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Wellbeing for Professionals sessions will offer an opportunity to meet and share experiences with professionals from across the country, as well as a pause for reflection. The sessions will be led by therapeutic social worker Hedwig Verhagen.

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The aim of this course is for participants to increase their knowledge and develop confidence in discussing some aspects of neurodiversity including Autism, Dyslexia and ADHD. Key questions we will ask on the course are ‘What is neurodiversity?’ and ‘How can we work more effectively with neurodivergent children and young people?’.

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Securing Safety is a research project that explored the rate, cost and experience of the relocation of adolescents exposed to or at risk of extra familial harm. In this webinar you will learn about this important research and its implications for local practice and policy from Dr Lauren Wroe, Assistant Professor (Research) and Dr Delphine Peace, Research Assistant at Durham University.

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The Bright Spots Programme, supports local authorities to systematically listen to their children in care and care leavers, about the things that are important to them. The session will be delivered by Dr Claire Barker, Coram Voice.

A two half day training. In this training Dr Chris Burke, Clinical Psychologist, and Sally Wassell, Child Care Consultant, teach attendees how to use the Safe and Meaningful Contact (SaMC) Guidelines to make evidence-based decisions and recommendations about contact arrangements.

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The webinar will explore the basics of the Watch Me Play! model which has been developed by Dr Jenifer Wakelyn, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and colleagues at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust over many years. The model explores the advantages that result from regular sessions of play for babies and young children in care or those who have left care.

In this second book in the Dennis series, Dennis and his sister are being looked after by a duck foster family after they had to leave their mum and dad. But they miss their parents and want to know if they would ever go home, and who would look after them as they were growing up. What was going to be best for Dennis and his little sister? Where would they live, and who would look after them? There were big decisions to be made…

Panel advisors 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.

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In this Exploring Expertise webinar, join Alexandra Conroy-Harris, Legal Consultant and Ann Horne, Kinship Consultant at CoramBAAF who will explore the legal and regulatory framework that can result in unregulated placements, explore possible legal solutions, and reflect on best practice around approval of kinship foster carers in the context of National Minimum Standards.

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.