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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Parental 'Virtual' Capacity To Change Training – Barnardo’s- Northern Ireland
We delivered the 2 day C Change programme to a range of professionals working for Barnardo’s in Early Help & Family Centres, completing Parenting Assessments and Court reports, across a large and diverse area.Read More -
LB Barking and Dagenham – Support for Family Hubs
Read MoreWe have been supporting LB Barking and Dagenham for almost a year around their Early Help and Family Hub agenda.
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LB Lewisham (Family Thrive) Bespoke Training Course
Read MoreWe were commissioned to provide training to support frontline staff to build skills to support children and families accessing support from the Family Thrive team.
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Westminster Family Hubs Training
Read MoreInterface provided extensive support over 2 years supporting the creation of Family hubs and skilling up the workforce in their Early Help model
Cancellation Policy
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