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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Stockton - Culture Changing Training Programme
We are working with Catalyst, a voluntary sector partner to develop and deliver part of a culture change training programme.Read More -
Buckinghamshire Council - Contextual Safeguarding Training
We were commissioned to deliver Contextual Safeguarding training for Buckinghamshire Council Early Help team in Social Care and Youth Justice.Read More -
Catch 22 - Child Protection & Data Protection Training
We worked with Catch 22 staff, who supported young offenders in the community, to deliver a 1-day session on Child Protection and Safeguarding and a half-day workshop on Data Protection.Read More -
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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.