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Join our monthly Wellbeing sessions, a place for our members to reflect on and boost their personal wellbeing. They will take place on the first Wednesday of every month, from 12pm to 1pm. These sessions will be led by therapeutic social worker Hedwig Verhagen. This month's session will focus on 'Encouraging Connection through Objects'.

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This year the theme of National Adoption Week is maintaining relationships in adoption. We are running three webinars to reflect this. Our first webinar will focus on the topic of birth family relationships for adopted people and will explore what and how things need to change. Delivered by Professor Beth Neil, Director of Research from the UEA and expert in post-adoption contact, who will be joined by speakers with lived experience.

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This year the theme of National Adoption Week is maintaining relationships in adoption. We are running three webinars to reflect this. Our second webinar will examine what part do relationships play in the operation of our children’s social care services. Delivered by Daniel Foster, Head of Policy & Engagement from the Department for Education and Dr John Simmonds OBE, Director of Policy, Research and Development at CoramBAAF.

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Professionals working across the family justice system have long been aware that mothers and fathers experiencing repeat involvement in care proceedings is routine rather than exceptional. Since 2020, Research in Practice and Centre for Child and Family Justice at Lancaster University, co-funded by the Segelman Trust, have been convening and facilitating a Community of Practice for the growing number of specialist services working with these parents. This session will share some of the learning from the research studies and the Community of Practice.

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This year the theme of National Adoption Week is maintaining relationships in adoption. We are running three webinars to reflect this. Our final webinar will explore Early Permanence - learning from the experience of RAAs, VAAs, adopters and birth families. Presented by Mike Hall, Project Manager with the Regional Adoption Agencies Strategic Team.

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Coram evaluators carried out the UK’s first and the world’s largest ever Randomised Control Trial of the use of Family Group Conferencing at pre-proceedings stage. In this webinar you will learn about this important research and its implications. Presented by Emily Blackshaw, Lead Quantitative Analyst, Impact and Evaluation at Coram and Karen Brown Chief Operating Officer at Daybreak.

This guide has been written to help social workers understand the process for completing the Placement Plan and how it links to the Care Plan, and the health and education plans required by the Care Planning, Placements and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010.

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In collaboration with Proud 2B Parents. This essential and exciting webinar will give an overview of Proud 2B Parents, together with lived experiences. There will also be a Q&A session for attendees to put their questions.

The open course will help to increase the understanding of the supervisory requirements of supervising social workers, in line with fostering legislation. It will look at roles and responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children and young people and how foster carers can be supported and developed in their role.

This open course aims to give new and recently appointed fostering and adoption panel members an opportunity to develop their role as effective panel members and to consider the tasks and responsibilities involved. This will be within the context of the current legislative framework and emerging messages from research.

Fostering and adoption/permanency panel work is challenging to all concerned in the process. This course is intended to share issues, dilemmas and best practice.