Chairing Meetings

Course Aim:

To provide staff with an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in chairing child care meetings, including looked after reviews and child protection conferences.

Course outcomes: 

Participants will be offered the opportunity to:

• Explain how groups form and function
• Have learned techniques to improve their chairing skills and know how to manage meetings well
• Consider how local approaches affect meetings (e.g. sos, tip etc)
• Explore how digital/hybrid working effects meetings- for chairs, delegates and families
• Understand the importance of managing: people, process, emotions and behaviours
• Promote active involvement and participation by all stakeholders including where appropriate, the child
• Examined their own strengths, transferrable skills and areas of difficulty in meetings
• Have explored how and when to intervene in different and difficult situations
• Have examined a tool to aid chairing and minute taking at the same time
• Understand the stages, power and dynamics in meetings and know about ‘group think’
• Recognise the need to analyse, synthesise information and produce outcome focussed plans.