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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 course will consider the foster carer's key role in providing parent and child arrangements and ensuring successful outcomes for children.

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.

The open course will help to increase the understanding of the supervisory requirements of supervising social workers, in line with fostering legislation. It will look at roles and responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children and young people and how foster carers can be supported and developed in their role.

This event will give workers attending an overview of the key points of learning from research. It will also provide an opportunity to reflect on changes to be made to reduce the risk of significant harm to looked after children, those living with special guardians and adopted children.

This course will explore the support needs of special guardianship families, how to carry out assessment of support needs which are sensitive to the needs of kinship care families, and the how these needs may be most effectively met.

This course will explore; best practice, regulation and practice guidance, assessments, eligibility criteria and access to therapeutic support services, the impact of early trauma, identity issues, and the benefits and challenges of contact.

FREE EVENT
This year the theme of National Adoption Week is maintaining relationships in adoption. We are running three webinars to reflect this. Our final webinar will explore Early Permanence - learning from the experience of RAAs, VAAs, adopters and birth families. Presented by Mike Hall, Project Manager with the Regional Adoption Agencies Strategic Team.

FREE FOR MEMBERS
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.