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xCELCIS launches new five-year strategy to improve support for children and families
Date: 25th June 2025
Category:
General measures of implementation, General principles
The Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS) has published a new five-year strategy setting out its vision for improving the lives of children, young people and families in need of care and support. The strategy, Building Brighter Futures Together, was launched on the 9th of June 2025 and outlines CELCIS priorities up to 2030.
The strategy highlights CELCIS’s continued commitment to working with partners across Scotland, the UK and internationally to create meaningful and lasting change. It focuses on areas where CELCIS believes it can make the biggest difference, including embedding children’s rights, delivering on The Promise of the Independent Care Review, and reshaping support for those in need of care and protection.
Professor Alexis Jay OBE, Chair of CELCIS Strategic Advisory Board and Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde said:
“All children, young people and their families can face challenges in their lives, and the world today exacerbates the continuing necessity to ensure that the rights to support, care and protection are upheld and met. It is in this context that the work of CELCIS remains vital. We exist to challenge and address how this is done and to support improvement in the quality of help that children and young people receive. We do this by facilitating and enabling change, based on best practice.
“Engagement with local, national and international partners holds the key to the possibilities before us all. CELCIS’s work and approach shows us time and again how working together results in real change. This is essential to our delivery on The Promise of Scotland’s Independent Care Review, and to embedding children’s rights, and reshaping support for children, young people and families in need of care and protection. Our new strategy will further take forward this important work for the next five years, continuing CELCIS’s unique contribution now and in the future.”