CELCIS Webinar Recordings

Emerging Insights Series: AI and Children’s Social Care - What are the impacts of using AI transcription tools in social care?

For this webinar, What are the impacts of using AI transcription tools in social care? We explored the experience of using AI tools in note-taking, transcribing…

Emerging Insights Series: AI and Children’s Social Care - Can AI improve decision-making and outcomes when it comes to children's care and protection?

For this webinar we explored the experience what is known about how AI is already being used in decision-making in responding to the care and protection needs…

Emerging Insight Series: AI and Children’s Social Care - What could AI mean for children’s social care?

To begin this new Emerging Insight Series of free, online webinars, we set the scene and considered what AI might mean for children’s social care in particular,…

Change in Residential Child Care in Scotland

In October 2025, CELCIS hosted an online learning conversation exploring how residential child care in Scotland is evolving, drawing on insights from recent…

CELCIS Education Forum June 2025

In June 2025, we hosted a special, extended version of our online meeting, sharing the development of the work of the Virtual School Head Teachers in Scotland,…

A CELCIS Emerging Insight Webinar: Children's Services Reform Research - Leading for Change

Our fourth and final webinar in the 2025 Emerging Insight series focused on 'Leading for Change', with key inputs from CELCIS, sharing what the research tells…

A CELCIS Emerging Insight Webinar: Children's Services Reform Research - Improving transitions for care experienced young people

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…

CELCIS Education Forum February 2025

At the CELCIS Education Forum meeting in February, we were joined by Growing2gether, a Scottish charity supporting young people struggling with mental health,…

A CELCIS Emerging Insights Webinar: Children’s Services Reform Research: Getting It Right For Every Child and its implementation

In this free webinar we heard from CELCIS’s Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist and Jane Scott, Head of Early Help and Protection, co-authors of…

Growing Up in Kinship Care Webinar

In this webinar, we heard about the findings of the Growing Up in Kinship Care study, highlighting the key insights gained from examining the data of over…

A CELCIS Emerging Insights Webinar: Reforming children’s services: the role of data in transformational change

In this free webinar we heard from Micky Anderson, Data Lead at CELCIS and Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, researchers for the…

Data linkage – what is it and what can it tell us about children's lives and experiences?

This insightful, CPD Accredited session explored the power of data linkage and how it can enhance our understanding of children's lives. With presentations from…

Education Forum November 2024

In this Forum meeting, we were delighted to welcome Kirsty Campbell, Cost of the School Day Voice Participation Officer, and Sara Spencer, Cost of the School…

Non-compulsory care for children and young people: What next for Scotland? Learning from research on Section 25

In this webinar, we heard from Dr Robert Porter, Research Lead at CELCIS and Dr Brandi Lee Lough Dennell, Research Associate at CELCIS about the research…

Lifelong links: Building supportive networks for children in care in Scotland.

This webinar explored how Lifelong Links worked during the five-year trial in Scotland (2018-2023) across three local authorities, the learning, challenges and…

Data, child protection and care: what's behind the declining numbers in Scotland?

In this webinar Micky Anderson, CELCIS’s Data Lead, and Dr Alex McTier, Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at CELCIS, presented data from Scotland's child…

Protecting children and the risk of online sexual abuse: what do we need to know?

In this CPD accredited recorded webinar, we discuss the potential impact of online harm in the lives of children and young people across Scotland and the world.…

Education Forum May 2024

At this Education Forum, attendees heard from Emma Mcginlay and Tony Mitchell, from the National Engagement and Partnership Team of Social Security Scotland,…

Supporting the shared responsibility to identify and respond to child criminal exploitation now

In this CPD accredited webinar, we had the opportunity to highlight some of the complex challenges around multi-agency partnerships being able to identify and…

Education Forum February 2024

At this meeting of the Education Forum, hosted by CELCIS, we came together to learn more about a partnership project called the Keeping The Promise Award…

Emerging insights: the connection between poverty, inequality and child protection

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?

In this CPD accredited webinar we heard from Anna Gupta, Professor of Social Work at Royal Holloway University of London, John McKendrick, Professor of Social…

CELCIS Education forum hightlights, September 2023

Education Forum September 2023

This Forum meeting focused on Reflection and Action Learning Sets, an adapted form of Action Learning Sets. Reflection and Action Learning Sets are supportive…

Emerging insights webinar: child protection and domestic abuse

Child Protection and Domestic Abuse: What new research tells us about thinking and doing things differently

In this CPD accredited webinar we heard from Professor Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield, and Professor Kate Morris, University of Sheffield where…

Emerging insights webinar: Hidden in plain sight

Hidden in Plain Sight - Solutions to Protecting Teenagers from Exploitation and Harm

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…

Education Forum April 2023

Student finance and support for care experienced people in higher education. In the first Education Forum meeting of 2023, Stacey Heather-Brash, Funding…

What we heard from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales.

In this CPD accredited recorded webinar, Professor Alexis Jay, Sabah Kaiser and John O’Brien from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and…

Participation Network March 2023

At this Participation Network Event we looked ahead to the future of the Network, and the different ways that to be involved in shaping this future. As always,…

Participation Network December 2022

In this event, we saw presentations from the National Leadership Network, the Inside Out project, Our Hearings, Our Voice, and the Rights Right Now project who…

Education Forum Highlights, October 2022

Education Forum October 2022

Kenny McGhee, Throughcare and Aftercare Lead at CELCIS explores the notions and concepts around 'emerging adulthood', what this might mean for Scotland's care…

Participation Network August 2022

In this event, we saw presentations from the National Leadership Network, the Inside Out project, Our Hearings, Our Voice, and the Rights Right Now project who…

Education Forum June 2022

Pauline Stratford from Skills Development Scotland (SDS), spoke about its recent Career Review, which aims to ensure that career services in Scotland are fit…

Learning from the CRC day of general discussion

Learning from the UNCRC Day of General Discussion

This webinar focused on the themes and recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Day of General Discussion (DGD) about the rights of…

Education Forum March 2022

In this CELCIS Education Forum the theme was using Scotland's Secure Care Pathway and Standards to improve educational outcomes for children and young people.

Participation Network January 2022

This month explored how we can #KeepThePromise across all participation services and projects in the coming year.

Virtual Schools Head Teachers Network December 2021

This webinar discusses the role of Virtual School Head Teachers in Scotland and how they work to improve the educational experiences of care experienced…

CELCIS education forum webinar November 2021

Education Forum November 2021

At our latest meeting we were delighted to welcome Jacqueline Cassidy, Director for Scotland for the the charity Place2Be. Jacqueline explains the mission of…

CELCIS Education Forum Highlights, september 2021

Education Forum September 2021

In this CELCIS Education Forum, Claire O'Hara, Programme Director and Michael Wield, Programme Coordinator at Each and Every Child, discussed framing and how it…

Participation Network August 2021

Inclusion, experience and value in participation. In this Network Event, we explore the theme of inclusion, experience and value in participation projects, and…

CELCIS education forum highlights May 2021

Education Forum May 2021

At our May 2021 Education Forum meeting we were delighted to welcome four Attainment Advisors from Education Scotland who shared information, insights and…

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Emerging Adulthood webinar

The webinar discusses how we can support a better understanding of the development needs of young people and how this theory can support the aspirations of the…

Education Forum – March 2021

Our first Education Forum meeting of 2021 was held online in March with the theme of ‘Widening Participation and Access to Further and Higher Education’. We…

Continuing Care and the Welfare Assessment

CELCIS, the Care Inspectorate and Clan Childlaw recently produced a Practice Note which clarifies the legislative requirements when undertaking a Welfare…

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Using data to improve children's care and protection

With colleagues from partner local authorities, our data team explore the direct impact that changes in provision informed by these data sets have had on…

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Bridging the Digital Divide: If not now, when?

This webinar discussed how important digital access is for all young people, particularly those who are care experienced. The participants consider the various…

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