A CELCIS Emerging Insights Series webinar: AI and Children’s Social Care

What are the impacts of using AI transcription tools in social care?

For at least the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly been seen as a possible answer to how to make public services more efficient.

For this session in our Emerging Insight Series of webinars we will explore the experience of using AI tools in note-taking, transcribing meetings, summarising actions for practice, and the wider impacts this has on care.

Join us on 12 February 2026 when we’ll hear about the frontline application of these tools in social care practice and new research into the considerations being made by social workers and local authorities in the UK about how and when to use these.

For this webinar and discussion we will be joined by:

• Lara Groves and Oliver Bruff – Ada Lovelace Institute, who will be sharing insights from the Transcribing Trust project with social care workers
• Dr Jed Meers – Administrative Fairness Lab, University of York, who will tell us about public attitudes to using note-taking technologies, and
• Stephen Morgan – Service Director, Social Work Services, Dumfries and Galloway Council, who will share frontline experiences of using AI transcription tools in their practice.

There will also be space for questions during the webinar.

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This series of webinars is open to anyone with a professional or personal interest in and responsibility to support children and families in Scotland, the UK and anywhere in the world. This includes:

• Practitioners in social care, health, and education
• Service managers responsible for shaping and delivering key services
• National and local policy leads and decision-makers
• Local service commissioners
• Parents and carers
• Students and researchers of social care

 

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Source material

• To support this series of webinars, an online resource of video explainers and existing guidance and research has been put together by CELCIS. You can find it here.
• Find out more about The Transcribing Trust research project here
• Read the research article: What do the public think about AI note-taking tools in social care?

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CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, is a leading improvement, innovation and research centre for children and young people’s support, care and protection, based at the University of Strathclyde.

CELCIS is a fully accredited CPD provider with the CPD Certification Service (CPD UK)

  

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