Advocacy Skills
This course will prepare you to increase your effective listening and communications skills and increase your ability to express yourself clearly on behalf of vulnerable others in public settings. |
Age Assessment for Asylum Seekers
The programme covers interviewing to investigate, how to make judgements based on indicators and facts and enabling judgement through questioning the age of asylum seekers |
Assessment Framework Skills
This will be a course for more able practitioners to look in greater detail about both the structuring of assessments, including clients as experts through a "signs of safety" approach and increasing your ability to apply systemic skills to assessments. |
Child Permanence (Form E)
The complex task of respectfully obtaining often intimate information and presenting it for others to establish suitability and safe care for vulnerable children is systematically addressed in this course. |
Children Legislation
A revisiting of the legislation from 1989 and 2004 to show the lasting messages and the move toward outcome focussed work to ensure vulnerable children are both safe and free to achieve |
Child Protection for Adoption and Fostering Workers
This course highlights the messages from research and inquiries and gives workers the skills to minimise the risk to vulnerable children who are seeking alternative family care.
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Child Safety
Participants will gain full knowledge of the responsibilities of staff and will increase their abilities in managing and influencing the safety of children and young people. |
Core Group and Post Conference Training
The programme will cover the responsibilities of the core group and how participants can increase their abilities in managing and influencing meetings, managing conflict and maintaining engagement with troubled people |
Crossing Bridges
Many of the issues visited in this course applied in the late 1960's prior to Seebohm and have been highlighted by the move to separate Adult and Children's Services in Local Authorities. This course will equip you to bridge the divide by increasing knowledge and skills in working with families where mental illness is a feature |
Evidence Based Practice
This course will increase your ability to focus on evidence and outcome in your work and will examine cognitive skills and a scientific approach to helping the more vulnerable members of your communities |
Good Record Keeping
"If it is not recorded then it did not happen" This course will examine the place of the written record in your effectiveness as a practitioner and provide a good practice guide that should also reduce the time spent of recording through including the client as co-author |
Including Users and Carers of Services
Participants will consider the inclusion of service users and carers at all levels, strategic, governance, service training and delivery |
Investigating Allegations of Child Abuse
A systematic training in evidence based investigatory techniques that are respectful and thorough and will reduce burdens of uncertainty for you, your agency, your clients and the community |
Job Interviews (Warner Report)
Participants will be shown the selection interview in the context of ensuring child safety, having considered the messages from research and enquiries into the safety of vulnerable children |
Mental Health and Children's Legislation for Approved Social Workers
An examination of the law and the responsibilities of ASW's when working with children including communicating effectively with distressed children |
Preparing for Independence for Vulnerable Children
This course will argue for early independence planning for looked after and vulnerable children to maximise their life chances and will look at evidenced approaches to increasing independence skills |
Professional Relationships with Children
A short course confirming the values behind relationships with children and the behaviours that demonstrate professional approaches. It will examine safety for users and providers of services and remind us of the basic components of normal and interrupted child development |
Protection of Vulnerable Adults (awareness)
We take the participants through the laws relating to the safety of vulnerable adults and let them know the national and local procedures for keeping vulnerable adults safe)
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Protection of Vulnerable Adults (investigative)
Participants are shown how to prepare, plan and engage witnesses to ensure factual and robust statements are made that would stand the court test of credibility |
Supervision Skills and Performance Management
Supervision is crucial to effective management within the care sector. This course develops the skills & knowledge to focus the performance of your staff through clear, agreed performance plans and constructive focused supervisions. |
Tool Kit Management and Solution Focus
A one day programme concentrating on increasing the workers ability to use tools in a single case context specifically to achieve better outcomes for children. |
Writing Skills for Court Reports
The programme will cover writing effective court reports, how to be consistent in report structures and understanding the necessity for factual and evidential content |
Witness Skills in Court Setting
Participants will be shown the rules and procedures in court to establish truth and degree of proof through an adversarial enquiry, to be familiar with the role of the “expert” witness |
