Change in Residential Child Care in Scotland Webinar

For over twenty years, CELCIS has worked alongside Scotland’s residential child care workforce – listening, learning, and collaborating to build a strong and connected community of care. This has included engagement through events, both in-person and online, and through the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, which brings together the voices of those with care experience, practitioners, students, and academics.

Drawing on what practitioners have shared in recent engagement forums, and insights from the Journal’s articles, authors and themes, CELCIS is creating new learning opportunities for everyone to share practice, support professional development, and strengthen the culture of creating environments that support meaningful change.

Our first learning conversation, Change in Residential Child Care in Scotland, takes place online on Tuesday 28 October. We are delighted to welcome speakers from Glasgow City Council, the Care Inspectorate, Aberlour Children's Charity Sycamore Services, and CELCIS, who will explore how residential child care is changing across Scotland. Attendees will hear:

• How nurture principles are being introduced into Glasgow’s children’s homes
• How the Care Inspectorate is reshaping its inspection approach to put The Promise at the centre
• How Aberlour Children's Charity Sycamore Residential Service is supporting staff teams to grow their skills and confidence through reflective practice

Drawing on content previously published in the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, these stories will show how new models of care, regulatory change, and whole-system approaches are shaping practice, strengthening professional learning, and making a real difference for children, young people, and the adults who support them.

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Additional information about the webinar

No pre-reading is required before joining the webinar. We’ve shared the links to the Journal articles behind the discussions below, for anyone who’d like to explore more before or afterwards.

• How nurturing is our Children’s House? Glasgow’s multiagency model of care
• Keeping The Promise in regulation: Our revised approach to how we regulate and inspect services for children and young people
• Observing high quality children’s residential child care: Reflecting on an implementation approach

Professional development

Attendance at the webinar can be included as part of your Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) with the SSSC.