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Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer St David’s Children Society is a registered charity and not for profit  voluntary adoption and fostering agency. Due to the pending retirement of the CEO of St David’s Children Society, an exciting opportunity has arisen to lead this vibrant, forward-thinking Agency into the next stage of its development.  We seek an experienced, creative and passionate leader, combining innovation and commitment, to deliver on the Agency’s three-year Strategic Plan. The successful candidate will demonstrate energy, expertise and knowledge of the contemporary challenges facing adoption.  They will champion the modernisation agenda to ensure adoption is the placement of choice for those children unable to live with members of their birth family. They will demonstrate energy in driving forward developments in fostering and wider permanency spectrum.  The successful candidate will be able to evidence the professional, technical and managerial skills required to motivate and lead a team to optimise life chances for children. They will also demonstrate the ability to work in partnership with colleagues in the statutory and voluntary sector.  St David's Children Society To be negotiated Cardiff Full time

Exploring Expertise: Caring for Children who have Experienced Domestic Abuse

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FREE FOR MEMBERS
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.

Learning from Research: Making long-term foster care a positive permanence option- Messages from 25 years' of research

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Permanence remains the goal of children’s social care. But ensuring that children from troubled backgrounds grow up in ‘stable homes, built on love’ (Department for Education 2023) is inevitably a challenge in all forms of permanence. Emeritus Professor Gillian Schofield OBE and Dr. Birgit Larsson deliver their assessment of long-term foster care as a permanence option by sharing the messages from 25 years' of research at the University of East Anglia.

An introduction to neurodiversity in adoption, fostering and kinship care

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Let's acknowledge and celebrate difference. Understand neurodiversity as a natural variation to ‘the norm’ rather than as something that is disordered, dysfunctional or deficient. This session is an introduction to aspects of neurodiversity including autism, dyslexia and ADHD. It will give an overview to increase participants' knowledge and develop confidence in the subject.

Getting started in: Permanence

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OPEN TO ALL
As the UK’s leading membership organisation for professionals working across adoption, fostering and kinship care we want to equip professionals like you with the knowledge, best practices, and resources needed to improve the lives of children and young people. This is why we are launching a breakfast webinar series to help you “get started in adoption, fostering and kinship care.