Introducing Kibble Annual Conference November 2024 Glasgow
Transforming Lives
Date: Monday 11th November 2024
Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel, Argyle Street, Glasgow
Kibble first official conference invites you to be part of a wider conversation about the world children and young people grow up in.
91射区 is on the mission to transform lives, families and communities, and ultimately give young people a chance at life. It is a monumental challenge that cannot be tackled alone, instead, in order to ignite change, we must act together.
Our own inaugural event will bring people from children and young people鈥檚 services together in the same room to discuss how to drive valuable transformation from within the sector. Whether you鈥檙e part of residential child care, education, secure care, fostering, young workforce development, mental health services or another, we all have a part to play in shaping the world young people grow up in.
Meet the Speakers
Nicola Killean, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland
Nicola Killean became the Children and Young People鈥檚 Commissioner Scotland in August 2023. She and her team are responsible for protecting and promoting the human rights of everyone under 18 in Scotland, or up to the age of 21 if they have care experience.
Nicola has spent the majority of her career supporting children and young people from communities facing particular challenges and disadvantages.
Before becoming Commissioner, she was the founding CEO of the charity Sistema Scotland which uses music and nurturing relationships to support over 3,500 children and young people across Scotland.
Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport
Maree Todd was appointed as Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport in March 2023.
She grew up in the West Highlands, attending Ullapool High School and then studying pharmacy and prescribing at Robert Gordon’s and Strathclyde, as well as taking an ante-natal teaching diploma at the University of Bedfordshire.
A pharmacist by profession, Maree Todd worked in NHS Highland for 20 years, mainly as a mental health pharmacist in a psychiatric hospital. She also contributed to SIGN guidance on perinatal mental health.
She was previously the Minister for Children and Young People.
Dr Lisa Cherry, Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services
Dr Lisa Cherry is the Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd leading a dynamic and creative organisation that provides a ‘one stop’ approach to delivering on research, consultancy and learning and development. Lisa is an author, researcher, leading international trainer and consultant, specialising in assisting schools, services and systems to create systemic change to the way that we work with those experiencing and living with, the legacy of trauma. Lisa has been working in and around Education and Children鈥檚 Services for over 30 years and combines academic knowledge and research with professional expertise and personal experience. Lisa has worked extensively with Social workers, Educators, Probation Workers and those in Adult Services, training and speaking to over 30,000 people around the world including in the US, Australia and Pakistan and across the whole of the UK.
Lisa has produced multiple pieces of research for various settings and Lisa’s own MA research looked at the impact on education and employment for care experienced adults who experienced school exclusion as children in the 1970’s and 1980’s. In February 2024 Lisa completed her DPhil research at The University of Oxford in the Department of Education. The research asked “How do care experienced adults who were also excluded from school make sense of belonging?”
Lisa is the author of the hugely successful and award winning book ‘Conversations that make a difference for Children and Young People’ (2021)and 鈥楾he Brightness of Stars鈥 3rd Edition published in June 2022. A new book contract has been signed for publication in 2024/2025 on cultivating belonging.
Graeme Armstrong, Bestselling Author
Graeme Armstrong is a Times bestselling, multi-award-winning author from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within Scotland鈥檚 鈥榶oung team鈥 gang culture. After studying English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling, he completed a Master鈥檚 in Creative Writing and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde. His debut novel,THE YOUNG TEAM, was published by Picador in 2020. Most recently, he wrote and presented a BBC series on Scottish gang culture,STREET GANGS, available now on BBC iPlayer. In 2023, he was named one of Granta鈥檚 Best of Young British Novelists, a once-in-a-decade literary honour.
Workshops and Presenters
Shumela Ahmed, Resilience Learning Partnership
Workshop 1: A Roadmap for Creating Trauma-informed Change
Shumela Ahmed from Resilience Learning Partnership will explore the need for evidence-based tools, resources and support in the successful implementation of trauma-informed practice.
Participants will learn more about relevant resources currently available to support the implementation of trauma-informed practice at an organisational level.
Sarah Deeley, CELCIS
(Co-facilitated workshop)
Workshop 2: 鈥淐reating reflective spaces together鈥 how Scotland鈥檚 residential childcare workforce co-designed and implemented the roll out of RALF
In this interactive session, presenters Sarah Deeley and Gemma Watson of CELCIS, University of Strathclyde, will consider how co-design can meaningfully generate effective responses and solutions to problems.
Participants will hear first-hand how co-design was successfully used to design and implement The Promise funded Reflection and Action Learning forum. In addition, discussions will ensue around how participants can use the principles of co-design in their own work setting. There is existing skills, knowledge and experience within teams, settings and sectors. With the right support and facilitation, the workforce is best placed to generate solutions to problems.
Gemma Watson, CELCIS
(Co-facilitated workshop)
Workshop 2: 鈥淐reating reflective spaces together鈥 how Scotland鈥檚 residential childcare workforce co-designed and implemented the roll out of RALF
In this interactive session, presenters Sarah Deeley and Gemma Watson of CELCIS, University of Strathclyde, will consider how co-design can meaningfully generate effective responses and solutions to problems.
Participants will hear first-hand how co-design was successfully used to design and implement The Promise funded Reflection and Action Learning forum. In addition, discussions will ensue around how participants can use the principles of co-design in their own work setting. There is existing skills, knowledge and experience within teams, settings and sectors. With the right support and facilitation, the workforce is best placed to generate solutions to problems.
Sandra Mitchell, Children in Scotland
Workshop 3 – Challenging Conversations – Knowing Ourselves
In this workshop, Sandra Mitchell of Children in Scotland will share insights and learnings on how to manage challenging behaviour. Throughout the workshop, Sandra will discuss language, situations and ways to explore our own feelings to identify the best way to approach challenging situations and/or behaviours.
Donna McEwan, CYCJ
Workshop 4: National Framework and Screening Tool in combating CCE:
Join Donna McEwan of CYCJ (Children and Young People鈥檚 Centre for Justice) as she shares knowledge and insights on the National Framework and Screening Tool. The tool has been developed in Scotland to help combat criminal exploitation (CCE) by facilitating multi-agency collaboration. Delegates will be given the opportunity to critically evaluate and understand the effectiveness of these tools in identifying and addressing CCE.
This contributes to a more coordinated and effective approach in preventing and responding to child exploitation across different sectors involved in child protection.
Child Criminal Exploitation is a critical child protection issue that necessitates a unified and strategic approach from multiple agencies. By integrating existing policies, legislation, and best practices, we can effectively reduce the incidence of CCE and safeguard vulnerable children.
Participants will learn the importance of collaboration, using a specialised screening tool and a national framework, to identify and address child criminal exploitation effectively, ensuring that every response is tailored through a child protection lens to maximise child safety and well-being.
Martin Stabrey, CYC-Net
Workshop 5: From Care to Connection
In this session the presenter will reflect on his eight years in residential care in South Africa in the late 1970s to mid-1980s, concentrating on (contrary to prevailing narratives) the overwhelmingly positive, nurturing, relational life experiences of living in a large scale group care environment, and how these experiences led to him to giving up a life in business running a publishing company to become involved as head of operations of the International Child and Youth Care Network (CYC-Net) 鈥 an entirely open access, voluntarily funded online resource for those working with children and youth in care. CYC-Net has recently been described as the 鈥渢he most important social innovation in our field in the last 30 years鈥.
Satwinder Sandhu, Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (Co-facilitated workshop)
Workshop 6: Workshop details to be announced
In December 2022, CVAA published an independent analysis on the value that adoption brings to children, families and wider society, and found that the best outcomes for children can be achieved at the lowest cost to the state.
As CEO of CVAA, Satwinder Sandhu will guide attendees through the findings of this research, such as the 拢4.2 billion in value that was generated across England, Wales and Scotland in 2021 when 3,350 children were adopted.
Together with Paula Harkins of 91射区, they will describe how 91射区 Adoption鈥檚 new radical model will work in partnership with local authorities to address the drift and delay in permanency and contribute to better outcomes for children in Scotland.
Paula Harkins, 91射区
(Co-facilitated workshop)
Workshop 6: Workshop details to be announced
In December 2022, CVAA published an independent analysis on the value that adoption brings to children, families and wider society, and found that the best outcomes for children can be achieved at the lowest cost to the state.
As CEO of CVAA, Satwinder Sandhu will guide attendees through the findings of this research, such as the 拢4.2 billion in value that was generated across England, Wales and Scotland in 2021 when 3,350 children were adopted.
Together with Paula Harkins of 91射区, they will describe how 91射区 Adoption鈥檚 new radical model will work in partnership with local authorities to address the drift and delay in permanency and contribute to better outcomes for children in Scotland.
Leona Donnelly, 91射区
(Co-workshop)
Workshop 7: Transforming Lives through Workforce Development:
Join Kibble Head of Education, Leona Donnelly and Lisa Wardlaw, Head of The Skills Academy, to hear insights and learning on how The Skills Academy is helping young people find and sustain rewarding employment, whilst gaining invaluable qualifications, skills and training.
You will hear more about our innovative social enterprise model which seeks to inspire, motivate and engage young learners, whilst equipping them with the skills and confidence to find sustainable employment opportunities. The success of our workforce development model is grounded in dynamic partnerships with local organisations which provide real-life work experience and opportunities for young people.
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Why Attend Kibble Conference in Glasgow?
Our inaugural conference is a chance for dedicated professionals to share, learn and develop. Hear from knowledgeable keynote speakers, participate in practical workshops, create valuable connections through networking and enjoy lunch and refreshments in the accessible city centre location.
Topics at our educational Glasgow conference will range from children鈥檚 social care, trauma-informed care, children and young people鈥檚 protection as well as child and youth justice while wholeheartedly considering young people and their families voices and viewpoints.
The statistics grow more alarming each year, now is the time for tangible transformation.
- 33% (87.9K) of food parcels were for children between 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023. This is the most parcels that Scotland鈥檚 Trussell Trust network has ever distributed in a financial year, up by 57% compared to five years ago1
- 24% of children were living in relative poverty between 2019-2022 (250,000 children each year) 2
- Care experienced young people are 10 times higher to be hospitalised for mental and behavioural disorders due to substance abuse3
鈥You can be part of a wider conversation about how essential services can best care for children and young people in today鈥檚 world. Join us at our first official conference in Glasgow to discuss residential child care, children and families, mental health and wellbeing support, social work and child and youth justice as well as education. Conferences give us the opportunity to come together, reflect and share practical changes we can make within our practice.
鈥淜ibble 160 years鈥 experience of providing child care paired with the wide-ranging list of integrated specialist services and close partnerships with fellow organisations put us in the position to hold an event that can bring various professionals and subject matters to the forefront.
鈥淎cross the sector, we are all determined to try and exceed expectations of the recommendations set out in The Independent Review of Children鈥檚 Social Care and embed the Promise within our ways of working. For the first time, 91射区 is hosting its own conference, welcoming private, public and third-sector professionals, encouraging everyone, including ourselves, to take the time and share innovative approaches that can ensure improvement continues to be made in the lives of young people and their families.鈥
CEO of 91射区, Jim Gillespie
Conference Exhibitors
1 Trussell Trust. (2023). Hunger in Scotland. [Online]. Trussell Trust. Last Updated: June. Available at: https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/2023-Hunger-in-Scotland-report-AW-w [Accessed 5 January 2024].
2 Scottish Government. (2023). Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22. [Online]. data.gov.scot. Last Updated: 23 March. Available at: https://data.gov.scot/poverty/ [Accessed 5 January 2024].
3 Children鈥檚 Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS). (2022). Main findings from population-wide research. [Online]. University of Glasgow. Last Updated: October. Available at: https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_989673_smxx.pdf [Accessed 5 January 2024].4 Children and Young People’s Mental Health in Scotland. (2022). Trends in Child and Adolescent Mental Wellbeing. [Online]. The Scottish Parliament. Last Updated: 24 May. Available at: https://digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefings/Report/2022/5/24/aa290f5c-f12a-4077-81 [Accessed 5 January 2024].