Our monthly Exploring Expertise webinars give practitioners the opportunity to hear from leading figures in practice and research on innovative developments and examples of 'best practice' in the family placement sector. Presentations include Q&A sessions to enable attendees to delve deeper into the subject matter and explore connections to their own practice.
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Exploring Expertise: The ICO’s “Better Records Together” Campaign and Research on Improving Access to Care Records
12 May 2026 | 11.30am - 1.00pm | Online
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Better Records Together campaign responds to evidence that many care-experienced people face significant barriers when trying to access their care records, including long delays, poor communication, and excessive or unexplained redactions. The campaign emphasises the importance of person-centred, trauma-informed approaches that recognise the role care records play in helping people understand their identity, life history and experiences in care.
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Members can watch our webinar recordings from the previous 12 months below or head over to our YouTube channel to view earlier ones
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Exploring Practice: Creating simple digital tools to support kinship families
In partnership with St Mary’s University, Surrey Virtual School and Achieving for Children Virtual School launched a research project to explore the educational barriers faced by children in kinship care. Through interviews, surveys and training with school staff, the project assessed awareness and understanding of kinship care in education settings. It also engaged directly with kinship carers to identify their needs and priorities.
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EDI Exploring Expertise: Accountability, allyship and Anti-Racist Practice
We are delighted to be working alongside the Racial Justice Family Network to bring together a panel of experts for a conversation on what anti-racist practice looks like in day-to-day practice, the tools that support its implementation, and the pathways toward a more fair and equitable system for all children, young people and families.
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Exploring Expertise: Keeping children in care connected to their cultures - Key messages from international and national research- informed practice
A positive sense of cultural identity is critical to wellbeing, yet children in out-of-home care often lose their cultural identities and connections. There is little evidence to guide out-of-home care agencies to support culturally meaningful foster care. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, includes the right of children to maintain connections with family, community, and culture. For many international countries including Australia the focus has been on responding to supporting First Nations children reconnect to their family, country and culture.
Watch hereExploring Expertise: Weekend Fostering - a new approach to building lasting relationships with children in care
Watch hereExploring Expertise: FASD - Supporting children and families through research-informed research
Watch hereExploring Expertise: Learning from evidence on Parenting Through Adversity for parents of babies and children 0-10
Watch hereExploring Expertise: Lifelong Links - creating lasting support networks for children in care
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The recordings of our Exploring Expertise and Learning from Research webinars are available to members only for 12 months after publishing. After this time period they are uploaded to our YouTube channel to be available to all.