Children’s Services Reform Research Study: Workforce Survey

Children’s Services Reform Research Study: Workforce Survey for social work, education, youth justice, police and third sector staff.

The Children’s Services Reform Study aims to inform the Scottish Government’s decision-making regarding the future structure and delivery of Children’s Services in Scotland in light of the development of the National Care Service.  Scottish Government has asked CELCIS to carry out this research study to better understand what is needed for children, young people and families to get the support they need when they need it.

The Study is inviting people working in Scotland’s children’s services’ workforce to complete an anonymous survey to help understand more about the factors that bring about:

• High quality experiences and outcomes for children, young people and families using services
• Close multi-agency working between professionals across different services
• Continuity of support when young people transition to adult services
• High quality support for the workforce, and/or
• Transformational change of services.

Your experiences and insights will be vital in helping to understand the everyday realities of working to support children, young people and families. This includes the things that work well, as well as the things that can get in the way of people receiving the support they need, when they need it. The findings from this survey will be used alongside the study’s other strands of research to inform the Scottish Government’s decisions about the future structure and delivery of children’s services in Scotland.

Who can take part?

You can complete this survey if you or your organisation provides support, care and/or protection to children, young people and their families who need the support of services. This includes working in the following roles and services:

• Senior leader, manager or supervisor, frontline worker and support staff; within
• Social work, health, education, youth justice, police or the third sector.

When is the survey open?

There are two windows for survey completion:

Window currently open: For social work, education, youth justice, police, non-NHS health staff and third sector staff the survey window is now open until Friday 25 August 2023.

Window not yet open: For NHS health staff, the survey window will open soon and we will share further communication then.

How to take part

To read more about the survey and decide if you would like to take part, click on the survey link below. The survey begins by providing more information about the survey and how your responses will be used, before leading on to the survey questions.

Survey Link (this link will take you away from our website).

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