A CELCIS Emerging Insights Series: AI and Social Care
What could AI mean for children’s social care?
Whether we always know it or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a now an element of many of the digital and electronic tools many of us use every day in our professional and personal lives. The deliberate use of AI-powered tools and applications has increasingly been seen as a possible answer how to make public services more efficient and whether there are new, additional or alternative ways to providing access to information, support, or services.
What does this mean then for children’s social care in particular? To begin this new Emerging Insight Series of free, online webinars, we’ll be setting the scene and considering what AI might mean for children’s social care in particular, by
- exploring some of the fundamental questions and potential opportunities and challenges of how AI is being used in practice,
and, in responding to the care and protection needs of children and young people, and supporting their families,
- looking at what is beginning to be understood about the influences and impacts of AI in children’s and young people’s lives.
Join us on 15 January for this webinar and discussion with:
- Professor Donald Forrester, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Director of the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) and Deputy Director, of the Centre for Social Care and AI Learning (SCALE), based at Cardiff University and
- Andrew Morley, Senior Practice Development Consultant with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
This session with SCALE and SCIE will provide an opportunity to think through some of the ethical and practice considerations involved including what does this mean for relationship-based practice, how the human inputs into AI affect the outputs, and how AI could complement 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:
- Hear perspectives from leaders in children’s social care research and practice.
- Explore how AI is beginning to shape responses to supporting children, young people, and families.
- 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
- To support this series of webinars, an online resource of video explainers and existing guidance and research has been put together by CELCIS: [xxinsert URL for new webpagexx]
- Find out more about The Centre for Social Care and Artificial Intelligence Learning (SCALE) here
- Find out more about SCIE here
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)
Event details
When: Thursday 15 January
Where: Online, MS Teams
Cost: Free
Time: 10.30am - 12.00pm