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Microsoft Training - Realise the Potential of Microsoft 365 for Frontline Workers
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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Develop your understanding of Autism and what makes good autism practice. This is the second stage of the Autism Education Trust AET training programme.
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