Advanced Assessment skills
Good quality assessments are fundamental to protecting children and supporting families. We need to be able to gather information, make sense of it and use it to create effective plans. This requires us to utilise a range of questioning and thinking skills for different purposes. It also requires us 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 humble curiosity in relationship-based practice
- Understanding the different thinking styles and their application to practice
- Recognising evidence, difference, grey areas and missing information in the assessment process
- Understanding colliding or nurturing biographies; cumulative and interacting risks and strengths
- The top 5 questions for all assessments
- Using hypothesis types to reduce 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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Stoke on Trent Better Together Project Evaluation
We were commissioned to provide an 18-month evaluation of the Better Together [BT] Project to understand whether it was an effective approach for equipping schools (and potentially other settings) to support the early help system and to understand likelihood of impact on family stability and educational outcomes.Read More -
LB Tower Hamlets – ATHE Level 4 working with individuals, children and families
Tower hamlets commissioned Interface to run this brand new accredited course following our delivery of 4 previous city and guilds accredited courses.Read More -
Aberdeenshire C Change
C-Change is a structured, evidence based approach to assessing parental capacity to change in situations where the parenting is likely to be causing harm to their children. Aberdeenshire were interested in further improving quality of assessments and particularly to enable practitioners to move ‘stuck’ cases forwards and provide practitioners with greater confidence to intervene in families who could make initial changes but struggled to sustain parenting at a good enough level.Read More -
Level 5 OPEN Training Oct 21 Cohort
Read MoreThis cohort of 10 learners came from Health, Local Authorities and colleagues from a range of voluntary sector organisations
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.