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Official account. We are CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection, based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. www.celcis.org

The recording of our CPD accredited webinar about data linkage and what it can tell us about children's lives and experiences is available now: buff.ly/cJWptAl
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
WE'RE HIRING: Our new Participation Practice Lead will build on our commitment to and practice in embedding lived experience across our work and supporting others to ensure children, young people are seen, understood and can shape the systems and services that affect their lives: buff.ly/1Z66Ler
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎅🎄If you snow a young artist with care experience in Scotland who feels inspired to create a festive design for CELCIS's 2025 Christmas card competition, ask them to get cracking – they could win a £50 voucher: buff.ly/TZmcHgI
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Do you have a deep appreciation and unwavering commitment to ensuring people with lived experience are heard and understood? Our new Participation Practice Lead role could be for you. Find out more: buff.ly/1Z66Ler
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎨 ✏️Doodle, design and paint your way into this year's CELCIS Christmas card competition! 🎅 We're looking for entries from school-aged children with care experience in Scotland, and with snow time like the present, send us designs by your children and young people today: buff.ly/TZmcHgI
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Our webinar exploring themes from the Children's Services Reform Research study focused on transitions. Catch up on our discussion on improving transitions for care experienced young people with the Dean and Cauvin Trust, The Rock Trust and The Why Not? Trust: buff.ly/yEH1Edj
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Enrol now for our newest eLearning module - Digital Safeguarding in Practice!

Places cost only £30 per learner and can be combined with any of our other modules. Book now 👇

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November 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Do you have a deep appreciation and unwavering commitment to ensuring people with lived experience are heard and understood? Our new Participation Practice Lead role could be for you. Find out more: buff.ly/1Z66Ler
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The recording of our Emerging Insights webinar in which Chair of the IICSA, Professor Alexis Jay and her colleagues from the IICSA explored what the Inquiry's findings mean for child protection is available here: buff.ly/093PW3Y
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🎅 It's time for children to get creative with crayons 🖍️ or playful with pens 🖊️and design this year's CELCIS Christmas card. Competition now open for entries from school-aged children with care experience in Scotland. Find out more: buff.ly/TZmcHgI
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This feature story looks at how East Lothian Council's Families Together programme, established through the Scottish Government's Whole Family Wellbeing Fund and supported by CELCIS, is providing early help for children, young people and their families: buff.ly/4fcb9YL
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Katie is almost 16 and has lived with foster carers on a Permanence Order for seven years. She's just been told that her Order will 'run out' and is worried and confused. Find out about Katie's rights in these new information materials: buff.ly/S9ab9Wg #fostercare
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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We're on BBC Breakfast this Saturday, 8th Nov at 8:30am! 🙌

Hear about the impact of distant moves on young people in care, and the local authorities bucking the trend by keeping more children close to home, from our new Good Practice Report.

Watch live or on BBC iPlayer: https://loom.ly/h58LLyk
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November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Did you know that we have CPD accredited recorded webinars?
In our Emerging Insights webinar recordings, sector leaders share insight about current critical issues and challenges in child protection.
They can be claimed towards your CPD requirement: buff.ly/3M9J07O
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Our podcast allows you to take your social work CPD mobile! 📲

It's informative, easy to engage with, and covers a wide range of issues concerning practice, lived experience, and wider societal topics.

Apple 👉 apple.co/3g7YcE0
Spotify 👉 spoti.fi/2QjefE6
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
WE'RE HIRING: Our new Participation Practice Lead will build on our commitment to and practice in embedding lived experience across our work and supporting others to ensure children, young people are seen, understood and can shape the systems and services that affect their lives: buff.ly/f5tGpPk
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📢There's snow time like the present to start creating for this year's CELCIS Christmas card competition! ☃️ If you know a school-aged young person with care experience who is feeling festive, send us their designs today: buff.ly/TZmcHgI
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Our conference will showcase communal acts of overt political activism and hear from people who have used their role to drive strategic and structural change within their communities and organisations.

FREE to members and ALL social work students
£48 for non-members
#SASWConf25
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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❗️3.8 MILLION children are facing hunger in the UK.

And the biggest driver? The two-child benefit cap.

This cruel policy restricts support for families on a low income to their first 2 kids.
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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There's still time to submit your views to our stakeholder survey! You have until 9 November to let us know what you think we should prioritise in 2026.

To find out more and to respond, click here:
www.cycj.org.uk/news/cycjs-2...
CYCJ's 2025 Stakeholder Survey - Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
We’re excited to launch the 2025 CYCJ Stakeholder Survey! We want to hear your views so we can build a fairer, rights-respecting future for children and young people in conflict with the law. What do…
www.cycj.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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💻 Upcoming Webinar from our colleagues at Education Scotland

In educational settings is positive relationships are key to improving wellbeing, attendance and achievement. 🤝

Don’t miss this upcoming webinar on Relational & restorative practice in action. Book your place today 👉 buff.ly/OUEeo9j
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Listen now to Episode 18 of Creative Conversations. 🎧

Fiona Dyer sits down with CYCJ Associate Cedric Foussard to discuss advancing child centred justice, their recent article for the Law Gazette, and their reflections on the 5th World Congress on Child Centred Justice.

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November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED
As we celebrate the contribution of our Board this #TrusteesWeek we would love to hear from Staf members interested in joining. Can you help achieve our shared vision and improve the lives of young people across Scotland leaving care?
www.staf.scot/board-member...
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: Intimate partner violence and children's human capital

📗 Read Dan Anderberg, Gloria Moroni and Alexander Vickery's new paper on the effects of intimate partner violence on children's cognitive and emotional development here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In this CELCIS Emerging Insights webinar recording, Professors Brigid Featherstone and Kate Morris discuss research into domestic abuse and child protection and what it tells us about thinking and doing things differently: buff.ly/Q3NrXUZ
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM