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This half day course is aimed at professionals who work with children and families who may benefit from a therapeutic intervention and would like to increase their understanding of different therapeutic approaches. Foster carers, kinship carers and adoptive parents who are considering different options for therapeutic support may also benefit from this training.

This half day training is aimed at professionals who are supporting children and their families and who would like to explore different ways to collaborate with schools in meeting the child’s emotional needs. We know that for many children who are in kinship or foster care, or who are adopted, education can be a challenging experience.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
The first-ever National Kinship Care Strategy has been published. This session aims to explore the implications of the strategy on social work with kinship families and the impact it has on local authority planning, practice and workforce. Panel event.

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Attachment is among the core theories for social work with children and families. Yet there remain considerable debates about what practitioners need to know about attachment, in part because outdated ideas about attachment still hold considerable power. In this webinar, we draw on a consultation with the international attachment research community to propose an updating of the curriculum, incorporating the key consensus findings of contemporary research. Our speakers are Prof. Robbie Duschinsky and Dr. Sarah Foster

IN-PERSON EVENT
We are delighted to announce our post-adoption support conference on 11 March 2024 at the Coram Campus. This conference is an opportunity for all professionals working within adoption to share practice, listen to contemporary research, and discuss the pathways toward a better future for all adopted children and their families.

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Why are care-experienced children and young people over criminalised, and how can we better support them? This session explores the reasons behind the unnecessary criminilisation of vulnerable young people and how a joined up approach from Social workers, foster carers, kinship carers, lawyers and advocates can help end it. We will be hearing from Dr. Laura Janes and Kate-Aubrey Johnson who produced the dare to care guide as well as Will Kerridge from Drive Forward Foundation. Joining our panel will be care-experienced campaigners from the Drive Forward Policy Forum.

This pioneering and informative Good Practice Guide sets out the process and practicalities and makes recommendations for good practice for foster carer reviews. It makes an invaluable contribution towards establishing good, evidence-based practice.

OPEN TO ALL
Safer internet day is a global initiative to promote safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Join CoramBAAF adoption consultant, Jane Poore, and, Dr. Vicki Walker, for a discussion on the complexities of safeguarding in the digital world and what this could mean for social work practitioners in the children and families sector. We will be looking at the resources provided by UK safer Internet, begin to look at the challenges particular to Looked after children, and look at our plans for forthcoming materials.

This course is an opportunity to explore the legal and practice framework of private fostering, including best practice in how to work with this often unseen group of children. It will include explanation of the respective responsibilities of parents, private foster carers and local authorities, when private fostering arrangements are made.