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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.
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.
This webinar explores the ramifications for relationship building, supporting parents, contact and care planning. In particular we will:
• Consider the impact of the crisis on practice with
children in the care system;
• Reflect on the particular responsibilities toward
working with young people who are in, or who left, the
care system;
• Discuss the particular challenges facing practitioners,
managers and independent reviewing officers;
• Think about the implications of current Government
guidance regarding statutory duties toward children in
care;
• Identify the messages from research in relation to care
planning, and consider how these can be applied to the
current context;
• Explore ways of supporting foster carers, kinship carers
and birth families;
• Devise strategies that can address these challenges to
placement stability in the current context;
• Apply a rights-based approach to permanency planning
in a period of crisis.