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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 24 No 2
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Residential care | Author:
Welcome to the autumn 2025 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). It is a very full issue, with the usual mix of lo…
How do we define care? Bridging cultural gaps in developing a universal definition of care experience
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Voices of young people | Author: Maryam, CELCIS Consultant with lived experience of care
In this blog post for Care Experienced Week, Maryam, who was a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience of care involved in considering the Sc…
CELCIS’s response to the Scottish Government consultation on ‘Financial transparency and profit limitation in children's residential care’
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Residential care | Author: Kate MacKinnon
We welcome the opportunity to submit our views in response to the Scottish Government consultation on ‘Financial transparency and profit limi…
Legislating for change for children and the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Children's hearings system, Legislation, Secure care | Author: Debbie Nolan, Kate Mackinnon
Debbie Nolan, Practice Development Advisor at the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), and Kate Mackinnon, Policy Associate…
CELCIS’s response to the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee's Call for Views on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Legislation, Local authority, Permanence, Residential care, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: CELCIS
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from lived experience and profe…
Response from CELCIS to the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee's Call for Views on the Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Education, Health and Wellbeing, Legislation, Residential care, Voices of young people | Author: CELCIS
The Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill intends to minimise the use of restraint and seclusion of children and young people in…
Looking beyond the data at Continuing Care and Aftercare
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Kirsty Doull
The recently released Children’s Social Work Statistics for Scotland includes data about children in care and data on care leavers. Here, Kir…
Education Forum June 2025
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Education | Author: CELCIS
Celebrating ten years of Virtual School Head Teachers in Scotland
CELCIS Strategy 2025-2030
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Child protection, Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Looked after at home, Residential care | Author: CELCIS
Our new CELCIS strategy has been developed with our colleagues, our consultants with lived experience, our stakeholders, and reflects the imp…
CELCIS Strategy 2019-2024
Year: 2019 | Topic:
Child protection, Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Looked after at home, Residential care | Author: CELCIS
In 2019 we published our strategy document, Building Brighter Futures, which set out our direction and purpose over the five years, from 2019…
Virtual School Head Teacher Role Profile
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Education | Author: CELCIS
The VSHT is a senior member of education staff working at a strategic level to improve educational experiences and outcomes for care experien…
The Reflection and Action Learning Forum (RALF) Report
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Residential care | Author: Dr Laura Steckley, Sarah Deeley and Gemma Watson
The RALF project developed reflective work cultures and individual workers’ reflective capacity to impact on the practice of physical restrai…
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 24 No 1
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Residential care | Author:
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 lo…
What has fostering for 20 years taught me about relationships?
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Foster care | Author: Amy
In this blog post for Foster Care Fortnight, Amy , an intensive foster carer who provides care and support to children and young people with …
Why face-to-face support matters to foster carers
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Foster care | Author: Anne Currie
In this blog post for Foster Carer Fortnight 2025, Anne Currie, Assistant Director for Scotland at The Fostering Network, discusses why the t…
Is the picture getting any clearer?
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Local authority, Looked after at home, Residential care | Author: Micky Anderson
CELCIS’s Data Lead, Micky Anderson, considers the latest children’s social work statistics in Scotland, looking at newly available data, and …
How the Scottish Child Interview Model is improving experiences for children and young people
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Child protection, Child sexual exploitation (CSE), Domestic abuse, Neglect, Sexual abuse, Voices of young people | Author: Jennifer Morrison
The Scottish Child Interview Model is a new model of practice for interviewing children who are victims or witnesses of crime, abuse, neglect…
New indicators and new insights. What do the latest child protection statistics tell us?
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Child protection | Author: Dr Alex McTier
In this blog post, Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, takes a closer look at Scotland’s Child Protection 2023-2024…
Family pictures on the wall and a strong sense of self – growing up in kinship care
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Kinship care | Author: CH, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience
In this blog post for Kinship Care Week 2025, CH, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience discusses the importance of maintaining links to …
My port in a storm – the relationship that helped to shape who I am today
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Voices of young people | Author: Beth-Anne McDowall
In this blog post for Care Day 2025, Beth-Anne McDowall, a CELCIS Consultant with lived experience, discusses the power of long-lasting relat…
New information guides to help children, young people and families understand child protection processes
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Child protection, Domestic abuse | Author: Scottish Government
New guides to help children, young people and parents and carers in Scotland to learn about child protection have been published by the Scott…
Response from CELCIS to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the ‘Future of Foster Care’
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Foster care | Author: CELCIS
We strongly support a flexible and evolving approach to foster care, which will ensure that all children get the safety, security and love th…
Response by CELCIS to the Scottish Government’s consultation on developing a universal definition of ‘care experience’
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Legislation, Voices of young people | Author: CELCIS
Our response is underpinned by research evidence, practice experience, and extensive insight and intelligence from people with lived experien…
Working together to strengthen practice in residential child care: Key learning from our change journey
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Residential care | Author: Marc Blyth
In the final post in this series, Marc Blyth, Lead Learning Co-ordinator at Aberlour Children's Charity Sycamore Residential Service, which p…
Working together to strengthen practice in residential child care: The power of observation, reflection and feedback
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Residential care | Author: Marc Blyth
In the second in this series of blogs posts Marc Blyth, Lead Learning Co-Ordinator at children’s charity Aberlour Sycamore, which provides re…
Working together to strengthen practice in residential child care: Laying the groundwork for change
Year: 2025 | Topic:
Residential care | Author: Marc Blyth
Marc Blyth, Lead Learning Co-Ordinator at children’s charity Aberlour Sycamore, which provides residential child care across Scotland, discus…
National framework established to monitor Scotland’s progress on children’s social care
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Adoption, Child protection, Children's hearings system, Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Legislation, Looked after at home, Permanence, Residential care, Secure care, Throughcare and aftercare, Brothers and sisters | Author: The Promise Scotland
Aimed at building an understanding of how Scotland is doing in its progress towards keeping The Promise of the Independent Care Review, the F…
Whose experiences are we relying on to explain what the reality of adoption feels like for adoptees?
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Adoption, Voices of young people | Author: Dr Polly Cowan
In this blog post, Dr Polly Cowan, a Practice Manager at Scottish Adoption and Fostering, explains how the organisation’s Young Ambassadors d…
Developing a new resource to help support adoptive families caring for brothers and sisters
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Adoption, Brothers and sisters | Author: Dr Christine Jones
In this blog post, Dr Christine Jones, an adoptive parent and researcher who worked to ensure the rights of care experienced brothers and sis…
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 23 No 2
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Residential care | Author:
Welcome to the autumn 2024 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). We introduce this issue by saying a big ‘thank yo…
Taking action to improve the collection of statistics about disabled children in Scotland
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Disability | Author: Dr Alex McTier
In this blog post, Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, explains what’s behind a new project to help better understa…
Challenging the narrative: How a new media toolkit is helping tell the stories of care
Year: | Topic:
Voices of young people | Author: Sophia Alexandra Hall
Sophia Alexandra Hall is deputy digital editor at the Big Issue and the author of the Media Toolkit for Journalists and Care Experienced Peop…
From isolation to belonging - from surviving to thriving, through connection and community
Year: | Topic:
Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Melody
In this blog post for Care Experience Week 2024, Melody*, a consultant with lived experience at CELCIS offers her thoughts on this year’s the…
New research highlights the need for increased support for Scotland’s kinship families
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Kinship care | Author: CELCIS and SCADR
A new report – Growing Up in Kinship Care – published by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection based at the U…
CELCIS’s response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on ‘Moving On’ from Care into Adulthood
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Throughcare and aftercare | Author: CELCIS
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Government’s consultation exercise seeking examples of good practice and solutions to issues challenging…
Non-compulsory care for children and young people in Scotland: Learning from experiences of Section 25
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Corporate parenting, Legislation, Local authority | Author: CELCIS
This final report brings together the findings of how Section 25 arrangements in Scotland are experienced from the perspectives of parents, p…
Evaluation of the Lifelong Links trial in Scotland
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Throughcare and aftercare | Author: Dr Robert Porter and Dr Nadine Fowler
An evaluation of the trial commissioned by Family Rights Group (FRG), has been published by CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s …
CELCIS's response to the Scottish Government’s Post-School Education and Skills Reform: Consultation on Legislation
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Education | Author: Linda Peat, Michael Bettencourt
CELCIS's response to the Scottish Government’s Post-School Education and Skills Reform: Consultation on Legislation
CELCIS’s response to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s call for views on National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (Stage 2)
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Legislation | Author: Kate MacKinnon and Katherine Anderson
CELCIS has responded to a Scottish Parliament’s call for views on draft amendments for the National Care Service (NCS) (Scotland) Bill (Stage…
The Reflection and Action Learning Forum Project Update
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Residential care | Author: Laura Steckley, Sarah Deeley and Gemma Watson
The Reflection and Learning Forum (RALF) is a model for supporting the development of reflection at depth. The aim of RALF is to provide a pr…
Accessing Records in Scotland Report
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Legislation, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people | Author: Social Work Scotland
A new report published on 8 July 2024, provides more information on what people with care experience in Scotland have experienced regarding t…
We must uphold Scotland’s children’s rights
Year: | Topic:
Legislation | Author: Sarah Jayne Morris
Sarah Jayne Morris, a Consultant with lived experience at CELCIS, offers her thoughts on the UNCRC being enshrined in law in Scotland and why…
Education Forum May 2024
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Education | Author: CELCIS
At this Education Forum, attendees heard from Emma Mcginlay and Tony Mitchell, from the National Engagement and Partnership Team of Social S…
Fostering love through relationships
Year: | Topic:
Foster care | Author: Seany
In this blog post for Foster Carer Fortnight 2024, Seany, a lived experienced Consultant wanted to share some thoughts, from her experience o…
When data tells us the what but not the why
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Adoption, Corporate parenting, Foster care, Kinship care, Looked after at home, Neglect, Permanence, Residential care | Author: Micky Anderson
CELCIS’s Data Lead, Micky Anderson, takes a look at the latest social work statistics in Scotland for clues about what is happening in the su…
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 23 No 1
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Residential care | Author:
Welcome to the spring 2024 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). It is a very full issue, with the usual mix of lo…
New analysis shows disparity in statistics collected about disabled children in Scotland
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Disability | Author: Dr Alex McTier
This analysis assesses the quality of the disabled children’s statistical data this is reported across Scotland’s children’s services, bringi…
“It’s about…believing our own words”: Bringing together the voices of care experienced people
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Adoption, Corporate parenting, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Local authority, Looked after at home, Residential care, Stigma, Throughcare and aftercare, Voices of young people, Brothers and sisters | Author: Rebekah Pierre
Rebekah Pierre is a care experienced writer, author, social worker, and editor of a new anthology, ‘Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System A…
Learning more about Scotland’s Virtual Schools
Year: | Topic:
Education | Author: Michael Bettencourt and Dr Leanne McIver
For over five years, the role of Virtual School Head Teachers (VSHTs) in Scotland has been evolving and in 2024 is established as a key part …
Survey results on the formal exclusion of care experienced children and young people in Scotland
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Education | Author: Virtual School Head Teachers' Network
The Virtual School Head Teachers' Network, which CELCIS has facilitated since 2019, has published the findings of a survey of local authoriti…
Education Forum February 2024
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Education | Author: CELCIS
At this meeting of the Education Forum we learned about a partnership project called the Keeping The Promise Award Programme, which was origi…
Updated practitioner guidance on kinship care assistance in Scotland
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Kinship care, Legislation | Author: Scottish Government
The Scottish Government along with partners in the Kinship Care Collaborative have produced updated guidance for Part 13 of the Children and …
Navigating social workers’ use of voluntary care arrangements for families in Scotland
Year: | Topic:
Child protection, Corporate parenting | Author: Dr Robert Porter, Dr Brandi Lee Lough Dennell
In this second in a series of blog posts to highlight findings from research on voluntary care arrangements in Scotland, Dr Robert Porter, Re…
Understanding the experiences of children growing up in kinship care in Scotland
Year: | Topic:
Kinship care | Author: Joanna Soraghan
In this blog post to mark Kinship Care Week 2024, Dr Joanna Soraghan, Data Analyst at CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care a…
Virtual schools for care-experienced learners in Scotland: Reflections on an emerging concept in a new context
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Education | Author: Leanna McIver and Michael Bettencourt
This paper offers comparison and reflection on the role and function virtual schools in England and Scotland.
What does new research tell us it will take to keep The Promise?
Year: | Topic:
Active implementation | Author: Dr Heather Ottaway
Dr Heather Ottaway, CELCIS’s Head of Evidence and Innovation, and Principal Investigator of the Children’s Services Reform Research study con…
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 …
A response from CELCIS to the Scottish Government’s consultation on ‘Scottish Social Services Council – proposed register changes'
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Local authority, Residential care | Author: Kate MacKinnon
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Government's consultation on 'Scottish Social Services Council – proposed register changes'. We welcome …
A response from CELCIS to the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee’s inquiry into Additional Support for Learning (ASL)
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Education, Health and Wellbeing, Legislation | Author: Linda O'Neill
CELCIS's response, based on research evidence, practice experience, and feedback from longstanding cross organisational networks, maintains a…
Children's Services Reform Research Concluding report
Year: 2024 | Topic:
Legislation | Author: CELCIS
This concluding report, published in December 2023, brings together key themes and learning from across the study’s findings and determines t…
"Nobody spoke those words to me”: Parental experiences of voluntary care arrangements in Scotland
Year: | Topic:
Child protection, Corporate parenting | Author: Dr Robert Porter, Dr Brandi Lee Lough Dennell
In this first of a series of blog posts to highlight findings from research on voluntary care arrangements in Scotland, Dr Robert Porter, Res…
Children's Services Reform Research study: Scotland’s Children’s Services Landscape: The Views and Experiences of the Children’s Services Workforce
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Legislation | Author: CELCIS
This final part of the Children’s Services Reform Research study explores the experiences of people working to support children, young people…
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 22 No 2
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Residential care | Author:
Welcome to the autumn 2023 issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care. This issue is packed with three long-form, and peer-revie…
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…
A Face on a Wall: How embracing ‘Artivism’ can help young people find their voice
Year: | Topic:
Voices of young people | Author: Michael Archibald
In this blog post for Care Experienced Week, Michael Archibald, a student, artist and activist, discusses being involved in – and being the f…
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…
A response from CELCIS to the Scottish Government’s consultation on A Human Rights Bill for Scotland
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Active implementation, Legislation | Author: Katherine Anderson
This short response draws on the evidence developed for our comprehensive response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the United Na…
Supporting planning for the future of foster care in Scotland
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Foster care | Author: CELCIS
CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, was asked by Scottish Government in 2023 to compile a review of relevan…
Children's Services Reform Research study: Mapping Integration and Outcomes Across Scotland: A Statistical Analysis
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Legislation | Author: CELCIS
For the third strand of the Children's Services Reform Research study, we have looked at whether there is an association between the approach…
Children's Services Reform Research study: Case Studies of Transformational Reform Programmes
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Legislation | Author: CELCIS
For the second strand of the Children's Service Reform Research study, we have developed six cases studies of a range of approaches to transf…
Children Services Reform Research study: Rapid Evidence Review
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Legislation | Author: CELCIS
This Rapid Evidence Review is the first strand of work within the Children’s Services Reform Research study. We gathered, analysed and synthe…
A response from CELCIS to the Scottish Government’s ‘Prescribing the minimum annual number of learning hours: consultation’
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Corporate parenting, Education, Legislation | Author: Michael Bettencourt
A perspective on the potential impact on care experienced learners and the education workforce of a proposal to prescribe the number of learn…
Language matters
Year: | Topic:
Voices of young people | Author: Amy Miskimmin-Logan
Amy Miskimmin-Logan, Participation Development Worker at Our Hearings Our Voice (OHOV) shares the thinking behind the ‘Language Leaders’ proj…
The Promise Scotland reports on Scotland's Children's Hearings System
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Children's hearings system | Author: The Promise Scotland
‘Hearings for Children: The Redesign Report’ has been published by The Promise Scotland following the work of The Hearings System Working Gro…
How Our Hearings Our Voice members worked around COVID-19 restrictions to help children and young people
Year: | Topic:
Voices of young people, COVID | Author: Jennifer Orren
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this could have derailed plans children and young people from Our Hearings, Our Voice (OHOV) had been working…
Education Forum April 2023
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Education | Author: CELCIS
In the first Education Forum meeting of 2023, Stacey Heather-Brash, Funding Awareness and Engagement Manager from Students Awards Agency Scot…
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 22 No 1
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Residential care | Author:
The latest issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care features topical issues, research and practice. Also read the latest Kilbr…
Data poses questions as well as answers, so what questions arise from Scotland's Child Protection 2021-2022 Statistics?
Year: | Topic:
Child protection, Local authority, COVID | Author: Dr Alex McTier
Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, takes a closer look at Scotland’s Child Protection 2021-2022 Statistics to unco…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland: An Analysis of the Administrative Data on 'Looked After' Children
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Kinship care, Looked after at home, Residential care, COVID | Author: Joanna Soraghan, Gillian Raab, Patricio Troncoso, Morag Treanor & Robert Porter
The future of social work in times of change
Year: | Topic:
Corporate parenting, Local authority, Voices of young people | Author: Kathryn Lindsay
Kathryn Lindsay is the Director of Children, Families and Justice Services and Chief Social Work Officer at Angus Council. In this blog post,…
World Social Work Day 2023: How social work teams in East Lothian have promoted staff wellbeing and development
Year: | Topic:
Health and Wellbeing, Local authority | Author: Rogan Higginbottom
On this World Social Work Day, Rogan Higginbottom, a senior workforce learning and development officer at East Lothian Council (ELC), shares …
A response from CELCIS to the Education, Children and Young People Committee’s call for views on the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill, Sections 24 and 25.
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Children's hearings system, Health and Wellbeing, Legislation | Author: Kate MacKinnon
CELCIS has responded to the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee’s call for views on the Children (Care and J…
How developing a love of reading is helping support care experienced children and young people in Dumfries and Galloway
Year: | Topic:
Education | Author: Alison Ferla
Alison Ferla is the Principal Teacher of the Care Experienced Education Team in Dumfries and Galloway, which focuses on improving the educati…
Supporting Roots: the needs of birth parents who have lost a child or children to ‘care’.
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Child protection, Corporate parenting | Author: The Scottish Government
This report provides a broad picture of the needs of birth parents who have lost a child or children to ‘care’, and of the support and servic…
Our Hearings, Our Voice, Our Magazine
Year: | Topic:
Children's hearings system, Voices of young people | Author: Amy Miskimmin-Logan
How young people came up with the idea to produce a magazine for all young people to read and help them understand what’s involved while wait…
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…
Supporting change in residential child care through the use of practice profiles and Active Implementation
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Active implementation, Residential care | Author: Aberlour Sycamore, CELCIS
Aberlour Sycamore alongside CELCIS considered how high-quality residential child-care practice could be supported and implemented.
A legacy: how personal stories are shaped
Year: | Topic:
Voices of young people | Author: Olivia Khan
How legacy work helps children to document their lives: supporting a young person or child who has had to start again in creating their own l…
Childhood Trauma and the Poignance of Spirit
Year: | Topic:
Voices of young people | Author: Annmarie Campbell
In National Storytelling Week 2023, Annmarie Campbell, member of CELCIS's Strategic Advisory Board, explains what inspired her to turn to wri…
Children’s Commissioner for England report on the separation of brothers and sisters in care
Year: 2023 | Topic:
Brothers and sisters | Author: The Children's Commissioner, England
Children’s Commissioner for England has published ‘Siblings in Care’, investigating the number and circumstances of children in care who have…
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…
‘Everybody has a different story’: How compassionate connections are helping to support birth parents
Year: 2022 | Topic:
Adoption, Health and Wellbeing, Stigma | Author: Melanie Thomson
This Adoption Week Scotland, Melanie Thomson, a Social Worker for the Bluebird Project at Scottish Adoption, which offers counselling and sup…
Staying connected: How connections – past and present – can help to write our own futures
Year: 2022 | Topic:
Adoption, Health and Wellbeing, Voices of young people, Brothers and sisters | Author: Tegan, Youth Ambassador at Scottish Adoption and Teen Talk Adoption
This Adoption Week Scotland, Tegan, a Youth Ambassador at Scottish Adoption and Teen Talk Adoption, discusses her experience of reconnecting …
Why the new John Lewis advert matters
Year: | Topic:
Adoption, Foster care, Permanence, Stigma, Voices of young people | Author: Samantha Fiander
It's long been understood now that there is a pressing need to ‘reframe’ care, something being taken forward with the support of the Each and…
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 21 No 2
Year: 2022 | Topic:
Residential care | Author:
This issue’s leading article was specially commissioned to celebrate the SJRCC’s 20th year from James Anglin, Emeritus Professor of Child and…
A response from CELCIS to Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Care Inspectorate’s consultation on the Draft Standards for Bairns’ Hoose
Year: 2022 | Topic:
Child protection, Health and Wellbeing | Author: Ruth Sills, Kate Mackinnon
CELCIS’s response to Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Care Inspectorate’s consultation on the Draft Standards for Bairns’ Hoose (Scott…
Education Forum October 2022
Year: 2022 | Topic:
Education | Author: CELCIS
Emerging adulthood: Exploring the implications for Scotland's care experienced young people and those who care for, and support them
How students are helping to shape University-led and peer support for students with care experience
Year: | Topic:
Corporate parenting, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Voices of young people | Author: Sam Upton
Sam Upton, President of the Strathclyde Care Experienced & Estranged Students Society, shares her thoughts on the support on offer to student…
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