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This open course will provide tools to improve practice in assessing and planning for separated and unaccompanied children and young people and concentrates on developing practice around the statutory assessment and planning processes, including core assessment, needs assessment, pathway planning and care planning for looked after children and young people.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
A framework for achieving safe and meaningful contact: trauma responsive decision-making about contact arrangements for children and young people no longer living with their birth parents.

Co-ordination, Cooperation and Learning - the experience of delivering a service with partnership in mind. The first of our series of 'Learning from Research Webinars'. Free for members.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
Using the UEA Moving to Adoption model - a social work practice framework to help children move from foster care to adoption.

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.

This course will demonstrate how objects can 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. 

FREE FOR MEMBERS
This session will be presented by Sarah and parent mentors from the BUSS team. Sarah Lloyd is a Specialist Children's Occupational Therapist, Play Therapist and Author of the BUSS Model – BUSS - Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems in children who have experienced developmental trauma. Sarah has published two books: Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatised Children (2016) and Building Sensorimotor Systems in Children with Developmental Trauma (2020).

FREE EVENT
This webinar will provide an opportunity to explore an evidence based early intervention for adoptive parents and their children. The intervention was created in the Netherlands with a strong evidence base for its impact and effectiveness.

FREE TO MEMBERS
This session will be presented by birth mum Laura, and adoptive mum Peggy. Together they have written and recorded a blog and a ten part podcast, in which they share their adoption journey; of how, in doing the best for their two boys, they went from strangers to friends.

In this webinar Ruth Copson and Anne Murphy from the University of East Anglia will report on the findings of two studies undertaken during the first period of lockdown in 2020, looking at the impact of social distancing on children’s contact with their birth families, and on planning for moves to adoptive placements.