Training & events programme

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 SGO academic research field in England and Wales lags significantly behind that of foster care and adoption. In this session, we will be joined by Julie Young who will be sharing her recent research which addresses this significant research gap around young people’s voices and the growing need to understand, as well as support, the experience of young people with SGOs.

The purpose of this open course is to give participants an opportunity to consider what good practice in assessing adult relationships is, exploring their own values and assumptions and to consider the importance of attachment styles; motivation; sex and sexuality; and loss and infertility.

OPEN TO ALL
CoramBAAF is excited to publish the updated Child Permanence Report. The Child Permanence Report and accompanying guidance has been developed by CoramBAAF alongside a working group of practitioners, including children’s social workers, family finders, panel chairs, advisers and adopters. In this session we will be looking at the key objectives of the CPR, the development work and what's new in the updated form.

The secure base model is a strengths-based framework for therapeutic caregiving informed by developments and research into attachment theory and child placement. It focuses on the interactions between a child and their caregiver that can support a child to experience greater security and build resilience.

Been a medical advisor in the UK a while ? Already attended our child and adult health assessment workshops previously?
Feeling like you’re not sure what’s going on outside your patch? Wanting to learn from others in your role?
Then the Medical Advisor Update day is for you!

OPEN TO ALL
CoramBAAF is excited to publish the updated Child Permanence Report. The Child Permanence Report and accompanying guidance has been developed by CoramBAAF alongside a working group of practitioners, including children’s social workers, family finders, panel chairs, advisers and adopters. In this session we will be looking at the key objectives of the CPR, the development work and what's new in the updated form.

The responsibilities of a Chair can be considerable. Whereas some duties may be clearly outlined in related practice guidance along with the qualities that ensure effective chairing, not all Chair responsibilities are so helpfully detailed or provided. This workshop will explore general planning for and facilitation of panels and complex meetings in the children’s sector. It will explore time management and group facilitation whilst holding the child at the centre of thinking, recommendations and decision making. It will enable Chairs of meetings to consider good practice and approaches to effectively managing the flow of information, summarising and the formation of key action plans.

This course is designed to support those who have previously attended “The role of the supervising social worker in supervising and supporting foster carers” and now looking to develop their practice further.
On this course you will explore how good quality, challenging supervision can contribute to a high quality of care provided by foster and kinship carers and to establishing and maintaining effective working relationships. We will explore the balancing the potentially conflicting role of the supervising social worker, who needs to balance providing support with the need to sometimes have difficult conversations too.

OPEN TO ALL
This short briefing session is part of our Forms England release and sits alongside our recent event and launch on the Child's Permanence Report (CPR) England: Briefing session. Whether you are a prospective adopter, foster carer, social worker, policymaker or academic we invite you to engage with the AFDiT framework both personally and professionally. AFDiT is about how we ALL are and how we then behave in the context of transracial adoption.