CELCIS
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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 webinar, “Change in Residential Child Care in Scotland” which heard from speakers from Glasgow City Council, The Care Inspectorate and Aberlour Children’s Charity Sycamore Services, is available here: buff.ly/ufk6YGr
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The recording of our webinar, “Change in Residential Child Care in Scotland” which heard from speakers from Glasgow City Council, The Care Inspectorate and Aberlour Children’s Charity Sycamore Services, is available here: buff.ly/ufk6YGr
🎨 ✏️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 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🎨 ✏️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
📢 The NEW issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care highlights the experiences, challenges, and opportunities of those working in residential child care. Read it online now: buff.ly/MHXEcBW #SJRCC
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
📢 The NEW issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care highlights the experiences, challenges, and opportunities of those working in residential child care. Read it online now: buff.ly/MHXEcBW #SJRCC
The recording of our webinar on data, child protection and care, in which we discussed what is behind the declining numbers in Scotland, is available here: buff.ly/4dVNJWg
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The recording of our webinar on data, child protection and care, in which we discussed what is behind the declining numbers in Scotland, is available here: buff.ly/4dVNJWg
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Excellent Kilbrandon lecture tonight at university of Strathclyde. This year's lecture from @Professor Carlene Firmin.
Stunning venue and great to catch up with #socialwork and Education colleagues on all things contextual safeguarding and reform.
Stunning venue and great to catch up with #socialwork and Education colleagues on all things contextual safeguarding and reform.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Excellent Kilbrandon lecture tonight at university of Strathclyde. This year's lecture from @Professor Carlene Firmin.
Stunning venue and great to catch up with #socialwork and Education colleagues on all things contextual safeguarding and reform.
Stunning venue and great to catch up with #socialwork and Education colleagues on all things contextual safeguarding and reform.
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 28, 2025 at 3:30 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
📢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 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📢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
The recording of our webinar, “Change in Residential Child Care in Scotland” which heard from speakers from Glasgow City Council, The Care Inspectorate and Aberlour Children’s Charity Sycamore Services, is available here: buff.ly/ufk6YGr
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The recording of our webinar, “Change in Residential Child Care in Scotland” which heard from speakers from Glasgow City Council, The Care Inspectorate and Aberlour Children’s Charity Sycamore Services, is available here: buff.ly/ufk6YGr
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New stats show more young care leavers (18–20) facing or at risk of homelessness: 4,310 → 4,610 (10%+). 600 became homeless immediately after leaving care. “This must be addressed in pathway plans.” Read our response: www.coram.org.uk/news/homeles...
#CareLeaversMonth #EndYouthHomelessness
#CareLeaversMonth #EndYouthHomelessness
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New stats show more young care leavers (18–20) facing or at risk of homelessness: 4,310 → 4,610 (10%+). 600 became homeless immediately after leaving care. “This must be addressed in pathway plans.” Read our response: www.coram.org.uk/news/homeles...
#CareLeaversMonth #EndYouthHomelessness
#CareLeaversMonth #EndYouthHomelessness
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Our researcher Becky Ward was interviewed by the BBC about the financial cliff edge facing care leavers as they turn 18.
She's been working with Step by Step, who are calling for fairer financial support.
Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
She's been working with Step by Step, who are calling for fairer financial support.
Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Our researcher Becky Ward was interviewed by the BBC about the financial cliff edge facing care leavers as they turn 18.
She's been working with Step by Step, who are calling for fairer financial support.
Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
She's been working with Step by Step, who are calling for fairer financial support.
Find out more: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
📢 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 27, 2025 at 3:30 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
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Fully funded places on CYCJ’s Digital Safeguarding in Practice eLearning!
This module helps learners build digital awareness, identify indicators of online sexual abuse and grooming, promote safe use of digital technologies and respond to harmful online behaviour.
Book now: buff.ly/QEdLAuv
This module helps learners build digital awareness, identify indicators of online sexual abuse and grooming, promote safe use of digital technologies and respond to harmful online behaviour.
Book now: buff.ly/QEdLAuv
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fully funded places on CYCJ’s Digital Safeguarding in Practice eLearning!
This module helps learners build digital awareness, identify indicators of online sexual abuse and grooming, promote safe use of digital technologies and respond to harmful online behaviour.
Book now: buff.ly/QEdLAuv
This module helps learners build digital awareness, identify indicators of online sexual abuse and grooming, promote safe use of digital technologies and respond to harmful online behaviour.
Book now: buff.ly/QEdLAuv
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👏 A huge thank you to Emeritus Professor Julie Selwyn for presenting at our Rees lunchtime webinar on Tuesday, 'Family Routes – Growing Up in Adoptive and Special Guardianship Families'.
🔗 You can now watch Julie’s recorded session and access the slides here: shorturl.at/tOXrV
🔗 You can now watch Julie’s recorded session and access the slides here: shorturl.at/tOXrV
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
👏 A huge thank you to Emeritus Professor Julie Selwyn for presenting at our Rees lunchtime webinar on Tuesday, 'Family Routes – Growing Up in Adoptive and Special Guardianship Families'.
🔗 You can now watch Julie’s recorded session and access the slides here: shorturl.at/tOXrV
🔗 You can now watch Julie’s recorded session and access the slides here: shorturl.at/tOXrV
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/jJQCTwz #fostercare
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 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/jJQCTwz #fostercare
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NEW BLOG by Dep Chief Exec Donna Molloy📝Ahead of the publication of the latest parenting Practice Guide next week, we're at #NCASC25 spotlighting evidence-based #ParentingSupport & how to translate this into practice on the ground: foundations.org.uk/supporting-l...
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
NEW BLOG by Dep Chief Exec Donna Molloy📝Ahead of the publication of the latest parenting Practice Guide next week, we're at #NCASC25 spotlighting evidence-based #ParentingSupport & how to translate this into practice on the ground: foundations.org.uk/supporting-l...
The final webinar in a series exploring themes from the Children's Services Reform Research, which looks at what the findings tell us about leadership in supporting transformational change in services for children, young people and their families and carers, is available here: buff.ly/DZO5H5m
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The final webinar in a series exploring themes from the Children's Services Reform Research, which looks at what the findings tell us about leadership in supporting transformational change in services for children, young people and their families and carers, is available here: buff.ly/DZO5H5m
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📣 We welcome this bold action by the Chancellor today to scrap the two-child limit. It will keep 20,000 children in Scotland out of poverty.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📣 We welcome this bold action by the Chancellor today to scrap the two-child limit. It will keep 20,000 children in Scotland out of poverty.
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'This is a much-needed fresh start in our country's efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on' - our comment to the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two-child benefit cap to be scrapped from next year
The policy, introduced under the Tories, means parents can only claim universal credit for their first two children.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
'This is a much-needed fresh start in our country's efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on' - our comment to the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The UK Government will scrap the two-child cap on benefits from April next year, the chancellor has confirmed. www.holyrood.com/news/view,uk...
UK Government scraps two-child limit amid tax-raising budget
The Scottish Government will receive an additional £820m over the period of the spending review
www.holyrood.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The UK Government will scrap the two-child cap on benefits from April next year, the chancellor has confirmed. www.holyrood.com/news/view,uk...
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We break down exactly how the end to the two-child limit on benefits will impact low-income households in the UK.
What does the end to the two-child limit mean for you?
www.bigissue.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We break down exactly how the end to the two-child limit on benefits will impact low-income households in the UK.
🎨 ✏️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 26, 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
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Scrapping the two-child limit will be transformational for children.
This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit will be transformational for children.
This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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We welcome the announcement in the UK Budget that the two-child limit is being abolished
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We welcome the announcement in the UK Budget that the two-child limit is being abolished
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 26, 2025 at 12:29 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
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We’re expecting the Child Poverty Strategy any day.
We asked children what they’d like to say to the PM about their hopes and concerns.
Robyn said: 'I’m writing to you since some families are going through something called poverty, which is not okay!'
We asked children what they’d like to say to the PM about their hopes and concerns.
Robyn said: 'I’m writing to you since some families are going through something called poverty, which is not okay!'
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We’re expecting the Child Poverty Strategy any day.
We asked children what they’d like to say to the PM about their hopes and concerns.
Robyn said: 'I’m writing to you since some families are going through something called poverty, which is not okay!'
We asked children what they’d like to say to the PM about their hopes and concerns.
Robyn said: 'I’m writing to you since some families are going through something called poverty, which is not okay!'