Training & events programme

This open course will explore issues and dilemmas in the Agency Decision Maker (ADM) role and provide a useful basis for self-audit and future decision making. It will be co-facilitated by a legal adviser, giving you the opportunity pose questions for some of the challenges you face as Agency Decision Maker. Please note this session is for those considering Best Interest Decisions for children as part of the care planning process.

This course is an opportunity to delve deeper into how to write analytical and evidence-based assessments of any kind.

This open course will explore issues and dilemmas in the Agency Decision Maker (ADM) role and provide a useful basis for self-audit and future decision making. It will be co-facilitated by a legal adviser, giving you the opportunity pose questions for some of the challenges you face as Agency Decision Maker. Please note this session is for those considering adopter approvals.

In this session, Sarah Lloyd, Author of the Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems (BUSS®) will give a brief overview of the model. Dr Helen Close, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University will talk about the evaluation they undertook, examining outcomes for 468 families who went through the model. We’ll also hear from a parent who has been through the model with their daughter, and the impact this has had on their lives. Information will be given about what the intervention involves and how local authorities, regional adoption agencies and other services can provide or help families to access it.

Panel advisers 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.

CoramBAAF and the Archives and Records Association (ARA), with funding from the Department for Education, are developing a new online platform designed to help adopted and care-experienced people locate records relating to their adoption and time in care. Join this short briefing session for an introduction to the platform. We'll provide an overview of its key features, demonstrate how it works, outline plans for further development, and explain how stakeholders can help shape the final resource ahead of its full launch.

This course is an opportunity to explore the unique context of kinship care and assessment of prospective kinship carers. Participants will explore professional and personal values and gain knowledge of what constitutes a robust kinship assessment within the legal and regulatory framework. The course will consider different assessment tools that can be used in kinship assessment practice, triangulation of information and effective support planning.

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. This workshop may also provide a refresher for those wanting to reflect and build on knowledge skills and best practice in the completion of fostering assessments.

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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.

Join colleagues from across the fostering sector for one of two regional forums focused on foster carer recruitment and retention.
These events will explore the findings of Fostering New Futures, Coram's latest research into the factors that influence people's willingness and propensity to foster. Alongside an overview of the research, participants will have the opportunity to consider what the findings mean for their own area and how they can be translated into effective recruitment and retention strategies.
The forums are designed for fostering leaders, managers, practitioners, recruitment professionals and others with responsibility for attracting, supporting and retaining foster carers.