Open Training

Convenient and easy to sign up to, see our stimulating courses below. If you can't make the open courses talk to us and we can bring these to you in house. Our open courses will benefit:

• Providers who have only a few delegates requiring training e.g. new or developing staff
• Those who value the opportunity to network with others in the same field
• Individuals purchasing training independently e.g. considering working in a new field or looking for career progression
• Those keen on maintaining their Continuing Professional Development

In view of current government restrictions all courses are currently being offered on a virtual basis only.

We are running open courses throughout 2021, as follows:

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's): Cost £150 + vat per learner

Early childhood experiences have lasting, measurable consequences later in life, we therefore need to foster emotional well-being from the earliest stages of life, enhancing resilience and the importance of relationships. This will build solid foundations for overall health and well-being. 

We have designed a course to provide knowledge and understanding to those professionals working with families and individuals of the impact that adversity, complexity and trauma can have on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people.

The course will offer practical strategies and suggested resources which can be used to help support children, young people and their families.

See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

C- Change - Capacity to Change: Cost £285 + vat per learner

C-Change is a flexible approach to assessing parents’ capacities to change developed by the University of Bristol. It focuses specifically on parental capacity to change, with the aim of improving practitioner skills, providing a framework and better informing planning and decision-making.

The programme will be delivered across 2 live virtual online facilitated sessions each comprised of a number of activities involving a range of learning approaches, some self-directed, some facilitated. The training will focus on the following and includes a comprehensive manual and tools.

• Context
• Working to Children’s Timescales
• Exploring barriers and facilitators of change
• Using Structured methods
• Assessing actual change
• Views of other professionals
• Children’s experiences of change
• Analysing and concluding

See more on this course and its training outcomes here.

Coaching - Level 6 Certificate:  Cost £2,500* + vat per learner

This course will develop knowledge, understanding and skills in coaching so that it can be used effectively with a wide range of individuals and those working in and across organisations operating in different sectors. The qualification will establish the connection between coaching and the achievement of personal effectiveness, professional performance and organisational goals. 

It is an OFQUAL approved 27 credit Level 6 qualification which consists of 3 units. To achieve the full 27 credit certificate, learners must complete the training, assessment and accreditation for all three units. 

See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

*Discounts available for larger group bookings

Contextual Safeguarding - an introduction: Cost £150 + vat per learner

This course, run on a virtual basis in 2 interactive group sessions, provides an introduction to contextual safeguarding covering:

• Where and when young people face the risk of harm and exploitation

•  The five inter-related contextual safeguarding themes
• The research underpinning contextual safeguarding
• The importance of the weighting and interplay of the contextual safeguarding themes
• The importance of mapping hotspots (schools, neighbourhoods etc)
• Testing out a range of tools to help with contextual safeguarding mapping
• Using evidence to strengthen contextual safeguarding assessments

See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Cultural Competence; working with faith, religion and beliefs: Cost £150 + vat per learner 

This course is delivered in 2 half day interactive group sessions and is designed for professionals working with children and families. It will explore, through presentations, discussions and case studies:

• The values and beliefs of different faiths, belief systems and religions
• Skills to help put ‘respecting difference’ into practice
• Explore where communities and groups are stereotyped and consider appropriate responses
• The need for good self-awareness of our own culture and beliefs
• Frameworks for exploring the importance of faith and belief with children and families
• Where beliefs, culture or religion may be linked to abuse

 See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Evidencing the voice of the child: Cost £150 + vat per learner

Recent research suggests that whilst workers across many professions and organisations are committed to hearing the voice of the child or young person, we often struggle to truly understand how they experience us and how they experience their life. We also struggle with how best to use their ‘voice’ to shape plans and interventions for they and their families. Learning from Serious Case Reviews echo these points.

Our 2 half day interactive group sessions for professionals working with children and families, will explore, through presentations, discussions and case studies a range of advanced skills to enhance direct work

See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Family Group Conferences: Cost £450 + vat per learner

This course is for those people with some basic knowledge of family group conferences who wish to increase their understanding and obtain the necessary skills to co-ordinate family group conferences. 

This 3 day course is split into 6 interactive sessions with home learning tasks to support learning and understanding.

See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Level 4 Certificate - Working with Children, Individuals and Families. Cost £1,500 + vat per learner

The course will equip workers with the understanding, ability and confidence to go out and work effectively with children, individuals and families with complex and multiple needs.

It is a 15 credit Level 4 qualification which consists of 3 units.  It is THE qualification that fits latest policy and practice and meets the needs of the current workforce. We have developed a comprehensive professional guidance resource and a reflective workbook to support and embed learning. It is a 9 half day virtual training course delivered by an experienced training professional with full 1:1 support followed by a comprehensive assessment process over 6 months. See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Level 5 Leadership & Management Certificate - Working with Children, Individuals and Families. Cost £1,795 + vat per learner

This course leads to a qualification which is regulated by OFQUAL. It is a 22 credit Level 5 qualification consisting of 3 units and is run as a 9 half day virtual training course with full 1:1 support and followed by a comprehensive assessment process over a 6 month period.

The course is designed to develop effective leaders enabling them to use strategies to influence and provide  challenge to ensure organisational objectives are met whilst enhancing stakeholder relationships and understanding and responding to a variety of national/local agendas around working with children, individuals and families. See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Motivational Interviewing: Cost £150 + vat per learner

For those wanting to work effectively with individuals and families with multiple and complex needs we know that you need to bring about change and improvements in outcomes. Using these approaches is a powerful technique in bringing about behaviour change. For those who are leaders in an organisation this supports you to get the best from your team.

Our 2 half day course provides the knowledge and awareness of how to use motivational approaches as a technique, consider the cycle of change, use tools and consider how to work with resistance and ambivalence.

See more on this course and other options here.

Parental Substance Misuse: the impact on children and goals for parental change: Cost £150 + vat per learner

Our 2 half day interactive group session course for professionals working with children and families is designed to help build knowledge and confidence to work more effectively with families where substance misuse may impact on parents and on children and to plan for progress and change.. See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Professional Curiosity and Critical Thinking skills for assessments: Cost £150 + vat per learner

Our 2 half day interactive group session course for professionals working with children and families, will explore, through presentations, discussions and case studies a range of thinking skills to enhance decision-making.  See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Trauma Informed Practice: Cost £150 + vat per learner 

To provide trauma-informed care to children, young people and families, professionals need to have an awareness and understanding of the impact of trauma on child development and learn how to effectively minimize its effects without causing additional trauma.

Our 2 half day interactive group session course provides a grounding in Trauma Informed Practice for professionals working with children and families .

See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Understanding Baby, Child and Teenage Brain development: Cost £150 + vat per learner

This course provides learners with an understanding of the function of early brain development and its impact on children and young people’s life chances. The programme will explore the impact of poverty and complex needs in families on baby brain development. 

Professionals will learn the key elements of teenage brain development which will underpin their ability to support parents and young people to ensure plans and interventions take into account the developmental needs of the child/young person. See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

Working with men and fathers in families: Cost £150 + vat per learner

Our 2 half day interactive group session course for professionals working with children and families, will explore, through presentations, discussions and case studies:

• The importance of working with fathers in families
• Practice dilemmas workers face when working with men in families
• Skills to find, engage, communicate and understand men in families
• The research evidence and men’s experiences of services
• The need to assess both strengths and risks of men in families
• How an understanding of attachment theory can help working with men in families

See more on this course and its learning outcomes here.

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