Whether we always know it or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a now an element of many of the digital and electronic tools many of us use every day in our professional and personal lives. The deliberate use of AI-powered tools and applications has increasingly been seen as a possible answer how to make public services more efficient and whether there are new, additional or alternative ways to providing access to information, support, or services.
What does this mean then for children’s social care in particular? To begin this new Emerging Insight Series of free, online webinars, we’ll be setting the scene and considering what AI might mean for children’s social care in particular, by
- exploring some of the fundamental questions and potential opportunities and challenges of how AI is being used in practice,
and, in responding to the care and protection needs of children and young people, and supporting their families,
- looking at what is beginning to be understood about the influences and impacts of AI in children’s and young people’s lives.
Join CELCIS on 15 January for this webinar and discussion with:
- Professor Donald Forrester, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Director of the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) and Deputy Director, of the Centre for Social Care and AI Learning (SCALE), based at Cardiff University and
- Andrew Morley, Senior Practice Development Consultant with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
This session will provide an opportunity to think through some of the ethical and practice considerations involved including what does this mean for relationship-based practice, how the human inputs into AI affect the outputs, and how AI could complement practice.