Working with Children and Families
Developing skills in working with children and their families is the foundation of effective safeguarding practice as well as promoting the positive development of children and young people in the local authority.
Courses
Follow the link below for aims and outcomes.
- Achieving Permanence – a modular approach
- Advanced Motivational Interviewing – 1 day
- Chairing Difficult Meetings – 1 day
- Direct work with children: an introduction – 1 day
- Direct work with children: Hearing the voice of the child – 2 days
- Effective and timely decision-making when children are on the edge of care – 1 day seminar series
- Legislation and regulation updates for staff working with Looked After and Adopted children – 1 day
- Life Story Work
- Managing Transitions for Children and Young People – 1 day
- Motivational Interviewing – 2 days
- Working With Adolescents
- Working with Fathers and Other Significant Males – 1 day
- Working with Parents and Carers: Positive Parenting – 1 day
- Working with Troubled Families – Lead Worker Skills – 1 day
- Managing behaviour positively with Disabled Children and Young People – 1 day
- Managing Behaviour Positively with Children and Young People who have Autistic Spectrum Disorders