Training courses
Updating Your Knowledge and Practice for Independent Reviewing Officers and Chairs of Child Protection Conferences
Length: one day
This course provides an opportunity for senior practitioners to update their knowledge on the law, policy and research on planning for permanence.
Course designed for: independent reviewing officers, chairs of child protection conferences, child care reviewing managers and experienced senior managers of child care services.
The course and training materials will:
- Cover planning for permanence;
- Examine the legal framework including the Children Acts 1989 and 2004, the Human Rights Act 1998, child protection procedures, and adoption law (current and new frameworks);
- Address challenging inertia when children are in long-term care;
- Explore service user involvement in individual cases and at a strategic level in planning service delivery;
- Look at how to build in evaluation and monitor quality.
