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Engaging difficult to engage families

Increasingly staff are being required to work alongside and with individuals and families experiencing complex challenges as well as alongside and with other agencies. This requires an ability to engage with those who have/are difficult to engage.

This practical programme provides the skills to support workers to be able to be persistent and proactive in order to engage difficult to engage individuals and families. It is practical and “hands on” with a focus on skills and strategy development, backed up by an understanding of why approaches work. It produces more confident and competent practitioners who are ready to deliver positive and effective support to individuals and families.

Our training is based on our knowledge of working closely in Early Help, working with vulnerable and complex families, troubled families and social care staff.

It is suitable for front line staff working on the Early Help/Troubled families agenda as well as school staff, children services, those in early years settings, the VCS, Housing and Health.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand barriers to engagement.
  • Explore strategies to engage.
  • Understand the balance between support and challenge.
  • Explore worker resilience.
  • Working with partners to support engagement.
  • All courses are offered on a Face to Face or Virtual basis.
  • Bespoke & Open Training Courses Available.

Case Studies

  • Case Study Adoption UK

    Interface creates a new framework for Adoption UK so that services could be articulated clearly to stakeholders codifying existing services and identifying a delivery model that will support a new range of services within a wider profile of funding streams.
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  • LB Waltham Forest - Responding to Trauma and Parental Conflict

    We were delighted to deliver a large programme of training to staff across Early Help around Trauma and Parental Conflict. 

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  • Evaluation Cheshire and Merseyside Social Work Teaching Partnership

    We conducted an evaluation between December 2018 and January 2020 on the Teaching Partnership which was funded (by DfE and DHSC) to improve the quality of social work teaching and training.
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  • MOPAC Transitions to Adulthood Hub

    We were commissioned to co design, develop and deliver the delivery of staff training and to facilitate a programme of ongoing workforce development, including reflective practice sessions.
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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.

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