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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
£0.00
Recording and Report writing skills for Foster Carers
Course aim:
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 the reasons for keeping different types of records
- Identify which information should be gathered in ways which it can best be recorded
- Consider the audience for the records and their use
- Understand how to separate fact from opinions and avoid discriminatory comments and value judgements
- Understand and apply the rules of data protection
Contributes to Training, Support and Development Standards:
- Mainstream Standard 2 & 4
- Short Breaks Standard 2 & 4
- Connected Persons Standard 1 & 3
Venue: Kingfisher Youth Centre. Boulder Lane, Leicester, LE2 6LL
£0.00
Understand your role as a Kinship Foster Carer
Course aim:
To establish a shared understanding of the role of a kinship foster carer and to introduce the Training, Support and Development Standards (TSDS) programme.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Understand your own role and responsibilities in relation to your Fostering Service.
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Understand the role of your Supervising Social Worker and child’s Social Worker.
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Be able to work in partnership with staff from the other organisations that support you and the child or young person in your care.
- Understand your role as a kinship foster carer: Know how to contribute to planning for the child or young person including contributions to meetings and reviews.
- Policies, procedures: Know about relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to kinship foster care, and where you can get further information.
- Develop yourself: Understand the purpose of your personal supervision and annual review and how to make the best use of it.
- Develop yourself: Know what support is available to you and the importance of asking for help and advice.
- Personal development: Be willing to take advantage of training and development opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills further. As appropriate to the child you are caring for.
Contributes to Training, Support and Development Standards:
- Standard 1 & 6
Dates
- To be confirmed.
£0.00
The following courses are available through our external partners. To book a place, please speak to your supervising social worker.
Equality and Diversity
Available online via Click Flourish website for new carers, please ask your Supervising Social Worker to allocate this training to you.
Course Aim:
This course aims to give a basic introduction to Anti-Discriminatory Practice.
Learning outcomes:
Understand key issues in equality, diversity, and identity.
- Explain what is meant by the terms: equality, diversity, and identity.
- Explain how legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination apply to your own work role.
- Identify different types of prejudice and discrimination which can affect children and young people.
- Explain key principles in promoting empowerment.
Develop skills in anti-discriminatory practice, promoting respect for diversity and building identity.
- Describe how to challenge discrimination in a way that promotes change.
- Describe effective interventions in promoting equality, respecting diversity, and building identity.
- Explain how to support and encourage children and young people to develop skills to deal with discrimination, enhance self-worth and make a positive contribution.
Contributes to Training, Support and Development Standards:
- Mainstream Standard 1, 4, 5 and 7
- Connected persons Standard 1
- Short breaks Standard 1
£0.00
Understanding your Traumatised Child and Introduction to Therapeutic Parenting
Available online via Inspire Training. please ask your Supervising Social Worker to allocate this training to you.
Course Aim:
- To understand why the children, we care for need therapeutic parenting.
- To understand what the term ‘therapeutic parenting’ means in practice and how it differs from traditional approaches.
Learning Outcomes:
Using therapeutic parenting, carers will be more able to:
- Offer relationships within which children experience safety and security.
- Maintain a positive but realistic picture of the child.
- Look at the meaning behind children’s behaviour.
- Offer consistency, routine, and predictability.
Contributes to Training, Support and Development Standards:
- Mainstream Standard 5
- Connected Persons Standard 4 & 6
- Short Breaks Standard 4 & 6