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About the Academy

About the Academy

The Academy is here to support practitioners to develop their practice, expand their knowledge and skills and plan their career in the many different roles within the Directorate. We aim to work in partnership with every service within the Children and Learning Directorate to ensure the whole workforce has opportunities for learning and career development within their sector.

Our practice is Relational and is based on a set of values that informs our everyday work and relationships with the children and families we work with as well as relationships between staff.

 The Centre for Relational Practice has been set up to implement Relational practice across the Children and Learning Directorate so that there is a common approach to how we work with children and families across all our services.

Our Systemic Family Therapy Service provides support to the workforce around our relational practice framework. For more information see the leaflets below.

The Systemic Family Therapy Service

What is systemic practice?

Meet the team

 

 

 

Last updated: 23 February 2026