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 will we 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, 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 and comments during the webinar.

Why attend?

By attending this webinar, you will have the opportunity to:

• Gain insights from new UK research on trust, fairness, and public attitudes
• Hear frontline experiences of AI transcription in children’s social care
• Explore the wider impacts of AI tools on care practice
• Join a space for discussion and questions about opportunities, challenges, and what AI could mean for your role.

Who should attend?

This series of webinars is open to anyone with a professional and personal interest in responding to the care and protection needs of children and young people, and supporting their families, in Scotland, the UK and anywhere in the world. this includes:

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

Source material

• 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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