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The roles & responsibilities of supervising social workers in supporting foster carers

10 Jun 2019 | Leeds

Supervising social workers have a specific role in supporting and monitoring the health and well-being of the carers they are working with alongside the assessment of risk and safeguarding of children placed with them. This workshop provides those supporting foster carers with the opportunity to consider the assessment of foster carers and the support they provide to them within this context as well as the implications for themselves as caring practitioners.

Panel administrators: Their role and responsibilities for fostering and permanency panels

27 Jun 2019 | Birmingham

This workshop will enable adoption and fostering panel administrators to examine related legislation and share best practice though group discussion and practice application.

Working together to improve outcomes for looked after and adopted children - CoramBAAF Health Group conference

1 Jul 2019 | Birmingham

CoramBAAF's one-day Health Group conference provides an opportunity to reflect on outcomes-based practice. Achieving positive outcomes requires planning, provision of care and commitment from multiple partners / agencies. During this conference we will look at how different parts of the health, legal, education and social care system evaluate outcomes. We will explore how combined efforts and interactions are key in a whole system approach and reflect on the multiple factors that affect outcomes for looked after and adopted children.

Making good fostering assessments - two day workshop

4 Jul 2019 | London

This two-day workshop 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.

An introduction to the Secure Base Model - July 2019

16 Jul 2019 | London

A FREE WORKSHOP FOR CORAMBAAF FULL MEMBER AGENCIES ONLY (LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ADOPTION AGENCIES AND INDEPENDENT FOSTERING PROVIDERS) IN ENGLAND, WALES, NORTHERN IRELAND AND IRELAND. ONE ALLOCATED PLACE PER AGENCY (MAXIMUM 20 AVAILABLE PLACES PER WORKSHOP), ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. BOOKING ESSENTIAL. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS (TEA, COFFEE, BISCUITS) WILL BE PROVIDED. ALL ATTENDEES MUST BE IN CURRENT MEMBERSHIP OF CORAMBAAF ON THE DATE OF THE WORKSHOP.

Based on the very latest guidance and research, this workshop will explore the issues and dilemmas faced by decision makers in adoption and fostering agencies and provide useful templates for self-audit and future decision making.

Developing quality assurance in fostering & adoption assessments

19 Sep 2019 | London

Delivering a quality service requires a systematic and disciplined approach. Ongoing and periodic assessments require comprehensive monitoring processes and procedures. These in turn provide assurance that the processes in place are working effectively to measure outcomes for children and young people and meet legislative requirements. This workshop considers participants' roles and responsibilities in quality assurance and how the desired outcomes and requirements may be achieved.

Life story work: Enhancing confidence in direct work with children and the creation of good quality life books

20 Sep 2019 | London

This workshop will enable participants to explore best practice in the facilitation of ongoing life story work which will enable children’s and young people’s understanding of their past, acceptance of their present and hopefulness about the future.

Panel advisors: Their role and responsibilities for fostering and permanency panels

24 Sep 2019 | Birmingham

This workshop will enable panel advisors to examine their 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.

Making good fostering assessments - two day workshop

24 Sep 2019 |

This two-day workshop 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.