Events archive

IN-PERSON EVENT
We are delighted to announce our post-adoption support conference on 11 March 2024 at the Coram Campus. This conference is an opportunity for all professionals working within adoption to share practice, listen to contemporary research, and discuss the pathways toward a better future for all adopted children and their families.

Foster carers are susceptible to allegations and/or complaints which will impact on the whole fostering household and their future as care givers. How should we as a profession respond to these situations in a sensitive, timely manner, whilst giving due regard to the safeguarding of children as well as the needs of carers and their household? This open course will address the process for distinguishing standards of care concerns from allegations or complaints, with opportunities to share good practice in recruiting, reviewing and supporting foster carers.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
Attachment is among the core theories for social work with children and families. Yet there remain considerable debates about what practitioners need to know about attachment, in part because outdated ideas about attachment still hold considerable power. In this webinar, we draw on a consultation with the international attachment research community to propose an updating of the curriculum, incorporating the key consensus findings of contemporary research. Our speakers are Prof. Robbie Duschinsky and Dr. Sarah Foster

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. Foster carers, kinship carers and adoptive parents who are considering different options for therapeutic support may also benefit from this training.

The role of the panel administrator is a multidimensional one. Effective adoption and fostering panels are crucial to the delivery of a good adoption and fostering service, and the provision of services for looked after children. 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 open course will enable adoption and fostering panel administrators to examine related legislation and share best practice though group discussion and practice application.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
Why are care-experienced children and young people over criminalised, and how can we better support them? This session explores the reasons behind the unnecessary criminilisation of vulnerable young people and how a joined up approach from Social workers, foster carers, kinship carers, lawyers and advocates can help end it. We will be hearing from Dr. Laura Janes and Kate-Aubrey Johnson who produced the dare to care guide as well as Will Kerridge from Drive Forward Foundation. Joining our panel will be care-experienced campaigners from the Drive Forward Policy Forum.

OPEN TO ALL
Safer internet day is a global initiative to promote safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Join CoramBAAF adoption consultant, Jane Poore, and, Dr. Vicki Walker, for a discussion on the complexities of safeguarding in the digital world and what this could mean for social work practitioners in the children and families sector. We will be looking at the resources provided by UK safer Internet, begin to look at the challenges particular to Looked after children, and look at our plans for forthcoming materials.

This course provides supervising social workers the opportunity to develop their practice and confidence in these areas. It will include a review their role and responsibilities in relation to foster carers and promote the development of best practice.

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.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
The first-ever National Kinship Care Strategy has been published. This session aims to explore the implications of the strategy on social work with kinship families and the impact it has on local authority planning, practice and workforce. Panel event.