Browse training by country or region

> Adoption assessment: revised BAAF Form F
> Assessment skills for social workers new to family placement teams
> Birth children in foster and adoptive families: involvement in assessment
> Building identity

> Fostering changes: how to improve relationships and manage difficult behaviour
> Learn the child
> Safer caring
> Transitions and endings
> Trauma and recovery

22/01/09

Lisburn

Adoption assessment: revised BAAF Form F
One day workshop

A revised version of BAAF Form F (Adoption) is currently being introduced in England and Wales and will be introduced in Northern Ireland and Scotland (with region specific guidance) in the summer of 2008. This workshop will explore the changes to the assessment report and the implications for gathering evidence and presenting information to panel on prospective adopters.
For more information contact the Northern Ireland office on 028 9031 5494, fax 028 9031 4516 or email northern.ireland@baaf.org.uk

02/12/08

Belfast

Assessment skills for social workers new to family placement teams
One day workshop

Sound and relevant assessment is the vital basis for successful family placements of looked after children. This workshop will explore different models of assessment. Participants will identify ways of gathering evidence to demonstrate competence and consider how to present evidence to panels.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.

12/11/08

Antrim

Birth children in foster and adoptive families: involvement in assessment
One day workshop

The needs of existing children in families who foster or adopt are an important consideration in the assessment process. The workshop will explore the existing tools to aid the process as well as provide the opportunity to practice child friendly techniques for engaging children in order to establish their views and plan for their needs in the approval of carers and the matching process.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.

04/11/08

Belfast

Building identity
One day workshop

The workshop will explore this new training resource, focusing on issues of identity and stability for looked after children and ways of helping these children make sense of their lives. Topics include identity and child development; life story work; family ties and contact.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.

20/11/08

Cookstown

Fostering assessment: revised BAAF Form F
One day workshop

A revised version of BAAF Form F (Fostering) is currently being introduced in England and Wales and will be introduced in Northern Ireland and Scotland (with region specific guidance) in the summer of 2008. This workshop will explore the changes to the assessment report and the implications for gathering evidence and presenting information to panel on prospective foster carers.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.

22/10/08

Belfast

Learn the child
One day workshop

This workshop will explore the resource pack “Helping looked after children to learn”. This training course explores how the long term effects of trauma in childhood affect learning and how carers and teachers can help looked after children derive full benefit from their life at school.
This workshop will also be of value to teachers and education welfare officers who wish to extend their knowledge and skills in relation to Looked after Children.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.

10/10/08

Belfast

Safer caring
One day workshop

Foster caring is not a safe profession. It involves risks. Safer caring involves assessing and managing the complex risks that face children, foster carers and their families. This workshop will explore this two part training programme for foster carers: Caring for the carers and Protective foster care.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.

28/10/08

Lisburn

Transitions and endings
One day workshop

The workshop will explore this new training programme, identifying ways to help foster carers and the children in their care to face the change and loss of the child moving to other carers or to adopters in a managed and constructive way, without this becoming a destructive and damaging ending.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.

16/10/08

Lisburn

Trauma and recovery
One day workshop

This workshop will explore the 3 part training programme for foster carers: Trauma, resilience and healing. The course is designed to enable foster carers and adoptive parents to help children adapt to developmental impairments caused by trauma, build resilience and provide an environment that will enhance recovery.
For full details on the workshop itinerary view the flier in Word or PDF.