing care allows for early conversations

Year: | Topic: Foster care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Hazel Rogers

Hazel Rogers is new to fostering and here she discusses her journey to find out more about continuing care to give her the confidence to supp…

A response from CELCIS to the Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee’s call for views to inform their inquiry into low income and debt problems

Year: 2022 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Lizzie Thomson

Our submission focuses on the impact of low income, debt and poverty on care leavers in Scotland. To mitigate this impact, we support the exp…

Briefing: Continuing Care: An exploration of implementation

Year: 2022 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Brandi Lee Lough Dennell, Kenny McGhee, Robert Porter

This briefing highlights the key findings published in CELCIS’s research on the implementation of Continuing Care in Scotland. The briefing d…

Continuing Care: An exploration of implementation

Year: 2022 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Brandi Lee Lough Dennell, Kenny McGhee, Robert Porter

This research aims to identify and better understand what it is that enables and challenges the necessary improvements needed at national and…

Money Matters Access to Child Trust Funds and Financial Support

Year: 2022 | Topic: Adoption, Corporate parenting, Kinship care, Looked after at home, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: CELCIS

This briefing explains how to access Child Trust Funds, and any support that children or young people might need to access or manage their fu…

Developing practice for care records in Scotland

Year: 2022 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Local authority, Permanence, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people, Brothers and sisters | Author: CELCIS

This briefing is for all practitioners involved in writing, managing and/or supporting access to care records.

CELCIS’s response to the National Care Service Consultation

Year: 2021 | Topic: Active implementation, Adoption, Child protection, Child sexual exploitation (CSE), Child trafficking, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Disability, Domestic abuse, Education, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Neglect, Parental alcohol and/or drug use, Parental mental health, Permanence, Residential care, Secure care, Stigma, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people, COVID | Author: CELCIS

Proposals for a National Care Service in Scotland were published for consultation by the Scottish Government in August 2021. CELCIS’s respons…

Genna Allan: You’ve Never Slept in Mine

Year: | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Genna Allan

In this blog, which appeared on the Stellar Quines website, Genna Allan discusses her experiences of being part of You’ve Never Slept in Mine…

Mentoring in practice: An MCR Pathways mentor and young person share their journey together

Year: | Topic: Health and Wellbeing, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Lorna Tilsley and MCR Pathways mentee

On this National Mentoring Day, a young person who is currently a mentee with MCR Pathways and their mentor, Lorna Tilsley, discuss how their…

Walking in Fred’s shoes

Year: | Topic: Active implementation, Foster care, Kinship care, Local authority, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Alison Cowper

Alison Cowper, Service Manager with the Independent Care and Review Team (Children and Families) at Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partn…

CELCIS's commitment to keeping The Promise

Year: 2021 | Topic: Active implementation, Adoption, Child protection, Child sexual exploitation (CSE), Child trafficking, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Disability, Domestic abuse, Education, Emotional abuse, Fabricated or Induced Illness in children, Female Genital Mutilation, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Historical abuse, International, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Neglect, Online safety, Parental alcohol and/or drug use, Parental mental health, Permanence, Physical abuse, Residential care, Secure care, Sexual abuse, Stigma, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: CELCIS

Learn more about CELCIS’s response and our offer to work in collaboration with The Promise and those working to support children, young peopl…

The cost of the implementation gap for young people

Year: 2021 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people, Financial Insecurity | Author: Megan Sutherland

Megan Sutherland is Vice Chair of Who Cares? Scotland. She recently moved home and found it wasn’t easy to register as exempt from paying Cou…

Digital inclusion as a right leaves me hopeful

Year: 2021 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Olivia Khan

Olivia Khan is a Rural Business graduate who worked at the Champions Board in South Ayrshire before moving to Berlin. Olivia stays connected …

The digital divide| The impact on the rights of care leavers in Scotland

Year: 2021 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh, Kenny McGhee and Dr Fern Gillon

Findings from research carried out to understand care leavers’ experiences of digital exclusion before and during the COVID-19 restrictions i…

Therapeutic Parenting in adoption

Year: 2020 | Topic: Adoption, Health and Wellbeing, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Fiona Aitken

For Adoption Week Scotland this year, Fiona Aitken, Director of Adoption UK Scotland, looks at why therapeutic parenting is so important for …

Continuing Care and the Welfare Assessment: Practice Note

Year: 2020 | Topic: Children's hearings system, Foster care, Legislation, Local authority, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Kenny McGhee (CELCIS), Julia Donnelly (Clan Childlaw), Alison Jamieson (Care Inspectorate)

This Practice Note clarifies the legislative requirements when undertaking a Welfare Assessment to support planning for a looked after young …

An evaluation of the We are Citizens! Ensemble care experienced theatre company project

Year: 2020 | Topic: Education, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Dr Louise Hill, Dr Leanne McIver & Dr Brandi Lee Lough Dennell

In 2018 the Citizens Theatre, in partnership with CELCIS, was awarded funding from the Life Changes Trust’s Creative and Active Lives initiat…

Scottish Care Leavers Covenant Alliance ‘Collaborative Voice’ Briefing

Year: 2020 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: SCLC Alliance

A briefing paper on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care leavers and care experienced young people, including key issues and solutions…

Raising the age of referral to the Children’s Reporter – CELCIS Consultation Response

Year: 2020 | Topic: Child sexual exploitation (CSE), Child trafficking, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Emotional abuse, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Neglect, Parental alcohol and/or drug use, Parental mental health, Physical abuse, Secure care, Sexual abuse, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Paul Sullivan, Kate MacKinnon, Rosie Moore, Elaine Adams

CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Government Care and Justice consultation on raising the age of referral to the Children’s Reporter to 18…

Reimagining the way we nurture and stay connected during COVID-19.

Year: 2020 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Health and Wellbeing, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Megan Pirie

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 a…

Experiences of virtual Children’s Hearings: A rapid consultation – Report for Young People

Year: 2020 | Topic: Adoption, Child protection, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Emotional abuse, Foster care, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Permanence, Residential care, Secure care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Robert Porter, Fiona Mitchell, Fern Gillon, Emma Young, Nina Vaswani

The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, which came into force in April 2020, altered several procedural requirements for Children’s Hearings in …

Experiences of virtual Children’s Hearings: A rapid consultation – Report for Parents and carers

Year: 2020 | Topic: Adoption, Child protection, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Emotional abuse, Foster care, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Permanence, Residential care, Secure care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Robert Porter, Fiona Mitchell, Fern Gillon, Emma Young, Nina Vaswani

The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, which came into force in April 2020, altered several procedural requirements for Children’s Hearings in …

Experiences of virtual Children’s Hearings: A rapid consultation report

Year: 2020 | Topic: Adoption, Child protection, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Emotional abuse, Foster care, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Permanence, Residential care, Secure care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Robert Porter, Fiona Mitchell, Fern Gillon, Emma Young, Nina Vaswani

The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020, which came into force in April 2020, altered several procedural requirements for Children’s Hearings in …

Response to the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Skills Committee’s Inquiry into support for vulnerable children during the Coronavirus outbreak’

Year: 2020 | Topic: Education, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Linda O'Neill

The Scottish Parliament's Education and Skills Committee is seeking information around the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on vulnerable c…

The Care Experienced Student Bursary – helping to change lives in East Renfrewshire

Year: 2020 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Foster care, Local authority, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Katie Matthews

How the Care Experienced Bursary is making a difference in the lives of care experienced young people.

Young People Leaving Care - A Four Nations Perspective

Year: 2019 | Topic: Child protection, Corporate parenting, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: The British Academy

The British Academy has undertaken a programme of work that seeks to re-frame debates around childhood in both the public and policy spaces a…

Independent Care Review reports

Year: 2020 | Topic: Active implementation, Adoption, Child protection, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Education, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Neglect, Permanence, Residential care, Stigma, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Independent Care Review

Scotland’s Independent Care Review published its findings and recommendations,

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Scotland - Jersey Participation Project

Year: 2019 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author:

Information from a recent Scottish delegation of care experienced adults who travelled to Jersey to work alongside their counterparts.

Youth Homelessness Prevention Pathway

Year: 2019 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: A Way Home Scotland

This report and recommendations have been developed to improve the housing journey of care leavers in Scotland, and prevent homelessness for …

Children Without Parental Care and Alternative Care: Findings from Research

Year: 2019 | Topic: Foster care, International, Permanence, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Dr Chrissie Gale

This short paper contributes evidence regarding the situation of children without parental care and provision of suitable alternative care in…

Response to Education and Skills Committee call for evidence on the Disclosure (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1

Year: 2019 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Legislation, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Lizzie Morton

Our response provides evidence to support the Committee’s scrutiny of the Disclosure (Scotland) Bill, designed to strengthen and simplify the…

Are care leavers really more likely to go to prison than university?

Year: 2019 | Topic: Education, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Dr Neil Harrison

This blog post by Dr Neil Harrison was first published on the ExChange Wales website on 14 August 2019. ExChange is an all-Wales network that…

Response to Scottish Government’s consultation on improving Temporary Accommodation Standards

Year: 2019 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Scottish Care Leavers Covenant

The Scottish Care Leaver’s Covenant support recommendations to extend the Homeless Persons (Unsuitable Accommodation) (Scotland) Order 2014. …

The Care Leaver Experience: Uganda

Year: 2019 | Topic: International, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: The Uganda Care Leavers Project

The Care Leaver Experience - A Report on Children and Young People’s Experiences in and after Leaving Residential Care in Uganda. A report b…

Young people in the care system deserve help to enter university

Year: 2019 | Topic: Education, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Iain MacRitchie

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…

An Independent Evaluation of Quarriers Coaching for Life

Year: 2019 | Topic: Child protection, Corporate parenting, Health and Wellbeing, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Nadine Fowler, Louise Hill, Charlene Plunkett, Vicki Welch (on the Annotated Bibliography only)

Report from the CELCIS evaluation of Quarriers Coaching for Life, a mentoring programme for care experienced young people.

Principles of Good Transitions - improving post-school transitions

Year: 2019 | Topic: Health and Wellbeing, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Scottish Transitions Forum, ARC Scotland

Providing clear guidance to improve the quality of care and support for young people with additional support needs who are making the transit…

Response to the Scottish Government’s Consultation on the Job Grant

Year: 2019 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Lizzie Morton

The Job Grant is designed to provide assistance to young people to meet the initial costs of starting work. We support its introduction, and …

Inform Briefing - Access to Care Records

Year: 2019 | Topic: Adoption, Child protection, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Emotional abuse, Foster care, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Looked after at home, Permanence, Residential care, Secure care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Lizzie Morton

We have produced a briefing for corporate parents about the rights of care experienced people to access their records, the importancce of rec…

Response to the Financial Education for Young People’s inquiry into children in care and financial education

Year: 2019 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Education, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Lizzie Morton

We contribute to the Westminster APPG’s inquiry into care experienced children and young people’s access to financial education.

Care experience at Christmas

Year: 2018 | Topic: Stigma, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Alastair Redpath

In this blog post, Alastair Redpath, Co-Chair of the Independent Care Review’s Stigma Work Group, considers why Christmas might not be all jo…

Response to Public Petitions Committee Inquiry into mental health support for young people in Scotland

Year: 2018 | Topic: Throughcare and aftercare | Author: CELCIS

Our evidence highlights the need for greater focus on meeting the mental health needs of care experienced children and young people, through …

Consultation response on the Continuing Care (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019

Year: 2018 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Legislation, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Lizzie Morton

Response to the Scottish Governments consultation on the Continuing Care (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019, which will ensure the continued eli…

Inspired Youth - The One Percent

Year: 2018 | Topic: REACH, Stigma, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Inspired Youth

The powerful voices of care experienced young people in this film explore the journey from care to independence through a character they crea…

Prepare for Leaving Care Practice Guidance

Year: 2018 | Topic: Active implementation, International, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Chrissie Gale, Nigel Cantwell, Kenny McGhee, Kate Skinner

The Practice Guidance has been developed with the aim of building knowledge and skills of professionals, carers and other stakeholders respon…

Unconscious bias in the interview room

Year: 2018 | Topic: REACH, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Joe Rankin

Joe Rankin of the Nevis Group talks about whether young people should tell future employers that they're care experienced. With video of Jame…

We can all learn about how young people can thrive in employment

Year: 2018 | Topic: Corporate parenting, REACH, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Tommy McDade

Tommy McDade from Barnardo's Scotland talks about a programme that is supporting young people into the world of work for the first time.

Labels are for clothes not people

Year: 2018 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Local authority, Looked after at home, REACH, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Claire Burns

Introducing issue 12 of REACH, which explores stigma, language, perception and the representation of care and care experience.

Study of independent supported accommodation providers in Scotland

Year: 2018 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Local authority, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: James Frame

We've published a qualitative study to examine independent supported accommodation commissioned by local authorities in Scotland.

Supporting the implementation of Council Tax exemption for Scotland’s care leavers: Good practice note

Year: 2018 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Local authority, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Kenny McGhee

This practice note outlines key considerations and a range of measures for local authorities to take as Corporate Parents to ensure consisten…

Initial evaluation of the ‘Why Not?’ initiative developed by Care Visions

Year: 2018 | Topic: Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Dr Vicki Welch, Kenny McGhee

This short document provides a summary of initial learning from data gathered for an evaluation of the Why Not? initiative. The study was com…

In and beyond the care setting: relationships between young people and care workers: A literature review

Year: 2018 | Topic: Corporate parenting, Health and Wellbeing, Legislation, Local authority, Residential care, SIRCC, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Vicki Welch, Nadine Fowler, Ewan Ross, Richard Withington, Kenny McGhee

The report summarises important learning from academic and other literature about relationships between young people and those caring for the…

Aberlour Life Works Service – a qualitative evaluation

Year: 2018 | Topic: Health and Wellbeing, Looked after at home, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Dr Charlene Plunkett, Dr Vicki Welch

This mixed-methods evaluation describes the person-centred model that has evolved within the life works service.

Care leavers and council tax exemption

Year: 2018 | Topic: Legislation, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Kenny McGhee

A briefing detailing the legislation exempting youg care leavers from paying council tax in Scotland.

Storing up trouble: a postcode lottery of children’s social care

Year: 2018 | Topic: Child protection, Throughcare and aftercare | Author: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children

This report builds on the findings of the APPGC's first inquiry into the state of children’s social care in England and examines if where a c…

Seeing and Shifting the Roots of Opinions - Mapping the Gaps between Expert and Public Understandings of Care Experience and the Care System in Scotland

Year: 2018 | Topic: Adoption, Child protection, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Education, Foster care, Kinship care, Local authority, Looked after at home, Permanence, Residential care, SIRCC, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: The Robertson Trust, Life Changes Trust, CELCIS

This report presents findings from a project sponsored by and conducted in close partnership with The Robertson Trust, Life Changes Trust and…

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