DSE Assessor

Universal Safeguarding Children Refresher

The course syllabus meets the requirements of OFSTED, EYFS and the National Childminder’s Association.

To enable participants to carry out reflective supervision in their workplaces

This course if for Early Help staff to help them understand the Therapeutic Thinking Schools Programme and how to work effectively with schools to help families.

An introduction to using Outcomes Stars to help support families to make changes in their lives.

Part of our HR Core Skills Programme for all BFfC Managers

Part of our HR Core Skills Programme for all BFfC Managers

Introduction for frontline staff into child exploitation

Part of our HR Core Skills Programme for all BFfC Managers. The course looks in detail at managing performance and increasing manager knowledge and confidence of the disciplinary process.

Essential course for all managers and staff who raise purchase orders and invoices

An essential course for all budget holders.

Learn about BFfC branding and communications and how to manage these effectively for your team or service

Train as 'Good Practice Co-ordinator' in the Intensive Interaction approach to support colleagues using it in your team or setting.

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This course shows you step-by-step how to write winning bids by making the process easier and more efficient. You will learn insider tips from bid writers experienced in helping organisations like yours write successful bids. Delegates should have attended the Writing Reports course before attending this one.

It takes a lot of skill to communicate important financial or business information efficiently and accurately to enable critical business decisions to be made. This course will help you to develop your business writing.

A 5 day intensive course for Social Workers with limited exposure to ABE. The course consists of 2 days theory, 2 days practice and a visit and practice session at a local interview suite. This course is not currently scheduled in the 2021-22 programme but we are recording interest in the course and will seek to provide it if the is sufficient interest and budget.

This course will enable workers who work with families to develop effective ways and build confidence in working with difficult behaviour, in order to recognise potential impacts on professional dynamics and multi-agency child protection work when professionals are faced with working with families who are hostile and evasive. It is recommeded for all BFfC staff who work in families homes alone as part of our Lone Worker training pathway

Training in Mind of My Own which is used to communicate directly with children and young people we support.

This course is ideal for anyone working on the frontline with children/young people and families, or involved in the supervision and support of those who do.

Learn how to administer prescribed medication safely to children and young people in our care. We are in the process of seeking a new provider for this course after our previous provider retired.

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This course will explore the key elements in terms of knowledge and skills required for the role of the social worker. It will equip workers to examine their practice systemically and examine the key tools and knowledge required in order to practice confidently.

Essential training for staff involved in handling and managing complaints

This workshop is ideal for line managers, mentors and people in middle management who would like to develop their coaching and mentoring skills. You will learn one of the most recognised models of organisational coaching, and will have an opportunity to practise the technique within the training environment.

Course Overview This course is designed for all Intensive Interaction practitioners who work in the field and wish to take a more central role in developing and supporting Intensive Interaction practice across a service. This course is suitable for the following groups: teachers and teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and assistants, psychologists, social workers, residential managers and staff, qualified and non-qualified etc.

During this session we will explore how both conscious and unconscious bias’ can affect our decisions regarding recruitment, selection, leadership, motivation and more.

An Introduction to Genograms

An essential course for all staff

An essential course for all staff

An essential course for all staff

An essential course for all staff based in the civic offices.

An essential course for all staff

Personal Safety - Lone Working

This course provides the essentials you need to know with links to the latest government, Care Quality Commission and NHS updates.

We think you'll be quite surprised to find out how many hazardous substances are around you every day and how much harm they can cause. This course will look at your responsibilities at work and what you can do to keep yourself and the people around you safe. Join us on a thrilling adventure into the world of COSHH. Alright, that might be a tiny exaggeration but we've done our very best to make it interesting.

Florence Nightingale apparently said "Wise and humane management of a patient is the best safeguard against infection". Be wise - take this course!

This course is for anyone who will directly be administering medication for individuals you support. You must complete Medication - Supporting and Assisting (Part 1) before starting this course. Part 1 contains essential information about medication which is not covered in this course.

This course is for anyone who will be supporting or assisting individuals to take their own medication. If your role requires you to administer the medication yourself, then you will need to complete this course and also the second course: Medication - Administration (Part 2) which thankfully is much shorter than this one.

Wow - a whole course about legislation! Not quite! Really it is about people, their rights and making sure that if they are unable to make choices for themselves that they are appropriately protected and supported. Anyone can lose capacity for a short period of time and knowing their rights in these situations is essential. This course will help you to understand this important area of care and support work.

Dive in to this course to find out exactly what autism is. See for yourself what it is really like to live on the autistic spectrum. Learn the skills you may need to support someone on the autistic spectrum.

This course aims to raise awareness about epilepsy and the management of seizures. We look at the different types of seizure, how they are diagnosed as well as some of the treatments available. We provide essential first aid guidance to support a person having a seizure caused by epilepsy. We cover care planning and risk management with some case studies and provide links to further guidance.

The Level 1 Food Safety and Hygiene course has been designed to introduce beginners to food safety, introduce the basic principles of food safety and how to keep clean and hygienic whilst preparing food

This Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene course meets UK and EU training requirements for food handlers and includes a City and Guilds accredited certificate on completion. By completing this course you will have satisfied your legal obligation as a food handler to undertake appropriate food safety training.

Motivational Interviewing is useful for a wide range of social issues. Its primary focus is on igniting motivation to change, and so it is helpful when clients are stuck in problems and not advancing in change. As such it is helpful in all change and recovery-based services such as mental health, substance misuse, offending, social work, domestic violence, supported housing, young people’s services, family work and more besides.

In this free course, Infants' understanding of their social world, we draw on a wide range of psychological research to address the question of whether infants have a rich understanding of their social world. You will have the opportunity to read journal papers and newspaper articles as well as to engage with audio clips, and to explore your assumptions about infants' social understanding.

This course is for Managers and supervisors who have Level 3 responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of staff.

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. Learn about a structure known as ‘NOW’ to facilitate helpful and constructive conversations with children and young people

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. What self-harm is and how it might present.

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. The presentation of anxiety in adolescence and how to talk with young people about it.

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. What self-harm is and how it might present.

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. What eating disorders are and how they might present.

This free course, Project management: The start of the project journey, introduces projects, what they are, how they come about, responses to problems and planning. It explores the role of key players including the project manager, feasibility studies, decision making and project life cycles.

Develop your knowledge & understanding of the use of synthetic cannabinoids, develop harm reduction strategies and ways to support individuals experiencing problems with their use

The newly developed Working with Cannabis is an opportunity for practitioners to update their knowledge & skills to support people using cannabis.

this course will give practitioners the confidence to effectively respond to use of benzodiazepines and other sedative/ ‘Z’ type drugs and support people experiencing problems

An introduction to contextual safeguarding

Have a better understanding what things are like for Children in Care

Previously NRM training the Modern Slavery First Responder training is organised by the Home Office

The Graded Care Profile 2 is the only authorised update of the original GCP — It is a practical tool designed to provide an objective measure of the care of children. The GCP2 model is primarily based on the qualitative measure of the commitment shown by parents or carers in meeting their children’s developmental needs.

Analysis of the role of the commissioner and exploring commissioning skills

Develop a child focused and holistic approach to care planning and be aware of the key factors and details required in each section of the care plan and how this links with other planning documents and tools.

The train the trainer course enables attendees to deliver the Universal Safeguarding Children course .

Listen to a presentation about our various understandings of race and reflect on how we can be actively anti-racist

An interactive online webinar enabling teaching professionals to deal with issues relating to street gangs and criminal exploitation.

This workshop explores the right of children and young people (under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights) not to be deprived of liberty

This session has been designed to provide participants with the practical skills to take notes during meetings and prepare meeting output documents which meet the needs of the meeting attendees and the chair.

A look at using Microsoft Teams for Training and at the new functions being offered by teams.

First Thought, Not Afterthought – Kinship Care

Assessing the needs of children when making and supporting permanent placement through special guardianship and agreeing and implementing contact plans

Lone working Management training

This is an online, 60-minute, and instructor-led session to introduce the Research in Practice (RiP) platform. Information on the target audience and desired outcomes are available in the description.

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. The relationship between autism and mental health. Exploring

understanding co-occurring substance use and mental illness

This one day course will train you in the skills of safer people handling.

A training course for Children’s social workers and managers

This course is designed for people who want to receive training in emergency first aid. It is especially suited for nominated first aiders in offices. The course covers first aid protocols for adult casualties only.

This course is for supervisors in catering organisations

This is the first of a series of 2 workshops to prepare for the upcoming SEND inspection. All staff who may be interviewed by Inspectors are asked to attend

An essential course for social workers and managers

Developing an understanding of Autism. This is the first stage of the Autism Education Trust AET training pogramme.

Develop your understanding of Autism and what makes good autism practice.

Part of a series of short project management workshops delivered by Reading Borough Council's Project Management Office

Part of a series of short project management workshops delivered monthly by Reading Borough Council's Project Management Office

Part of a series of short 1 hour project management workshops delivered by Reading Borough Council's Project Management Office

Part of a series of short project management 1 hour workshops delivered by Reading Borough Council's Project Management Office

Part of a series of short project management 1 hour workshops delivered by Reading Borough Council's Project Management Office

Part of a series of short project management 1 Hour workshops delivered by Reading Borough Council's Project Management Office

Part of a series of short project management 1 hour workshops delivered by Reading Borough Council's Project Management Officer

A supported programme to prepare Children's Centre staff and partner to deliver the NSPCC Coping with Crying Programme to parents

CIPFA Webinar from 30 June 2021 exploring the drivers around local government re-organisation

CIPFA Webinar from 5 May 2021 looking at best practice and new approaches to safeguarding in education and social care settings

CIPFA Webinar from 21 April 2021 exploring challenges and successes of working from home since covid

Recorded in May 2020 this looks at decision making in care proceedings after the public law outline reforms

Explore why young people join gangs and the nature and impact of child criminal exploitation in webinars and seminar sessions.

A course to help you understand and support the development of EHCPs for children and young people

This training is aimed at practitioners in the Social Care and SEND sector such as Early Help practitioners, Social workers (in all teams), Team managers & Anyone involved in providing social care advice and information for EHC needs assessments

Training for Social Work Professionals

You will learn how to deliver the NSPCC Coping with Crying Programme to parents and groups of parents.

For Social Care Team Managers and Assistant Team Managers who support and supervise Care Plans

This course is recommended for complaints investigation officers after they have attended our in house customer complaints course.

This course is to train staff to be able to deliver manual handling to colleagues in their team and service.

This course is recommended for Social Workers in Access & Assessment Teams only at this time

This programme is aimed at Team Managers in Social Care and is recommended for all Team Managers

This course is designed to increase the theoretical knowledge and practical application of health and social care professionals on the up to date legal framework, that covers individuals’ capacity to make decisions, protection of their rights, cognitive decision making process, and understanding the principles of proper care towards these vulnerable individual’s.

For those already using outcomes stars to feedback their experience and ideas t the developers of the tool

This programme is aimed at Assistant Team Managers in Children's Social Care and is recommended for all Assistant Team Managers

Essential training for Social Workers

This session is designed to enable attendees to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired during the two-day MCA course.

Train as a facilitator to deliver the coping with crying programme to parents

Life story work: Enhancing confidence in direct work with children and the creation of good quality life books

Explore how complex safeguarding approaches can support child protection and safeguarding practice. This seminar is part of an online learning package which includes watching four pre-recorded films. Please ensure you have set aside at least two hours to complete this before attending the live seminar.

To increase confidence in recognising and responding to IFCSA. This seminar is part of an online learning package which includes watching four pre-recorded films. Please ensure you have set aside at least two hours to complete this before attending the live seminar.

The programme is aimed at experienced middle leaders working in children’s services, who identify themselves as being from a black or minority ethnic background. It is delivered by The Staff College

This course is aimed at Social Workers working in Local Authority teams that undertake both front door assessments and full Merton Compliant Age Assessments Local Authorities are seeing an increase in age assessment challenges.

What has changed for registered Social Workers in your annual CPD Requirements?

This programme has been designed for Cressingham & Pinecroft Staff and will be delivered in partnership with Jenna Redmond, ASD Advisor, Sophie Webster, Sensory Therapist & Maarit Eben, The Avenue School.

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A New course in the series of PPEP mental health courses delivered by colleagues in Health.

A New course in the series of PPEP mental health courses delivered by colleagues in Health.

A New course in the series of PPEP mental health courses delivered by colleagues in Health.

It is a mandatory requirement for all BFfC employees to attend an Unconscious Bias session in April. We will offer a total of six sessions across two days 16 & 25 April. There are three sessions per day and you only need to attend one of the six sessions. The sessions have a 90minute duration, will be delivered virtually, and are instructor led.