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The open course will help to increase the understanding of the supervisory requirements of supervising social workers, in line with fostering legislation. It will look at roles and responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children and young people and how foster carers can be supported and developed in their role.

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This half-day training is aimed at local authority professionals – both social workers and lawyers - who are involved in the placement of children currently living in the UK with kinship carers overseas on a Hague Convention Adoption Order. It will provide an overview of the legal and practice issues regarding Convention Adoption for children being placed abroad. There will then be ample time to discuss issues regarding Convention Adoption overseas cases during case studies and group discussion.

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In this session participants will gain insight into looking at the identity needs of Black and Global majority children and young people, and how they can become more anti-racist in their practice and when needing to place children and young people for permanence. There will be a Q&A session with an opportunity for attendees to put their questions.

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This session focused primarily on supporting children who have witnessed or experienced domestic abuse prior to coming into care. It offered information on how domestic abuse affects children at different ages and stages in their development, the care these children need, and how best to assess, prepare and support them and the families caring for them. Presented by Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose OBE.

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Help to safeguard vital information and improve the culture, processes and experience of all involved in developing and receiving records by contributing to forthcoming guidance on managing the records of care-experienced and adopted people in England and Wales. This participatory session will shape forthcoming best practice guidance for managing care-experienced and adopted people’s records in England and Wales. Sarah Wickham is a consultant information manager and archivist. She has worked in the public and private sector over her 30-year career. With Kevin Bolton, Sarah is delivering this project for the Chief Archivists In Local Government Group (CALGG) of the Archives and Records Association.

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Ruth Copson will share findings from her doctoral research which explores how Family Time/contact for infants in Early Permanence placements is managed and experienced by those closely involved. The perspectives of birth parents, Early Permanence carers and practitioners will be shared with reflections on how infants respond to Family Time.

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Very little is known about what it is like to be a carer for a sibling, or being brought up by your older sister or brother. This session will focus on the findings from a narrative study focused on the experiences of these sibling-headed families, and practitioner experiences in assessing and supporting them. Our presenter is Lorna Stabler. Lorna has been a Research Associate at CASCADE, Cardiff University for five years and is currently an ESRC funded PhD student at DECIPHer, Cardiff University.

This open course will enable adoption and fostering panel administrators to examine related legislation and share best practice though group discussion and practice application.