World Children’s Day at St Fagan’s National Museum of History. A day packed full of exciting and interactive workshops, discussions and live entertainment, especially for the young people of Wales to enjoy and get involved with… Read More
Help with bullying and relationships – a Kidscape guide
A practical and useful guide to help children and young people feel happy and safe in school, in the community and online. It discusses topics like: What can you do if you’re being bullied? How can you support others? What if you have bullied someone else?… Read More
Talk to Us: Samaritans annual awareness campaign is back this July
Every year in July, Samaritans branches in the UK and Republic of Ireland hold local events to raise awareness that Samaritans are here to listen to anyone who’s struggling to cope, at any time of the day or night… Read More
Exploring cultural competence
This open course offers an introduction to the concept of Cultural Competence and what this means in the context of fostering, kinship and adoption work. This session explores the knowledge and understanding needed to complement a culturally competence approach and aims to increase practitioners’ confidence in working with diversity and difference… Read More
Undertaking Child Permanence Reports
The Child Permanence Report (CPR) is the primary document used by the Agency Decision Maker to reach their decision that the child ‘should be placed for adoption’. The CPR also provides information for adoption panels to reach their recommendations when children are being placed for adoption with the consent of their birth parents… Read More
Exploring Expertise: “Square peg in a round hole” – Kinship Care
Kinship Foster Carers (Connected Persons) often don’t choose to be foster carers, but the law requires them to be assessed, supervised and supported as a foster carer to ensure a child in care can remain in a regulated placement. For many reasons, it can be difficult to achieve approval of some kinship foster carers, and the ‘placement’ becomes unlawful or unregulated. Read More
Assessing Adult Relationships
The purpose of this open course is to give participants an opportunity to consider what good practice in assessing adult relationships is, exploring their own values and assumptions and to consider the importance of attachment styles; motivation; sex and sexuality; and loss and infertility… Read More
Facilitating parent and child arrangements
Foster carers are increasingly being asked to care for a parent and their child during care proceedings, and to contribute towards the assessment of parenting capacity. This type of arrangement is complex, involving different tasks and responsibilities… Read More
How will the Independent Care Review make a difference to children’s lives?
In this webinar, Josh MacAlistair, Chair of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England, will summarise the Review’s key recommendations and take questions on how these might affect local support for children and young people… Read More
British Academy’s Childhood Policy Programme produces child friendly booklet
The British Academy’s Childhood Policy programme booklet is aimed specifically at children and it explores the effects the ongoing pandemic had in children living in the UK… Read More
