Background to the 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 work 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 sessions, and the insights from the Journal’s articles, authors, and themes, together we’ll use this learning to spark discussion and inspire learning opportunities, highlighting and sharing practice to support exceptional care for children and young people.

This learning journey has been shaped by what we’ve heard from the residential child care community. A shared call emerged for the need for regular opportunities to share practice and ideas, access professional development, and create environments that lay the foundations for meaningful change.

We are shaping up learning opportunities which aim to:

• Share: Spotlight good practice and innovative approaches from across the sector.
• Learn: Provide practical insights and reflective spaces to support everyday practice.
• Innovate: Co-create ideas for embedding change and strengthening the culture of care.

About the webinar
Our second learning conversation focuses on workforce wellbeing and trauma-informed approaches in residential child care in Scotland and takes place online on Wednesday 28 October.

We are delighted to introduce our webinar speakers:

• Sydney Guinchard, Research, Evidence and Impact Lead, The Why Not? Trust
• Danny Henderson, Head of Development, Care Visions
• Sarah Parry, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
• Tracey Williams, Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University;

who will explore what it takes to support residential child care staff to work safely, sustainably, and confidently with children and young people affected by trauma.

Our speakers will discuss how:

• work-related stress, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress show up for practitioners in children's homes, and what protects against them
• self-compassion, helpful coping strategies, and supportive; supervision and leadership help staff sustain their wellbeing and stay in the profession; and
• practitioners' experiences of children’s and young people’s behaviour within residential settings shape their working lives, and what needs to change to better support them.

The webinar will draw on two articles published in the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, to show how attending to workforce wellbeing, embedding trauma-informed practice, and having honest conversations about violence in care, are strengthening professional learning and making a real difference for children, young people, and the adults who support them.

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.

• Violence in residential child care: A review of a symposium on practitioner experiences
• Exploring the impact of work-related stress and professional wellbeing with practitioners in homes for children

Attendance at the webinar can also be included as part of your Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) with the SSSC. CELCIS is also a fully accredited CPD provider with the CPD Certification Service (CPD UK).