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This course provides supervising social workers the opportunity to develop their practice and confidence in these areas. It will include a review their role and responsibilities in relation to foster carers and promote the development of best practice.

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Safer Internet Day is a global initiative to promote safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. This years theme is on how to support care experienced young people navigate emerging AI technologies.

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Hear from three experienced practitioners to gain a greater awareness of the barriers for children in kinship care. The creation of online resource hubs, the outcome of a research project conducted by Surrey Virtual School, has been used to improve access to support and raise awareness of kinship care across the education sector. Join this event to learn more about these resource hubs and how they can be used to support children in kinship care.

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Special Guardianship Orders (SGOs) are increasingly granted as a route for children to leave care. This event will focus on findings from the recent Nuffield foundation study on Special Guardianship Families' experiences and support needs. Hear from Lorna Stabler, who has undertaken extensive research on SGOs, to learn more about these latest developments. and how they can be implemented in practice and shape policy going forwards.

This two-day open course will provide practitioners and particularly those who may be new to undertaking, quality assuring or considering fostering assessments with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and practice in completing fostering assessments. This workshop may also provide a refresher for those wanting to reflect and build on knowledge skills and best practice in the completion of fostering assessments.

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As artificial intelligence begins to enter children’s and families social work, an important question for practice is emerging: who does this technology support, and how does it affect day-to-day work with children and families? This online event brings together a panel of experts from across research and social work to explore these issues from a practice perspective. Designed for social workers across adoption, fostering and kinship care, and those with varied levels of confidence and experience, the session will focus on the ethical challenges and practical approaches to using AI in social work.

Annual Reviews are an essential part of our statutory support and supervision of foster carers. In this open course, we explore how to complete an annual review well. We explore how to ensure the review meets the needs of the Fostering Service to be legally compliant, but also of carers to feel valued and supported, whilst keeping children at the centre of the process.

Panel advisers have a complex role in managing the relationship between the agency and the panel, quality assuring and feeding back to all involved in panel work. This open course will enable panel advisors to examine this role in detail and build on effective practice as they carry out their role and responsibilities including: quality assurance; inducting new panel members; contributing to the appraisals of panel members; feeding back issues to the agency and working with the agency decision maker. Case scenarios, group work and practice application will provide opportunities for panel advisors to address shared dilemmas and good practice.