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  • The views and experiences of the children’s services workforce

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: Care Experienced children

    In 2022, the Scottish Government asked CELCIS to carry out a research study with the aim of gathering evidence to inform decision-makers about how best to deliver children’s services in Scotland. The purpose of the children’s services reform research is to answer the question: “what is needed to ensure that children, young people and families get the help they need, when they need it?”

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  • Care Leaver Payment: consultation on policy proposals

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: Care Experienced children

    Closing date: 26th January 2023

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  • The Bright Spots programme in Scotland- second pilot phase

    Date: 17th November 2023
    Category: Care Experienced children

    CELCIS in partnership with Coram Voice, is extending the pilot phase of the Bright Spots programme in Scotland. This initiative, comprising the 'Your Life, Your Care' and 'Your Life Beyond Care' online surveys, seeks to empower children and young people with Care Experience to share their perspectives on life and well-being.

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  • Care Leaver Payment: Consultation on policy proposals

    Date: 17th November 2023
    Category: Care Experienced children

    Closing Date: 26th January 2024

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  • Research participation: children and young people’s thoughts and experiences of continuing care

    Date: 5th September 2023
    Category: Care Experienced children

    CELCIS is looking for children and young people with care experience aged 12-26 to share their thoughts, experiences, and views of Continuing Care, so that they can help to influence change and make things better for everyone.

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  • Progress update: Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Bill

    Date: 16th June 2023
    Category: Care Experienced children, Child justice system

    The Stage 1 Report for the Bill is now available. This Bill proposes significant changes including maximising the use of the Children’s Hearings System for under-18s.

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  • Rising child poverty linked to 10,000 more children in care

    Date: 1st August 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children, Child poverty

    Recent research completed by the University of Liverpool has found that a rise in child poverty over the last five years (2015-20) correlated with an additional 10,351 children being removed from their homes and taken into local authority care in England.

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  • 2021 Day of General Discussion report published

    Date: 1st August 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children

    The Day of General Discussion (DGD) 2021 focused on children’s rights in alternative care. The report sets out recommendations for government, civil society actors and human rights institutions made by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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  • New report on Scotland’s progress keeping The Promise

    Date: 7th July 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children

    The Promise Scotland Oversight Board is responsible for monitoring the progress towards keeping The Promise. The Promise aims to ensure the most vulnerable children feel loved, respected, listened to and heard in decisions that affect them. Reporting annually until 2030, the Board conclude that although progress is being made, the delivery bodies responsible for Keeping the Promise need to increase the pace and scale of change. 

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  • Implementation plan to Keep the Promise

    Date: 7th April 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children

    The Promise identifies a 10-year programme for change. This Implementation Plan sets out the range of actions across the different parts of Government that contribute to the commitments made to Keep the Promise for care experienced children, young people and their families.

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  • Care Experienced young people are invited to take part in a new survey

    Date: 7th April 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children

    Care Experienced children and young people are encouraged to take part in a new Digital Wellbeing survey. The survey focuses on digital rights, safety online and maintaining relationships. Those who are members of Young Scot will get Young Scot points for completing it too!

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  • Help shape a set of standards for Scotland’s Bairns Hoose

    Date: 14th March 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children

    Children and young people aged 16 to 25, with experience of child protection or the justice system are invited to assist in the development of the guidelines for Scotland's Bairns Hoose.

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  • Basic income pilot scheme for care leavers will be trailed across Wales

    Date: 14th March 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children

    From the month after their 18th birthday, young people leaving care in Wales will be offered £1600 per month for two years.

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  • Insufficient progress since The Promise

    Date: 4th March 2022
    Category: Care Experienced children

    According to the organisation leading a major revamp of Scotland’s care system, many lives “may have got worse” since it began.

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  • Analysis of consultation responses concerning the Children (Scotland) Act 2020

    Date: 2nd February 2022
    Category: Social security, Family reunification, Care Experienced children, Parental responsibilities, Protection from abuse or neglect

    These analysis reports capture and summarise responses to two 2021 consultations: on child contact centres; and another on child welfare reporters, curators ad litem and solicitors. This article highlights the key themes identified in the reports, interspersed with what we said in our consultation response.

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  • Call for interest - Day of General Discussion 2021 on children’s rights and alternative care

    Date: 12th February 2021
    Category: Care Experienced children

    Organisations that work with care experienced children and/or those with experience of the child-protection are encouraged to take part in a global consultation for the UNCRC Day of General Discussion 2021.

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  • National Theatre of Scotland invites care experienced people to get creative!

    Date: 28th January 2021
    Category: Care Experienced children, Respect for the views of the child

    Care experienced young people and adults, foster carers, children’s residential workers and social workers are invited to co-curate an interdisciplinary performance project that blends media installation with both digital and live performance.

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  • UN 2019 Resolution on the Rights of the Child

    Date: 12th February 2020
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Family reunification, Care Experienced children, Protection from abuse or neglect

    The 2019 Resolution on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 2019. The Resolution focuses specifically on children without parental care.

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  • Sign up for a free online course on implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children

    Date: 29th October 2019
    Category: Care Experienced children, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Training

    This six-week course is designed for practitioners and policymakers from both state and non-state bodies and anyone working in providing services around children’s care.

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  • Scotland’s universities to offer guaranteed places to care experienced applicants

    Date: 25th July 2019
    Category: Care Experienced children, Education, including vocational education, Non-discrimination

    From September, applicants with care experience will be guaranteed an undergraduate place at university if they meet the minimum entry requirements.

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