CELCIS sets out next chapter for achieving change for children and young people’
A new five-year strategy outlining CELCIS’s strategic approach to responding to the needs of children and young people in need of support, care and protection, has been published (9 June).
Building Brighter Futures Together, reflects the unique role CELCIS, as the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, can continue to play in improving outcomes for children and young people, and families, now and in the future.
It sets out the priorities and the ambitious goals CELCIS will work towards with partners, and how CELCIS intends to achieve these over the next five years to 2030. By working in collaboration with partners in Scotland, the UK and internationally, this strategy will guide the Centre in the right direction for achieving and sustaining the change the organisation wants to see for children and young people, and families, and focuses on where it believes the greatest difference can be made.
Professor Alexis Jay OBE, Chair of CELCIS Strategic Advisory Board and Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde said:
“All children, young people and their families can face challenges in their lives, and the world today exacerbates the continuing necessity to ensure that the rights to support, care and protection are upheld and met. It is in this context that the work of CELCIS remains vital. We exist to challenge and address how this is done and to support improvement in the quality of help that children and young people receive. We do this by facilitating and enabling change, based on best practice.
“Engagement with local, national and international partners holds the key to the possibilities before us all. CELCIS’s work and approach shows us time and again how working together results in real change. This is essential to our delivery on The Promise of Scotland’s Independent Care Review, and to embedding children’s rights, and reshaping support for children, young people and families in need of care and protection. Our new strategy will further take forward this important work for the next five years, continuing CELCIS’s unique contribution now and in the future.”
Claire Burns, Director of CELCIS said:
“At CELCIS, we continue to develop an understanding of both the challenges and solutions to addressing the needs and realising the rights of children and young people in need of care and protection, and the support that families, carers and all those working to help children and families need. Our multi-disciplinary approach and steadfast commitment to generating and sharing evidence-based learning offers real opportunities for transformational change through our work with partners across Scotland and further afield.
“Our new CELCIS strategy has been developed with our colleagues, our consultants with lived experience, our stakeholders, and reflects the important role CELCIS can continue to play in improving outcomes for children, young people and their families. We share the ambitions of practitioners, policy makers, campaigners and many others, while also recognising the resources, skills, investment and leadership required.
“Through this strategic approach and our commitment to collaboration, I know we have the right way forward to enable CELCIS to address existing and new challenges and we welcome the opportunities that lie ahead.”