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2008
2009
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September 2008
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03/09/08 | Leeds | Induction for New Panel Members
Fostering: morning, Adoption: afternoon
One day workshop
This workshop will give an overview of panels’ legal and regulatory framework, outline relevant research, address dilemmas and difficult issues in panel work, and share good practice in working with other panel members and applicants. It will also help your agency fulfill its training requirements for OFSTED inspection.
For full details and booking form open the Word file or PDF file
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04–05/09/08
FULLY BOOKED | Manchester | Assessing Foster Carers
Two day workshop
This workshop will explore different models of assessment, the nature of the assessment relationship we create, and the process. It will also help participants and their agencies meet the national minimum standards.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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08/09/08 | Newcastle | Allegations Against Foster Carers
One day workshop
This workshop will address such questions as; What is the difference between a complaint, a concern and an allegation? It will be of interest to fostering social workers and managers, and members of fostering panels.
For full details and booking form open the Word file or PDF file
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08/09/08 | Liverpool | Fostering: Recipes for Success
Conference
This is advance notice of a forthcoming conference which will celebrate the accumulated knowledge, talent and commitment of foster carers and their agencies. It will give you the opportunity to hear about exciting work that enhances foster carers’ skills, so they can help children heal, enjoy and achieve in life.
For full details and booking form open the Word file or PDF file
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10/09/08 | Birmingham | Practical Attachment Course
One day workshop
A workshop with the option of attending a further 3 study days which is designed to support family placement workers, link workers and children’s social workers who support children with complex needs and their carers.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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12/09/08 | Birmingham | Panel Administrators – Their role in Adoption & Fostering Panels
One day workshop
This workshop will cover the entire panel process and give an overview of the legal and regulatory framework surrounding panel work.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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29/09/08 | Leeds | Children relinquished for adoption – law and practice in making adoptive placements with consent (or agreement, if under six weeks)
Evening Seminar
It will look at law and practice in their placement for adoption and adoption – the role and duties of adoption panels, IROs, and CAFCASS officers, including a discussion of case law about adoption agency responsibilities towards birth fathers without parental responsibility and birth relatives.
For full details and booking form open the Word file or PDF file
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October 2008
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01-03/10/08 | Birmingham | Training the trainers
Three day workshop
This three-day course is specifically designed for family placement specialists who are involved in the preparation and training of foster carers and adoptive parents both before and after approval. It is recognized by the inspection bodies as meeting the post-qualifying training requirement of the national minimum standards in adoption and fostering
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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13/10/08 | Leeds | Contact
One day workshop
Contact is often a hotly argued issue during care proceedings. As children settle into permanent placements, there can be very divergent views about the purpose, format and frequency of contact.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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14/10/08
FULLY BOOKED | Leeds | Legal Advisors to Adoption & Permanence Panels
One day workshop
This workshop willl look at guidance on the duties of the legal advisors to adoption agencies and panels. There will also be an opportunity to address dilemmas and share good practice.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF
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20/10/08 | Liverpool | Siblings – Together or Apart?
One day workshop
This workshop will look at decisions made about permanent placement of siblings and the lifelong consequences of this. It will also cover research, assessment and good practice.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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November 2008
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07/11/08 | Birmingham | Allegations Against Foster Carers
One day workshop
Allegations against foster carers produce tremendous anxiety for all concerned. Even when not substantiated, the experience can cause foster carers to resign. Investigations can be extremely complex and delicate, involving several different agencies
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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10-11/11/08 | Newcastle | Assessing Foster Carers
Two day workshop
This course will help participants and their agencies meet the national minimum standards.
For full details and booking form open the Word file or PDF file
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11/11/08 | Leeds | Disruption and permanent Placements
One day workshop
The disrupting of a permanent placement, be it adoption or fostering, is a devastating life event for children, which may have long-term consequences for their emotional welfare and life chances.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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19/11/08 | Birmingham | Communicating with Children and Life Story Work
One day workshop
This workshop will explore how direct work with children can help them understand and integrate their past, make sense of the present, and develop a clearer self-identity for the future.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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24/11/08 | Newcastle | Panel Administrators
One day workshop
This workshop will cover the entire panel process and give an overview of the legal and regulatory framework surrounding panel work.
For full details and booking form open the Word file or PDF file
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December 2008
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12/12/08 | Birmingham | Professional Advisers to Adoption Panels
One day workshop
This workshop will help panel advisors look at how they quality assure the work of panel, appraise performance and feedback issues.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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02-03/12/08 | North West | Communicating with Children and Life Story Work
Two day workshop
This workshop will explore how direct work with children can help them understand and integrate their past, make sense of the present and develop a clearer self-identity for the future.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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03/12/08 | Leeds | Allegations Against Foster Carers
One day workshop
This workshop will address such questions as; What is the difference between a complaint, a concern and an allegation? It will be of interest to fostering social workers and managers, and members of fostering panels.
For full details and booking form open the Word file or PDF file
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January 2009
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21–22/01/09 | Preston | Assessing Adopters
Two day workshop
This workshop will explore different models of assessment, the nature of the assessment relationship we create, and the process. It will also help participants and their agencies meet the national minimum standards.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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28/01/09 | North West | Independent Reviewing Officers and
the Effective Chairing of Meetings
One day workshop
This workshop will provide IROs with the opportunity to review their role and responsibilities in relation to chairing meetings effectively and to share best practice with colleagues from other agencies.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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30/01/09 | Birmingham | Panel Chairs and Vice Chairs – Their Role in Adoption and Fostering Agencies
One day workshop
This workshop will refresh participants’ legal/regulatory knowledge and share good practice in working with applicants, decision makers and panel advisors.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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February 2009
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02/02/09 | Blackburn | Contact
One day workshop
This workshop will consider the issues and dilemmas in planning and reviewing contact, give an overview of the research and weigh the perspectives of all parties involved.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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23/02/09 | Manchester | Disruption
One day workshop
This workshop will cover the theory and research around disruption, the building in protectors against disruption when making placements, helping children when disruptions happen and using disruption meetings to learn lessons and aid healing.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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26/02/09 | Birmingham | Assessing Foster Carers and Adopters
One day workshop
This workshop will explore different models of assessment, the nature of the assessment relationship we create, and the process.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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March 2009
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02–03/03/09 | Manchester | Attachment and Managing Difficult Behaviour
Two day workshop
This workshop will look at some of the problematic bevahiours children with attachment difficulties may present with and possible strategies to manage these.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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11/03/09 | North East | Neglect: responding effectively to safeguard children and young people
Seminar
Neglect presents huge challenges to services and professionals who have to make sense of it from the perspectives of the child, the parents, the legal system and the different professional contexts in which they work.
For full details on the seminar view the flier in Word or PDF.
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18–19/03/09 | Manchester | Assessing Foster Carers and Adopters
Two day workshop
This workshop will explore the different models of assessment, the nature of the assessment relationship we create, and the process. It will also help participants and their agencies to meet the national minimum standards.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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27/03/09 | Birmingham | Siblings – Together or Apart?
One day workshop
This workshop will cover research, assessment and good practice in this fascinating area.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.
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