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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

📢 Read the latest issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, online now, to learn more about topical issues, research, and practice: buff.ly/MHXEcBW #SJRCC
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Closing today!
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 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The recording is now available of our Emerging Insights Series webinar which highlighted some of the complex challenges around multi-agency partnerships being able to identify and respond to the criminal exploitation of children: buff.ly/4dQtwCn
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Every child deserves the best start in life. We continue to stand with organisations across the UK urging the government to scrap the two-child limit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📢 CELCIS is looking for a wonder-yule design for our 2025 Christmas card.🎄It's time for your care experienced children and young people to get creative 🎨 and send us their festive designs for the chance for them to win a £50 voucher: buff.ly/TZmcHgI
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Closing tomorrow!
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 services that affect their lives: buff.ly/1Z66Ler
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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
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
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
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
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
📢 CELCIS is looking for a wonder-yule design for our 2025 Christmas card.🎄It's time for your care experienced children and young people to get creative 🎨 and send us their festive designs for the chance for them to win a £50 voucher: buff.ly/TZmcHgI
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 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/f5tGpPk
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 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 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Data is so important in the drive to improve care for our children, young people and families. Version 2 of the Minimum Dataset for Scotland's Child Protection Committees is available here: buff.ly/4fVNjRF
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM