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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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The aim of this course is for participants to increase their knowledge and develop confidence in discussing some aspects of neurodiversity including Autism, Dyslexia and ADHD. Key questions we will ask on the course are ‘What is neurodiversity?’ and ‘How can we work more effectively with neurodivergent children and young people?’.

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This webinar will explore this study to examine the characteristics of children placed with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adopters, and to examine children’s problem behaviours and positive psychosocial adjustment across the three family types.

A two half day training. In this training Dr Chris Burke, Clinical Psychologist, and Sally Wassell, Child Care Consultant, teach attendees how to use the Safe and Meaningful Contact (SaMC) Guidelines to make evidence-based decisions and recommendations about contact arrangements.

FREE EVENT
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.

FREE EVENT
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.

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.

This course is aimed at social care professionals who are engaged in the assessment of prospective adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers and who wish to increase their awareness and confidence in considering gender issues in assessment, analysis and decision making. 

Cohort 2 - Autumn 2022

The course will demonstrate how objects can be used as an accessible tool to evoke, release and relieve emotions, how objects can become a safe home for these feelings, and how a focus on objects can free the imagination and promote creative practices and relationships.

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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'.