Upcoming learning and events

This webinar will explore the experiences and attitudes towards using AI tools in note taking, meeting transcription and summarising actions in social work practice, as well as the wider impacts these technologies have on care. We’ll hear from frontline experiences and new research into how social workers and local authorities are deciding when and how to use these tools.

In our February Forum event, we explore why care experienced children can face challenges in learning mathematics, and what helps. Drawing on lived experience and case study research with primary-aged learners, the session examines the factors shaping numeracy outcomes and the role of teachers, carers and trusted adults in rebuilding confidence, closing learning gaps and supporting positive re-engagement with learning.

In the first of our 'Sharing the learning from whole family support work' webinars, we explore how services across Scotland are working collaboratively to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families. Guided by the Scottish Government’s Routemap and National Principles of Holistic Whole Family Support, the session highlights the importance of keeping children and families at the centre, improving access, working across whole systems, and strengthening workforce culture. Drawing on learning from Glasgow City HSCP and East Lothian, the webinar shares practical insights into collaborative leadership, planning and decision-making, and what helps effective collaborative working to flourish.

In this webinar, we explore what the use of AI means for ethically grounded, relationship-based social care practice. We’ll consider how AI can sit alongside critical thinking, and examine the implications, challenges and opportunities for social work practice and supervision.

In the second of our 'Sharing the learning from whole family support work' webinars, we explore how services across Scotland are using data and learning to improve support and outcomes for children, young people and their families. Grounded in the Scottish Government’s Routemap and National Principles of Holistic Whole Family Support, the session focuses on understanding needs, access, whole-system working and workforce culture. Bringing together learning from collaborative partnerships in East Lothian and Glasgow, the webinar shares how data has been used to understand local systems, work with communities, build learning systems, and inform practical action to better support children and families.

Learn about how to support and respond to the needs of unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children. Our free online training course is open to anyone working in or with an interest in the care and protection needs of unaccompanied and separated children and young people.