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LADO and Managing Allegations
All professionals working with children and young people must know how to keep and share information.
As a foster carer this can involve unique challenges. This course enables carers to understand the principles that underpin good record keeping, and how to apply rules of confidentiality within their own work.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand key issues and principles in safer caring.
- Explain how the assessment and management of risk, and an understanding of the effect of trauma are key factors underpinning ‘safer caring’ in relation to foster care.
- Explain ways in which assessment and management of risks and benefits to all parties can be undertaken in the setting.
- Explain the importance of delegated authority in the context of teamwork in foster care.
- Develop skills in safer caring for traumatised children and young people.
- Show how an understanding of how to promote recovery from trauma can inform good practice in developing and implementing safer caring guidelines.
- Explain the importance of effective safer caring procedures in ensuring the physical and emotional well-being of the whole foster care family and the team around them.
Contributes to Training, Support and Development Standards:
- Mainstream 3, 5 & 6
- Short Breaks Standards 3, 5 & 6
- Connected Persons Standards 1 & 4