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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Transforming Practice Education in Social Work
Read MoreWe were commissioned by a consortium of Social Work Teaching Partnerships to support the development of a national strategy for Social Work Practice Education.
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HMP & Probation Service - Trauma‑Informed Practice Training
Read MoreWe delivered a bespoke virtual Trauma‑Informed Practice Training programme for Neurodiversity Support Managers working within HM Prison and Probation Service
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Bracknell Forest Evaluation
Bracknell Forest Council has a strategic priority to build volunteering and improve community resilience. They are keen to build and support communities that can help themselves through the increased use of volunteers.Read More -
Trauma Informed Practice training - Developing Together Social Work Teaching Partnership
We are currently providing a large training programme and associated support to the Developing Together Social Work Teaching PartnershipRead More
Cancellation Policy
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