Cecile, based in Scotland, has been a trustee of SPPA since June 2021 and has worked for the University of Strathclyde since December 2023. She is interested in going deeper with social pedagogy: bringing ‘societal’ and community elements into the ways we care for children and young people in residential child care. This is important because the structures we have at our disposal in society, to think about our work, are very individual, yet we all crave community. Hence, she is so interested in theory – it breaks away from those habitual modes of thinking.