Laura provides an insight into what life feels like to live in care, leave care, and seek love and support. “The care system is suported to provide a subsititute for family life, but love is not part of the deal”
Whether we’re talking about improving educational attainment in school, focusing on wellbeing, or securing permanence for looked after children, at CELCIS we know that helping… Read More »Why Relationships Matter to CELCIS
I’m proud to be part of, and passionately believe in the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant, which we launched in October 2015 as part of National… Read More »Why Relationships Matter to The Scottish Care Leavers Covenant
Our research looked at social pedagogy, an approach to working with people which has relationships at its heart…
“The failure of the care system to replicate or compensate for the stable relationships that most children have with their parents is one of its… Read More »Factors Inhibiting Relational-Based Practice in Residential Child Care
“What’s unique about the fostering service? Well we are like a big extended family we all have different roles; foster carers, key workers, managers and… Read More »Stories and Successes within Fostering
During my interviews I asked young people from their experience what their advice would be for staff on building relationships with young people in residential child care.… Read More »Young People’s Advice on Building Relationships in Residential Child Care
Throughout this piece of work I am going to be talking about my transition from care into independent living, what it was like for me… Read More »Leaving home
Boundaries are often seen as lines separating the personal and professional lives of workers. But it is not clear that strict separations of the personal and the professional fit well with the intimacy of the task…
My name is Jenn and I am going to be talking about why relationships are so important for looked after and accommodated young people, why… Read More »They are my family and that to me will never change