CoramBAAF is a leading provider of specialist training for social work managers, practitioners, adopters, foster carers and all the professionals associated with child care in England. We also deliver learning and training through partnership arrangements in Northern Ireland and Wales. We offer workshops, bespoke training packages, consultancy work and conferences.
| Leeds
This workshop will enable panel advisors to examine their 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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| Leeds
Based on the very latest guidance and research, this workshop will explore the issues and dilemmas faced by decision makers in adoption and fostering agencies and provide useful templates for self-audit and future decision making.
Book now| Antrim
This workshop will increase participants' confidence through exploring good practice in recruitment, assessment and support of LGBT foster carers and adopters.
Book now| London
This two-day workshop will provide practitioners and particularly those who may be new to undertaking, quality assuring or considering fostering assessments with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and practice in completing fostering assessments.
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| Birmingham
This conference will reflect the rich, varied, confusing and demanding world of working with the unique children that are in care or have been adopted. It will integrate themes from policy, practice and research.
The process of health assessment and health planning requires practitioners to consider many different components: the child's health history; their in utero and early experiences; family history; their development; and lifestyle factors. Key topics covered will include: substance misuse in pregnancy; genetics; gender identity; communication needs; mental health; and wellbeing.
| Newcastle
A FREE WORKSHOP FOR CORAMBAAF FULL MEMBER AGENCIES ONLY (LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ADOPTION AGENCIES AND INDEPENDENT FOSTERING PROVIDERS) IN ENGLAND, WALES, NORTHERN IRELAND AND IRELAND.
The Secure Base Model devised by Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (UEA) focuses on the interactions that occur between caregivers and children, through the provision of a positive framework for therapeutic caregiving, which helps infants, children and young people to move towards greater security and builds resilience.
| Leeds
Supervising social workers have a specific role in supporting and monitoring the health and well-being of the carers they are working with alongside the assessment of risk and safeguarding of children placed with them. This workshop provides those supporting foster carers with the opportunity to consider the assessment of foster carers and the support they provide to them within this context as well as the implications for themselves as caring practitioners.
Book now| London
This two-day workshop will provide practitioners and particularly those who may be new to undertaking adoption assessments with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and practice in completing adoption assessments.
Book now| Birmingham
This workshop 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.
Book now| Birmingham
The role of the panel administrator is a multidimensional one. The efficient administration of panels, including the provision of clear and accurate minutes, is a skilled and complex task that is essential to the smooth and effective operation of panels. This workshop will enable adoption and fostering panel administrators to examine related legislation and share best practice though group discussion and practice application.
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