Advanced Assessment skills
Good quality assessments are fundamental to protecting children and supporting families. We need to be able to gather information, make sense of it and use it to create effective plans. This requires us to utilise a range of questioning and thinking skills for different purposes. It also requires us to use research and to analyse the information in a robust way to make sense of the story.
This course is for professionals working with children and families. We will explore, through presentations, discussions and case studies a range of advanced skills to enhance decision-making. Course content includes:
- Gathering information – the concept of the story
- The need for humble curiosity in relationship-based practice
- Understanding the different thinking styles and their application to practice
- Recognising evidence, difference, grey areas and missing information in the assessment process
- Understanding colliding or nurturing biographies; cumulative and interacting risks and strengths
- The top 5 questions for all assessments
- Using hypothesis types to reduce assumptions and error
- How to undertake thematic analysis of lived lives stories
- Analysing themes: strengths, risks; patterns, trends, time and impact
- Tools to guide a range of practice decisions
- All courses are offered on a Face to Face or Virtual basis.
- Bespoke & Open Training Courses Available.
Case Studies
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Brighton & Hove, Baby, Child and Teenage Brain development and the Effects of Poverty, Neglect and Poor Parenting
Following the success and positive feedback from an earlier group Brighton and Hove booked a follow 2 days training for multi-agency staff.Read More -
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MOPAC - Transitions to Adulthood Training
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) were looking for a training provider to develop and deliver a programme of staff training and ongoing workforce development for all staff working in the Transitions to Adulthood Hub,Read More -
Gwynedd Council, Baby, Child and Teenage Brain development and the Effects of Poverty, Neglect and Poor Parenting
Gwynedd commissioned Interface to deliver an in-house one day course to multi agency staffRead More
Cancellation Policy
We are very flexible and will do our utmost to rearrange training should the need arise, but our trainers obviously commit themselves to the training days agreed and so if you need to cancel at short notice we will need to charge a cancellation fee to cover their time.
Please see our cancellation terms / fees.