Advanced Assessment skills
Good quality assessments are fundamental to protecting children and supporting families. You need to be able to gather information, make sense of it and use it to create effective plans. This requires you to utilise a range of questioning and thinking skills for different purposes. It also requires you 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 curiosity in relationship-based practice
- Recognising evidence, difference, grey areas and missing information in the assessment process
- Understanding colliding or nurturing biographies; cumulative and interacting risks and strengths
- Being aware of 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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Level 4 Working with Parents (Intense support for families with complex needs) Training – LB Newham
Newham were looking for evidence based training for their newly formed team. The team were going to be working with families with high complex needs following the troubled families’ agenda. This is how Interface supported Newham...Read More -
Thurrock - Report writing and Effective communication
Interface provided a one-day training session aimed at Children Social Care Social Workers to increase the quality of written assessments for newly appointed and existing staff.Read More -
Bracknell Forest Leadership Programme
We were commissioned to provide a 3-day leadership programme for school leaders across Bracknell Forest and Reading who were new to senior leadership/heads and aspiring head teachers.Read More -
Motivational Interviewing - West London Zone
West London Zone is inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a ‘cradle-to-college’ pipeline of support for children. The HCZ approach is to do ‘whatever it takes’ to help young people escape generational disadvantage – with the ambition to achieve a ‘tipping point’ whereby the whole community has a positive experience of learning, work and family life.Read 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.