Courses
Our courses are designed to promote understanding of best practice, to develop day-to-day skills and to improve professional judgement.
- Listening, Understanding, Challenging and Helping: Interviewing in Social Work. The ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with parents and family members is crucial in social work with children and families. This 2-day course allows participants to practise active listening, achieving understanding and developing plans of actions.
- Developing Your Analytical Skills when Working with Children and Families. This 2-day course helps participants organise information and understand its significance. By the end of the course, participants should be able to demonstrate increased competence in assessing risk and in forming justifiable conclusions.
Working with the Integrated Children's System: Understanding the Social Work Task. This is a 1-day course which concentrates on the social work processes which underpin the Integrated Children's System. Participants are guided through the requirements of the Assessment Framework, Working Together and Looked After Children processes. The course also explains the functions of ICS exemplars.
Planning for Permanence. This 2-day course improves participants' awareness of the range of permanence options for children. By the end of the course, participants should be able to demonstrate understanding of timely care planning. The course also introduces different ways of helping prepare children to live apart from their birth parents.
Making Supervision Count: Case Supervision and Staff Development. This course is for first line managers, particularly those who are new to staff supervision. This 2-day course helps supervisors understand the multi-purpose nature of supervision in social work with children and families. Participants have the opportunity to practise giving and receiving feedback in the contexts both of casework supervision and of staff development.
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