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Today we're very excited to share that Senior Research Fellow Nina Vaswani and members of the Men Minds Young People's forum are launching a new programme of work in partnership with Glasgow City Council's Education services. The Young Men Minds programme will involve groups exploring the issues affecting boys' wellbeing in their schools and will work with other pupils, school staff and mentors to codesign solutions to these issues. Read more about the programme at our website here: buff.ly/GdEs5T8

CYCJ's monthly E-Bulletin is out now! There are a whole heap of exciting updates inside including: 🗓️ Save the date for the 2026 National Youth Justice Conference on 17 & 18 June! 💻 Brand new FREE E-Learning on the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 💡 More webinar dates added to the Winter/Spring webinar series! 🌐 Upcoming dates for our practitioners forums 💻 Details of our E-Learning information session aimed at learning and development managers Check it out at our website here: buff.ly/rDskHQD

If you look after learning and development opportunities in your organisation, then come along to our E-Learning information session. We'll share an overview of our recently launched e-learning platform, highlighting it's variable and flexible content and how it can support workforce development across various roles and skills levels. Places are free, so sign up now: buff.ly/iI6i9Gh 🗓️ 24 February ⏰ 11:00 - 12:00 GMT 📍 MS Teams

There's still an opportunity to get involved with the 'Doing intersectionality ‘in justice’' project - aiming to explore young people's experience of policing in Scotland, and how police officers recognise and respond to young people's experiences. If you work with young people (14-17), please share this opportunity to take part in creative focus groups and interviews. For more information, you can visit buff.ly/Jre03Jb or email the project team at [email protected] Challenging Justice Inequalities is funded by the Nuffield Foundation and is a collaboration between the Children & Young People's Centre for Justice (CYCJ) and colleagues across @unistrathclyde (in CELCIS, @lawstrath and Strathclyde Institute of Education) as well as third sector partners Action for Children and @includem2000.

There's still time to register for our first webinar of 2026 with Dr Kemal Saruhan on Children, Capacity and Justice: Reflections from a Comparative Placement between Türkiye and Scotland. 🗓️ 29 January ⏰ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM GMT 📍 Online, Teams Sign up for your FREE place 👇 buff.ly/5P92Mn8

If you're interested in utilising our e-learning modules in your organisation, come along to our information session where we will be giving an overview of our recently launched e-learning platform, highlighting it's variable and flexible content and how it can support workforce development across various roles and skills levels. Attendees will gain insight into our pricing policy including available packages and options as well as explanation of our service level agreement, outlining support, quality assurance standards and reliability commitments. 🗓️ 24 February ⏰ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT 📍 MS Teams Register now via TicketTailor: buff.ly/iI6i9Gh

Episode 19 of Creative Conversations with CYCJ is out now, wherever you get your podcasts. Listen now to catch up on our fascinating conversation with CYCJ Associate and Director of the Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding, Professor Carlene Firmin, that took place ahead of her Kilbrandon lecture last year. buff.ly/ExITRWH

ICYMI - we launched our eLearning platform to support practitioners who are working with children and young people. Topics available on the platform include: • Formulation • Criminal Exploitation of Children • Digital Safeguarding in Practice For a sneak preview of what to expect from the platform, watch our walk through: youtu.be/dRKC5mZy9Uo Head to our eLearning page to find out more and enrol in the modules that you find most helpful! cycj.org.uk/e-learning/

Winter/Spring webinar series announcement! We've got five webinar dates for your diary. These free webinars will cover a range of fascinating topics - so whether you work in policy, practice or research, we've got something for you. Sign up now via TicketTailor: buff.ly/G8unHaB

The CYCJ office is now closed until the 5th of January 2026. Thank you to all our friends and colleagues who have supported us throughout 2025. We look forward to collaborating with you all again in 2026. Wishing you all a very restful time over the festive period.☃️

December's E-Bulletin is out now! 🎉 Join us in reflecting on this year's accomplishments. Check it out here: buff.ly/vK9nDPe

If you're planning the training for your team in 2026 - look no further than our E-Learning platform. We're bringing you even more modules to add to the suite of options currently available. Watch this video for a sneak preview of what to expect from the platform 👇 buff.ly/QjsXj0o

This year’s #HumanRightsDay theme is Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials - showing how our human rights shape our daily lives. At the heart of everything we do at CYCJ is to ensure that Scotland’s approach to children and young people is rights-respecting, contributing to safer communities, better outcomes for our children, young people and families. For children and young people in Scotland, the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was a significant step forward in making children’s rights fundamental to their every day experience.  We know that there is more that can be done to bridge the gap between the aspirations of the UNCRC and children’s every day experiences and this is central to our work. We are pushing, for example, for new pieces of legislation to be entirely within the scope of UNCRC. And check out Lauren Emmerson’s blog from this year’s RJ week, where she explores how an increase in the access to restorative justice could bring Scotland’s justice system closer to the detail of the UNCRC. “Rights are intrinsic to justice and justice relies on a legal framework to support access and protection.” Read her blog here: buff.ly/lRzcr1Y

Register now for our first webinar of 2026! 👇 Children, Capacity and Justice: Reflections from a Comparative Placement between Türkiye and Scotland with Dr Kemal Saruhan. Drawing on legal, clinical and policy frameworks, the session will discuss the age-related criminal responsibility structures in both countries; the differing roles of child psychiatry, social work and legal actors; and how Scotland’s Children’s Hearings System provides an integrated, child-centred model. The webinar will also consider what lessons may be transferable across systems and the wider implications for practitioners and policymakers working with vulnerable children. 🗓️ Thu 29 Jan 2026 ⏰ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Book your free place now at TicketTailor: buff.ly/on6Ysbp

Check out our latest episode of Creative Conversations with CYCJ - featuring our associate, Professor Carlene Firmin, available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. On the day we recorded this episode Carlene gave the 23rd Kilbrandon Lecture, and in this conversation we hear about how Carlene approached this year's lecture, the topics she covers in the lecture and how the concept of contextual safeguarding fits in to Scotland's youth justice landscape. Listen now 🎧 buff.ly/GgNq551

Check out this blog from Director Fiona Dyer about what we can be done to #KeepThePromise by the next Scottish Government: thepromise.scot/news/scottis… Thanks to @ThePromiseScot for asking us to contribute to this blog series.

CYCJ in collaboration with the Lucy Faithfull Foundation have created a new eLearning module on Digital Safeguarding in Practice, to provide a greater awareness of the risks present for children using digital technology. Children have a right to access digital technology and online information, and it is critical when in that environment they are safe from abuse and harm. Key elements of this instance of learning are: building digital awareness, identifying indicators of online sexual abuse and grooming, promoting safe use of digital technologies and responding to harmful online behaviour. Take this course flexibly at your own pace: 💻Fully Online ⏰Four hours With support from the Scottish Government, we are now able to offer this course to learners free of charge. To enrol, simply click below to access the enrolment page: buff.ly/QEdLAuv