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Learning and events

We support ongoing learning and the exchange of knowledge and good practice in a wide range of ways and offer an excellent programme of seminars, conferences and events throughout the year.

CELCIS and sector events

Thursday 15 January 2026

Emerging Insights Series: AI and Children’s Social Care - What could AI mean for children’s social care?

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.

Thursday 12 February 2026

Emerging Insights Series: AI and Children’s Social Care - What are the impacts of using AI transcription tools in social care?

For this session in our Emerging Insight Series of webinars will we explore the experience of using AI tools in note-taking, transcribing meetings, summarising actions for practice, and the wider impacts this has on care. Join us on 12 February 2026 when we’ll hear about the frontline application of these tools in social care practice and new research into the considerations being made by social workers and local authorities in the UK about how and when to use these.

Tuesday 10 February 2026

Emerging Insight Series: AI and Children's Social Care - Can AI improve decision-making and outcomes when it comes to children's care and protection?

For at least the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly been seen as a possible answer to both how to make public services more efficient and a way to improve decision-making to lead to better outcomes for people needing support.

Courses

Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children

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.

Previous events

Webinars from the CELCIS Emerging Insights Series Focusing on Reforming Children's Services

A year on from the publication of the Children’s Services Reform Research (CSRR) study’s Concluding Report, CELCIS produced a new series of webinars to take a further look at what the study’s findings mean if Scotland is to achieve impactful, meaningful, change and how these themes have been developing.

Watch the CSRR Emerging Insights webinars here

Webinars from the CELCIS Emerging Insights Series Focusing on Child Protection

The CELCIS Emerging Insights Series is a series of recorded webinars in which leaders from the sector share insight, evidence and perspectives about the current critical issues, risks, challenges and learning in child protection.

Watch the Emerging Insights webinars here

CELCIS Webinars – Recordings

CELCIS regularly produces online webinars which discuss many topics concerning the care and protection of children and young people and reflect practice and policy in Scotland and beyond. We have free, captioned recordings of these events that can be downloaded and watched online.

Watch the CELCIS webinar recordings here

SIRCC 2022 Online

The two day event focused on the importance of creating the scaffolding for the workforce in realising The Promise. Together, we explored how this can be achieved in the everyday when caring for children and young people.

Visit the SIRCC 2022 resources here

SIRCC 2021 Online

The two day SIRCC 2021 online event focused on 'the workforce', and you will find here views from a wide range of young people, practitioners, managers, and others who have views about how the workforce can deliver The Promise in residential child care, what makes a great residential care manager and interviews with authors who have written articles for the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care.

visit the SIRCC 2021 conference page here

SIRCC 2020 Online

Take a look at all the content from the first online SIRCC, bringing together everyone with an interest in residential child care in Scotland.

Watch the SIRCC 2020 Online content here

Education Conference 2019 highlights

All the highlights and presentations from the conference which focused on positive educational journeys for children and young people with care experience.

Watch the Education Conference highlights here

SCLC Conference 2019 highlights

A focused look at home, connection and felt security from the Scottish Care Leavers’ Covenant Conference.

Watch the SCLC Conference highlights here

CELCIS Annual Lecture 2019

Watch the recording and presentation from Professor Robbie Gilligan‘s guest lecture on ‘Powering up the potential of care experienced young people: the role of education, work and adult expectations’.

Watch Professor Gilligan's lecture here