Short Report on the Evidence of Impact of the MSc in Advanced Residential Child Care

Steckley, Laura (2023) Short Report on the Evidence of Impact of the MSc in Advanced Residential Child Care. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

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Abstract

Scotland’s ambition to be the best place in the world to grow up includes an explicit commitment to give children in care the childhood they deserve (Amos, 2022). This report offers a corollary: for Scotland to be the best place in the world for all children to grow up, including those in residential child care, then the personal and professional development of the adults who care for them must also be a part of Scotland’s ambition. The MSc in Advanced Residential Child Care, a vital pillar in the support for residential child care workers’ development, plays a key role in Scotland achieving this ambition. Introduction & Background This report provides compelling evidence of the MSc in Advanced Residential Child Care’s significant impact on the lives of children and young people, those who work with and care for them, the cultures of particular residential services, as well as the culture of the sector more widely. It will be referred to here forward as ‘the course’. Much of what respondents say in this report is strongly aligned with the core messages of The Promise, the report of the Independent Care Review (2020). Much of what follows reflects a strong alignment with the core messages of the Independent Care Review (2020), demonstrating the course’s vital contribution to keeping The Promise. The course commenced in 2001 in order to support the development of leadership, practice and research in residential child care. It has been funded via the Scottish Government grant first to SIRCC (the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care), and then to CELCIS (the Centre of Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, now the Centre of Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection). It has consistently delivered outstanding teaching (with top Post Graduate Taught Experience Survey results year on year) and has developed a national and international reputation for excellence. Over the last several years, significantly more applications have been submitted than places on the course. More information about the curriculum can be found in Appendix A of the full version of this report. This report offers a distillation of the full report

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