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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.
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
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.
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.
During this session we will explore how both conscious and unconscious bias’ can affect our decisions regarding recruitment, selection, leadership, motivation and more.
During the Covid 19 crisis, local authorities need ensure that they are able to fulfil their role and responsibilities toward young people in the care system. In a period when face to face contact with children and young people is more limited, ensuring the welfare of those children and
supporting their placements creates a particularly potentially complex set of challenges.
In social work with children and families, the importance of the capacity for practitioners to exercise critical analysis and reflection is widely recognised. This is with regard to managing complex casework and, therefore, improving the quality of their assessments and decision-making. If this is true generally, in our field it is particularly so in this current period of crisis.
Risks of poor cyber security are a real and growing threat. There have been over 260 attacks on organisations recently, many in the public sector. There could potentially cost our company millions of pounds, leaving families without services and permanent damage to our reputation.
This cyber awareness e-Learning suite has been co-funded and co-designed by public sector organisations. It aims to give you the knowledge and skills to keep
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
Assessing the needs of children when making and supporting permanent placement through special guardianship and agreeing and implementing contact plans
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.
Pre-birth assessments are an area of practice that can raise profound ethical and professional challenges. Assessing parenting before the birth of a child requires a very clear framework for understanding parenting, and great care has to be taken as to what is considered ‘evidence’ in the assessment process.
The MRC Critical and Reflective Practice Group is a well established forum that provides an opportunity to:
• Identify and discuss key areas of emerging social work research;
• Explore the implications of major policy documents for practice;
• Debate and discuss key areas in contemporary social work with colleagues from across London.
The current crisis is placing significant and, in many respects, unprecedented pressures on practitioners, their teams and agencies who are attempting to support families. This webinar explores the challenges that can arise and how ideas around professional resilience can be helpful in supporting the well-being of the workforce.
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.
As session for those working through the AFPP Enhanced Level Training modules from Beacon House. The session is to discuss and help embed the key learning points - ideally between modules 2 and 3.
This is the first of a four webinar programme seeks to explore the process of relationship building in work with children, young people and their families.
This is the second of a four webinar programme seeks to explore the process of relationship building in work with children, young people and their families.
These webinars will, drawing on both current and seminal research, look at some of the complexities of relationship building. They will highlight the importance of self-awareness, features of good practice, the pitfalls and traps we can fall into, and how these can be avoided.
This is the first of a series of four webinars explores some of the more complex areas of safeguarding practice with children and young people. Although there is a legitimate debate about the helpfulness of categories, it will nevertheless look at the particular challenges raised around neglect, emotional abuse and intrafamilial sexual abuse.
This is the second in a series of four webinars explores some of the more complex areas of safeguarding practice with children and young people. Although there is a legitimate debate about the helpfulness of categories, it will nevertheless look at the particular challenges raised around neglect, emotional
abuse and intrafamilial sexual abuse
This webinar will set out the key messages for practice when working with children living with PSM, and introduce the principles for a model of practice for children and a training model for frontline staff.
A feature of many of the children and young people we work with, as well as very often their parents, is that they have experienced trauma in their lives. This webinar will explore the impact that trauma can have.
Stability and permanence for children and young people have been aspirations at the heart of the care system for the last thirty years. However, realising these aspirations has been consistently challenging. This webinar scopes the research in this area and identifies what can promote positive experiences of the care systems.
Wherever it is possible, the primary objective in terms of permanence for children in the care system is to reunite them with their birth families. However, research has consistently found that this is a particularly difficult and sensitive process. If not managed effectively, children and young people can be potentially experience further harm.
Audit has become an increasing feature of how casework and services are managed in local authorities. As well as serving as an important quality assurance mechanism for individual children and families, they can also be an invaluable source of learning, providing insight into the wider practice system. All too often, however, audit has been criticised as being reductionist and ‘tick box’ in its nature. This webinar will explore the potential of audit to be used in more constructive and helpful ways.
Young people leaving the care system have to manage what foremost is an accelerated and compressed transition to adulthood. Since the Leaving Care Act 2000, there has been an attempt to personalise and support this process, applying the concept of the ‘corporate parent’ beyond the age of eighteen. However, many of those who are care experienced report that there are still many occasions when their needs are not adequately met.
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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
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.
This MRC webinar with highlight the lived experience of school exclusion among young people and draw out implications for social work and inter-disciplinary practice
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.
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.
A Series of Three Online Workshops: Thinking Through Youth Participation in Safeguarding Work: Reflecting on Challenges for Practice
Dr Elsie Whittington, Dr Camille Warrington, Kirsche Walker
University of Bedfordshire
A Series of Three Online Workshops: Thinking Through Youth Participation in Safeguarding Work: Reflecting on Challenges for Practice
Dr Elsie Whittington, Dr Camille Warrington, Kirsche Walker
University of Bedfordshire
A Series of Three Online Workshops: Thinking Through Youth Participation in Safeguarding Work: Reflecting on Challenges for Practice
Dr Elsie Whittington, Dr Camille Warrington, Kirsche Walker
University of Bedfordshire
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.