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Joanne McMeeking 🍄
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Head of Improving Care Experiences, CELCIS, Centre for Excellence, Children’s Care and Protection, University of Strathclyde. Just trying to make a difference. Patiently waiting for a perfect garden and my next creme egg. All views my own, etc etc! 🍄
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📣 Registration for the Youth Justice Conference 2025 is now open!

📆 11 and 12 June, 2025, Stirling Court Hotel

Book your place: lnkd.in/e97DbNcW

Our theme is ‘Childhood, Safeguarding and the Children’s Hearing System’ and keynote speakers are @carlenefirmin.bsky.social and Dr Grace Robinson
March 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Political activist, Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst (c.1910) photographed by Christina Broom, Scottish photographer and UK's first female press photographer #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman facing slight left with hands on her lap wearing a white dress wnd large hat with a wide brim, in a space with others behind her to the left
March 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring blossoming plants with different yellow pink and red flowers on curving stems against a green background
March 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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ICYMI: In this final blog post in a series, Aberlour Sycamore Service's Marc Blyth explores the commitment, leadership, time and energy it takes to implement changes in practice that will last: buff.ly/3PJolta
A graphic to promote the third and final blog in a series hosted by CELCIS, which looks at strengthening practice in Residential Child Care. The blog, by Marc Blyth is entitled: ‘Working together to strengthen practice in residential childcare: Key learning from our change journey’.
January 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Ulla Stina Wikander, Swedish designer who uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures #womensart
Photo of an old typewriter covered in cross stitched material while remaining recognisable in shape, viewed from slightly above on a white surface
January 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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In our latest blog post, Aberlour Sycamore's Marc Blyth discusses how the organisation made some changes in practice sustainable, and how there are working to bring everyone along together to improve support and care for children and young people: buff.ly/4gJ77YX
A graphic to promote a new blog on the CELCIS website. It is entitled: Working together to strengthen practice in residential child care: Laying the groundwork for change, and has been written by Marc Blyth, Lead Learning Co-ordinator at children’s charity Aberlour Sycamore.
January 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Jo Stephen, contemporary UK photographer, ecologist and artist #WomensArt
Colour photograph featuring a wooded area in winter with a tree to the left foreground which has mostly bare branches and a few remaining golden brown leaves, the woods are misty blue, damp and atmospheric
January 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Edinburgh cancels New Year’s Eve street parties and fireworks due to storm warning
Edinburgh cancels New Year’s Eve street parties and fireworks due to storm warning
Hogmanay festival organisers cancel outdoor events with high winds and rain predicted to hit city in coming days Edinburgh’s New Year’s Eve street parties and fireworks display have been cancelled on safety grounds because of storms forecast for the next…
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December 30, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Embroidered art by UK based artist Chloe Giordano #WomensArt
Photo of an embroidery hoop with embroidered pictorial design featuring a badger curled up among a circle of vines, leaves and blue flowers, on a pink cloth background. The top is on a blue surface.
December 29, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh painter known for her local landscapes
Painting of a snowy rural landscape with a barn to the left and a group of bare tall trees to the right, the field has a fence which leads from tbe barn to the trees in a horizontal line across the work, in the centre distance is another tree, all under a grey sky
December 10, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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Thank you to every young person who entered our Christmas card design competition! We were snow-verwhelmed by the amazing designs and it was so difficult to choose only one winner. Well done to Travis for creating the design for 2024🎅 ❄️ 🎄
December 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Dee Nickerson, contemporary artist who explores themes of living in the countryside
Painting of a white woman walking to the left wearing a long warm grey coat, black hat and redish scarf, on a snowy rural landscape, a grey cat walks in front of her and a ginger cat behind, in the background are bare trees and three crows fly in a white sky
December 8, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Still time to sign up!

Join us tomorrow 1:00pm – 2:30pm, to discuss support for Scotland’s kinship families where speakers will share reflections and challenges faced by kinship families, their experience of support and implications for policy and practice: https://buff.ly/4hYbU9K
A graphic to promote CELCIS and the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research’s (SCADR) upcoming free webinar on Wednesday 4 December, from 1:00pm – 2:30pm, on growing up in kinship care in Scotland.
December 3, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Irish stained glass artist Wilhelmina Geddes, Rose Window (1938), St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres, Belgium
Colour photograph featuring a round multicoloured stained glass window against a black background
December 1, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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In this new blog post for #AdoptionWeekScotland, Dr Christine Jones, an adoptive parent and researcher, discusses how her own parenting experience helped to inform a new resource designed to support adoptive families caring for siblings: https://buff.ly/3V9LkRa
A graphic to highlight a blog by Dr Christine Jones which is hosted on the CELCIS website. It describes how Dr Jones was involved in developing a new resource to help support adoptive families caring for brothers and sisters.
November 27, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Welcome to WA on Bluesky as requested by you xx

'Breathing Space'
by Janis Goodman
Etching of the silhouette of a bird seen from below flying in tbe sky surrounded by tree tops
November 24, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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242 best Christmas gifts for 2024: perfect present ideas chosen by the experts
242 best Christmas gifts for 2024: perfect present ideas chosen by the experts
From Monty Don’s top garden tool to Sali Hughes’s perfect lipstick and Yotam Ottolenghi’s favourite ever present, we asked everyone what they wanted – so you don’t have to A selection of little treats for all ages Continue reading...
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November 23, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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Are you interested in the intersection of data and child welfare? Join us at a webinar on 27 November to explore what data linkage is, the critical challenges involved, and what it can tell us about children's lives and experiences: https://buff.ly/3YPlYct
A graphic to promote a webinar provided by CELCIS that looks into Data linkage and what can it tell us about children's lives and experiences.
November 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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Great to see a book review of Free Loaves on Fridays amongst excellent company in this journal.

"A book with such a diversity of written experiences and formats that it’s possibly the closest thing we’ll ever have to an encyclopaedia of the care
experience"

Open access.
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The latest issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care covers topical issues in residential child care across research, policy and practice, locally, nationally and internationally. Read the new issue online now: https://buff.ly/3CBACwo #SJRCC
A graphic to promote the latest issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, published by CELCIS.
November 21, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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NEW: Sign up now for the first of our new CELCIS Emerging Insights Series: Reforming Children’s Services webinars: https://buff.ly/40SYx4z
A graphic to promote a new webinar series from CELCIS based on the findings from the Children's Services Reform Research.
November 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM