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Dealing with disruption

Bookshop product- 978 1 913384 20 3 - Hedi Argent and Jeffrey Coleman

This Good Practice Guide considers various aspects of disruption in both fostering and adoption placements and is an important tool for those involved in making permanent placements for children.

Exploring Expertise: The IRM

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FREE FOR MEMBERS
This webinar will give a brief history of The IRM (Independent Review Mechanism), and how has the service changed since it began. The session will be facilitated by Maureen O'Loughlin, IRM Contract Manager.

Wellbeing for Professionals

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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.

Wellbeing for Members - Exploring your strengths

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FREE EVENT FOR MEMBERS ONLY
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.

Neurodiversity in Adoption, Fostering and Kinship care - half day course

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20% Off Autumn Sale! Limited places, book now.

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?’.

Learning from Research Webinar: Securing Safety

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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.

Exploring Expertise: Bright Spots Programme

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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.

Learning from Research Webinar: Watch Me Play!

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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.