Training Topics: Direct Work Practices
Curiosity and Hypothesising: Essential Skills for Safe Assessments
An understanding of the need to be professionally curious, and how to hypothesise effectively is absolutely key to safeguarding and supporting change. This training walks participants through various models, including Social GRAAAACES, LUUUTT Models and more, so that practical tools can be implemented into practice straight away.
An understanding of the need to hypothesise for safe assessments
Tools on hypothesising through reflective practice
Experience of engaging hypothesis circles of reflective practice using real case studies
Half Day Workshop
Holistic Interventions, Models and Direct Work Resources
This purely practice-focused workshop considers various models, direct work resources and tools that can be best utilised to support children and young people.
Learn about a variety of models and resources that can be utilised to increase effectiveness of engagement.
Learn how to apply those models in practice.
Half Day Workshop
Building Safety Through Practice
This collaborative workshop will focus on developing strategies, practices and interventions tailored to unique needs within your service.
Participants will learn to explore, workshop and create a variety of tools that facilitate holistic support, encompassing thorough assessments and encouraging young person-led self-assessment of their needs and aspirations. The course will also introduce practical tools aimed at fostering reflection, creativity, and curiosity within their professional practice. Through interactive workshops, case studies, and hands-on activities, attendees will gain the skills necessary to create effective, individualised action plans that promote the well-being and growth of young people.
Develop effective means of designing and implementing support and intervention action plans, that include the young person’s individual needs.
Explore various tools that enable holistic support, assessment and young person-led self-assessment of needs and hopes.
Develop useful tools to enable reflection, creativity and curiosity within practice.
Full Day Workshop
Engaging Young People and their Families in Effective Plans
Moving away from viewpoints and language such as “non-engagement” and “non-compliance/adherence to the plan,” towards critically assessing why such plans don’t always work for the young person or their family.
A plan centred on and co-designed by those the plan impacts is key to its effectiveness.
Understanding how to develop and facilitate co-produced plans within child and transitional safeguarding.
Understanding how well-informed and considered plans can support agency and not take it away.
Considering how plans can be formulated that consider and aim to meet everyone’s needs, not simply “obligations.”
Full Day Workshop
Case Management
This case management training session is for youth workers and colleagues within social care, health and criminal justice who support clients on a casework basis. With competing timelines, dynamic risks and differing pieces of work, managing caseloads can be a challenge for anyone.
Have an understanding of how to prioritise caseloads effectively
Have a toolbox of effective prioritisation methods
Be able to utilise key reflective techniques and grounding exercises to ensure safe and effective practice
Half Day Workshop
Understanding Children’s Services
This training provides information on the frameworks and processes by which England’s Children’s Services operate and how a social worker assesses needs. This training is designed for any 3rd sector or partner organisation who engages with Children’s Services and multi-agency meetings. It is designed to upskill practitioners so that they may better understand various processes and legislation and advocate for young people within safeguarding arenas.
Understand the various pieces of legislation and frameworks that Children’s Services use to assess concerns.
Understand the various meetings and plans led by Children’s Services and what they entail.
Understand how to advocate for children, young people and their families in contact with Children’s Services.
Understand how to professionally challenge and escalate where necessary.
Half Day or Full Day Workshop