Course Outline:
This course equips social workers with skills to identify and address a lack of engagement in difficult-to-engage families and children. It explores professional curiosity and respectful challenge.
The course aims to arm social workers, working with difficult to engage families and children, with the skills to identify what leads to a lack of engagement and to define and recognise difficult to engage behaviour. The course will explore what is meant by professional curiosity and respectful challenge.
Delegates will consider the relevant legislation for intervention, to include the Human Rights Act 1998, the Children Act 1989, the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005, along with statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018.
Delegates will consider the importance of record keeping and risk assessments. There is an emphasis on how appropriate factual relevant and informative evidence is created, collected, collated and analysed by professionals.
The course will identify the importance of appropriate safeguarding supervision, with consideration given to strategies that could be adopted to aid the social worker in the management of the stress and demands that difficult to engage families and children can place upon them.
Consideration will be given to staff rights and the statutory duties upon managers and others, to provide a safe working environment for their staff.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Identify who are “difficult to engage’ parents and children
- Explore what may lead to a lack of engagement with some families
- Define types of uncooperative behaviour — to include ambivalence, avoidance, resistance, intimidation, confrontation and violence
- Explore what is meant by “professional curiosity”
- Evaluate the relevant legal framework from Human Rights through to policy and procedures
- Prioritise the child’s needs by applying Working Together to Safeguard Children
- Appraise the effectiveness of multi-agency working and sharing of information to safeguard adults and professionals
- Evaluate relevant factual evidence that builds a holistic picture around the child
- Verify the importance of risk assessments and the production of well-crafted action plans which identify how risks can be identified, managed and reduced
- Evaluate whether there is adequate support and supervision to enable staff to respond appropriately to risky or hostile behaviour
- Identify the key learning from some of the Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
Course Details:
- Duration and CPD: 1 day | 6 hours
- In-house course format and fee: Virtual or face-to-face | Call for details
Please call 020 7549 2549 or email info@bondsolon.com to discuss or book an in-house course.