What does taking a #cashfirst approach to supporting families and young people look like in practice? Find out about North Lanarkshire Council's and CELCIS' work to support children's wellbeing and what this approach told us about power and relationships: buff.ly/txhV6dE

The latest issue of the open access Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care covers topical issues in residential child care, research, policy and practice. Read the new issue online now: buff.ly/kcm4wSq #SJRCC

Join our team! We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Continuing Professional Development and Learning Officer to join our adult’s team. Closing date for applications is 29 June at 08:00. https://ow.ly/AUy150Z7vLC

Transitions from children’s social care to adult services can be complex. This survey explores what support, information, and approaches are working well, and where things need to change. You can find it here: r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/4O5-1R5T/s...

Together with co-signatories, CELCIS has written to the UK Home Secretary to share our concerns about proposals in the ‘Family Returns: Reforming Asylum Support and Enforcing Family Returns’ consultation to change support for adult ‘care leavers’. Read the letter: buff.ly/128ht8a

The recording of our webinar discussing the findings from an evaluation of @familyrightsgp.bsky.social trial of Lifelong Links in Scotland, is available here: buff.ly/3YKHtMR

ICYMI: In this post for the CELCIS blog, Dr Alex McTier, our Evidence and Evaluation Specialist, looks at Scotland’s latest Child Protection Statistics, sharing his caution about what seems to be a static picture: buff.ly/RgsEEhe

Bring Glasgow Science Festival into your classroom with Cheers for 20 Years STEAM Activity Pack with lip reading, board games & more! For primary learners, home use & youth groups. Download your free copy: www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/gsf2026/cheers/programme/schools/headline_1263172_en.html

New Vacancy 📣| The Robertson Trust is looking for a Programmes and Practice Officer. This role supports the Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland. The closing date is 17th June at 5pm 🔽 www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/news/vacancy...

Call for contributions. In partnership with the @cfyounglives.bsky.social we are inviting contributions to a new report, and would like to hear from anyone who is involved in supporting children and young people’s play. Learn more👇 We'd love to hear from you. DL 31 Aug. Please share!

We've published a new report, ‘Starting Well: Lessons from local areas on how to ensure all children are school ready’. Drawing on interviews with local authorities, we highlight what is working to improve early years outcomes and the barriers. www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...

Free professional coaching for any social worker or social work student in Scotland. Get support to tackle workplace issues, your next career move, or anything else with a fully trained social worker coach from our UK-wide panel. See more: buff.ly/UtG4STv Supported by the Scottish Government.

No child should be exposed to sexually explicit images. The Government has taken an important step towards making the digital world safer for children. Tech firms have a clear responsibility to act. But the Government must go further to implement the full IICSA recommendations.

Fiona Duncan, the Independent Strategic Advisor – the promise, is visiting all 32 local authorities across Scotland, to hear from children, young people, families, and care experienced adults, alongside those working to support them, about progress to keep the promise.

The recording of our webinar Growing Up in Kinship Care, where our speakers shared research and reflections on the experiences and challenges faced by kinship families and the implications of these for policy and practice, is available here: buff.ly/o7w0sg8

We have five free CPD accredited webinar recordings and resources in which researchers and practitioners discuss the role of artificial intelligence in social care and explore whether AI could improve social work and outcomes for children, young people and their families: buff.ly/f6pVNJb

Interested in learning about improvement programmes? Our online resources highlight key improvements and learning from the PACE programme for children’s services, with a recorded webinars, a reflections report telling the whole story, and more: buff.ly/oT5U98S

There’s still time to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our team in Aberdeen as an Assistant Reporter. Closing date is Wednesday 10 June 2026

Calling all practitioners, managers, and people who work alongside children and families, who are keen to share their insights for Scotland's Children's Legislative Review. Engagement workshops are now open for registration. Find out more: buff.ly/fKBJfdu

ICYMI: In this post for the CELCIS blog, Dr Alex McTier, our Evidence and Evaluation Specialist, looks at Scotland’s latest Child Protection Statistics, sharing his caution about what seems to be a static picture: buff.ly/RgsEEhe

Do you work with and support children and their families in Scotland? Practitioner workshops are being held as one of the opportunities to share how children's care and protection law affects your everyday practice or care. Find out more: buff.ly/fKBJfdu

We've been taking a look at artificial intelligence and children's social care in our latest webinar series. Take a look at our AI resources page to get a better understanding the policies, guidance and research that's already in place to help practitioners: buff.ly/icuehPh

Two practitioner workshops are taking place in June as part of the evidence gathering for the Independent Review of Scotland's Legislative Framework for Children's Care. Register your interest before 8 June: buff.ly/fKBJfdu

Take a look at the recording of our recent webinar which looked at experiences of using AI transcription tools in social care and public services: buff.ly/MNcHQHh

Parents with learning disabilities are disproportionately represented in the child protection system. Join an open access webinar on 23 July exploring research findings on parenting capacity and attachment in the context of parents with a learning disability. https://ow.ly/eVhV50Z72cC

Big news for children in care. The Government has announced £8.4 million to help children in care build lifelong, loving relationships — our Lifelong Links approach is central to that mission.

📣Save the date! 📆Join us on Thursday 16th July 2:00-3:00pm to mark the 2-year anniversary of the UNCRC Act in Scotland #UNCRCScotland ➡️Sign up link: bit.ly/UNCRCActWebi...

This report should be a wake-up call to the Scottish Government and COSLA that the crises in health and social care cannot be fixed without addressing the growing challenges within social work. buff.ly/ZQAXJec

The recording of our webinar Growing Up in Kinship Care, where our speakers shared research and reflections on the experiences and challenges faced by kinship families and the implications of these for policy and practice, is available here: buff.ly/o7w0sg8

NEW: In this post for the CELCIS blog, Dr Alex McTier, our Evidence and Evaluation Specialist, looks at Scotland’s latest Child Protection Statistics, sharing his caution about what seems to be a static picture: buff.ly/RgsEEhe

If you want to know more about whether artificial intelligence might change the way social work can work with children, young people and their families, take a look at these free CPD accredited webinar recordings: buff.ly/f6pVNJb

Calling all practitioners, managers, and people who work alongside children and families, who are keen to share their insights for Scotland's Children's Legislative Review. Engagement workshops are now open for registration. Find out more: buff.ly/fKBJfdu

The importance of life-long support for care leavers is highlighted in today’s BBC report on the Finding Family programme, based on the Lifelong Links model developed by the Family Rights Group to engage relatives and supportive adults in the lives of young care leavers: buff.ly/tLuQnKm

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: buff.ly/kcm4wSq #SJRCC

We were delighted to welcome back Dr Karen Edge to talk about wellbeing as part of our mini-series of Leadership+ podcasts for the summer term 2026. Episode two is out now. 🎧 Listen to explore relationships, nurture and belonging. https://educationscotland.podbean.com/

Read our full joint statement with The Promise Scotland on supporting social workers in keeping the promise. 🔗 socialworkscotland.org/briefings_st...

Science in Schools - free full-day school visit from Royal Institution professional presenter, includes curriculum-linked science shows for students, teachers' practical science CPD session & an after-school community show for parents & carers. Apply by 18 June www.rigb.org/learning/grants-schools

Aged 11-18 years (or up to 25 years if you have special educational need or disability)? Join the Young Research Advisors group & make your voice heard by advising on & co-designing research methods & tools, & more. Apply by 12 June: buff.ly/iqNPOst

Fiona Duncan, the Independent Strategic Advisor – the promise, is visiting all the local authorities across Scotland this year, to hear from people about progress to keep the promise. In this blog, she explains why she is heading out on the road. Read more: https://ow.ly/NIhJ50Z51Kx

The Independent Strategic Advisor & Chief Social Work Officer Highland & Convenor of Social Work Scotland have released a joint statement in support of social workers and the challenges they face, as part of a commitment to work in partnership to drive change. Read more: https://ow.ly/Gzfw50Z707H

The recording of this webinar in our series looking at AI and Children's Social Care is available now. It explores some of the ethical considerations of using AI in social care and the implications, challenges and opportunities for social work practice: buff.ly/pGq67Gb

Do you work with and support children and their families in Scotland? Practitioner workshops are being held as one of the opportunities to share how children's care and protection law affects your everyday practice or care. Find out more: buff.ly/fKBJfdu

📣 Our member @justrightscotland.org.uk recruiting their next Chief Executive Officer! They’re seeking an inspiring & values led CEO to guide the org into its next chapter -someone committed to human rights & strengthening communities Read more here ➡️ www.togetherscotland.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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/IaJKMBI #fostercare

We are pleased to be part of the team supporting the Inclusion Ambassadors. It's great to see their experiences, ideas and contribution to the #ASL landscape, and the direct benefits of engaging with young people with support needs acknowledged. #AdditionalSupportLearning #AdditionalSupport

How are people with experience of the child welfare system making a real difference for others? Watch as Kristy, a member of our parents panel, shares what being a member of our parents’ panel means to her. Watch the video: https://ow.ly/cyxv50Z6ihn #VolunteersWeek #Participation #LivedExperience

📰 Last week we spoke to The Guardian condemning the serious threat posed by the Home Office's power grab from local authorities on age assessment responsibilities. We're taking this fight to the Home Office by calling on MPs to establish an independently led inquiry into the NAAB. 👇

Join this free session tomorrow at lunchtime. A chance to have your say about integration, and hear about Dr Awais Mashkoor's work supporting better integration. Sign up 👉 buff.ly/1YmPROV

Two practitioner workshops are taking place in June as part of the evidence gathering for the Independent Review of Scotland's Legislative Framework for Children's Care. Register your interest before 8 June: buff.ly/fKBJfdu

The latest issue of the open access Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care covers topical issues in residential child care, research, policy and practice. Read the new issue online now: buff.ly/kcm4wSq #SJRCC