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Part three of our Lunch & Learn series in collaboration with Adoption England. The Nuffield-funded Expressions of Self research project aimed to listen to minoritised looked-after children and young people’s narratives on ethnicity, religion and identity, to inform policy and practice about their needs. In this session, we will use young people’s stories of identity and negotiating their identity to showcase learnings for frontline social workers. We will explore the different kinds of impact that their identities can have on young people’s journeys through care. Our presenters are Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Kusha Anand (PhD) and Assistant Professor Alison Halford of Coventry University.

FREE EVENT
The presentation will use data from the Bright Spots Programme, a joint partnership between Coram Voice and the University of Oxford, funded by the Hadley Trust. This session examines the views of over 1,200 children (4-10yrs) and young people (11-18yrs) in kinship foster care in 38 local authorities comparing their well-being indicators with those in unrelated foster care. Our presenters are Julie Selwyn, Professor of Education and Adoption Rees Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford, and Linda Briheim, Head of Policy and Practice Development at Coram Voice.

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Help to safeguard vital information and improve the culture, processes and experience of all involved in developing and receiving records by contributing to forthcoming guidance on managing the records of care-experienced and adopted people in England and Wales. This participatory session will shape forthcoming best practice guidance for managing care-experienced and adopted people’s records in England and Wales. Sarah Wickham is a consultant information manager and archivist. She has worked in the public and private sector over her 30-year career. With Kevin Bolton, Sarah is delivering this project for the Chief Archivists In Local Government Group (CALGG) of the Archives and Records Association.

Panel advisors have a complex role in managing the relationship between the agency and the panel, quality assuring and feeding back to all involved in panel work. This open course will enable panel advisors to examine this 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. Case scenarios, group work and practice application will provide opportunities for panel advisors to address shared dilemmas and good practice.

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.

Foster carers are increasingly being asked to care for a parent and their child during care proceedings, and to contribute towards the assessment of parenting capacity. This type of arrangement is complex, involving different tasks and responsibilities.

This two-day open course 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. This workshop may also provide a refresher for those wanting to reflect and build on knowledge skills and best practice in the completion of fostering assessments.

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This essential and exciting webinar gave an overview of Micro-aggressions which are subtle forms of discrimination that are often unintentional but can have a significant impact on the well-being of individuals. Presented by Charlotte Andrew, Proud 2B Parents with a panel of foster carers and adopters.

This half day course is aimed at professionals who work with children and families who may benefit from a therapeutic intervention and would like to increase their understanding of different therapeutic approaches.

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.