What's next? Bringing the residential child care community together in Scotland

 

Online Engagement Session
Wednesday 27 September, 10.00 - 12.30
MS Teams

The residential child care community in Scotland is comprised of a workforce which is inspired, inspiring, and determined to develop and improve for the benefit of children and young people.

In 2023, as we reflect on what children and the workforce tell us they need, against the backdrop of the impact of a global pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the ambitious aims of The Promise of the Independent Care Review, we want to take the opportunity to look at how the residential child care community connects across Scotland.

For over 20 years, the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care (SIRCC) Conference, hosted by CELCIS, has been a staple annual event in the residential community’s calendar in Scotland. Through in-person conferences and, most recently, online events, we have shared pivotal keynote presentations, practical and creative immersive workshops and key networking opportunities.

At our most recent online conference, we heard that there are fundamental questions facing this community:

• What is the role and place of residential child care in Scotland now and the future?
• What does high-quality care look and feel like for children?
• What are the emerging developments in practice to learn from?
• And how do we do this together as a community with all the new ways to connect, share and come together?

The SIRCC conference has always been a place to connect and explore, and two decades on we want to create a new space to consider, imagine and aspire for the workforce and the children and young people we care for.

We can only do this with you.

About the session

We’re inviting you to join with us to explore the possibilities for sharing, connecting and learning within residential child care in Scotland, to imagine what this will take and how it might look. This is for everyone who is a member of the workforce in and around residential child care.

CELCIS will be facilitating spaces for members of this community to talk with and listen to each other, collaborate, and think through the steps we might take together.

In a shared, reflective space, we ask you to join and fully participate in one of four sessions we’re holding in person and online. We hope to identify what the need is now, informed and led by the experience and perspective of the community. This will be a process of community driven change supported by CELCIS.

Please join us to have your say and share our ideas. The sessions will be highly participative, focused on a commitment improvement within residential child care and will need the full engagement of everyone who attends.

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