Exploring Expertise: Kinship Care Week - Early identification of prospective kinship carers

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Join us for an informative and interactive event exploring good practice in the early identification of prospective kinship carers. Many local authorities work hard to ensure kinship care is prioritised as a potential care plan for a child. But this relies on prospective kinship carers – both here and overseas – being identified early and supported to start the journey of potentially caring for a child and becoming a kinship carer.

Join this lunchtime event to hear from two local authorities who have recognised some of the challenges and thought about ways to overcome them.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Family Group Conferencing: Explore examples of good practice and process in family participation and family group conferencing from Tower Hamlets’ kinship service
Information sharing: Understand how initial assessments and information sharing can ensure that, when a child is at risk of becoming looked after, their wider family are always explored as potential carers; both here and overseas.
Completing initial viability assessments: From Birmingham Children’s Trust, we’ll be joined by Natasha Al-Mossili, Team Manager, Kinship Team who will share their learning around how the assessment information gathered at an early stage can usefully inform care planning for children.

PUT QUESTIONS TO OUR PANEL

We are delighted to announce our speakers will join a panel discussion with members at this event. If you would like to put questions to our panel in advance, please do so using the contact details below.

PRESENTERS

Chair:
Clare Seth, Kinship Consultant, CoramBAAF

Panel:

Richard Desjardins, Advanced Practitioner, Family Participation and FGC Service, Tower Hamlets

Jane Towey, Manager, Tower Hamlets Family Participation Service

Casey Guilbeau, Team Manager, Kinship Service, Tower Hamlets

Natasha Al-Mossili, Team Manager, Kinship Team, Birmingham Children’s Trust

Ann Horne, Kinship Consultant, CoramBAAF

Sandra Latter, Outbound Permanence Advisor, CoramBAAF

WHO’S IT FOR

This session is for professionals working in kinship services that have an interest in learning more about current good kinship practice from Local Authorities in the UK.

For social workers, reflection on this session may contribute to your continuing professional development (CPD).

Members can watch recordings of previous Exploring Expertise Webinars here