Residential Leadership Group
Dialogue has run a forum for managers and responsible individuals for around five years to excellent feedback with valuable updates, leadership CPD and the opportunity to talk to other managers and RIs about the task, sharing good practice and providing mutual support.
We’ve moved online
As we moved back to our face-to-face conferences, there was a request from managers who’d been attending the forum to find a way for the online sessions to continue. We’ve agreed with RIs and Managers to create a low-cost forum approach as part of our communities of interest approach – creating semi-structured online spaces for residential leaders to come together.
Open to managers and deputies, responsible individuals and commissioners we’re ensuring people have an easy way of getting themselves up to date with relevant research, the on-going diverse impacts of the pandemic and changes in the way homes are inspected and monitored. Every month there will be a focused presentation on an aspect of residential care with an aim of improving the lives of children and young people. We’ll then finish with smaller peer groups to share challenges and solutions, moral support and ensure everyone has the opportunity to talk, with a short plenary to share the most useful ideas from each of the groups.
Pathway Planning
16th April at 1pm - 4pmProgramme includes
Agenda:
13:00 – Welcome / introductions – John Woodhouse and Liz Cooper
13:15 – Pathway Planning – John Woodhouse
What are your aims and aspirations for your young people? More importantly, what are theirs? The Pathway Plan forms a contract between local authorities and their young people and we will work on how to ensure this always acts in their best interests.
14:00 – Residential Sector Update – Liz Cooper
(Covid-19, inspection, research and other themes)
14:30 – Break
15:00 – Peer Group Discussions
15:30 – Large Group Feedback and Plenary
16:00 – Close
What's currently affecting our sector
7th May 2024 9:30am - 12.30pmProgramme includes
9:30 Introductions
10:00 Sector update
10.30 Clair Davies on “The CHA”
Clair has spent the last thirty years working with children who have been traumatised by abuse and neglect. She was Chair of the Apprenticeship Trailblazer which wrote the Level 4 & 5 qualifications for those working with Children, Young People and Families. She was awarded an MBE in 2020 for her work with Apprenticeships and Traumatised Children. Clair is the current Chair of the Children’s Home Association and will be discuss membership and the current issues facing our sector.
11.30 Break
11.45 Discussion about the effect of the revised SCIFF
12:15 AOB
12:30 Close
Safeguarding Supervision
18th June 1-4pmProgramme includes
Agenda:
13:00 – Welcome / Introductions – Liz Cooper
13:15 – Residential Sector Update – Liz Cooper
(Covid-19, inspection, research and other themes)
14:00 – Break
14:15 – Safeguarding Supervision – Presentation by Liz Cooper
Our supervision course aims to equip supervisors with the skills and confidence to support and challenge workers to better understand risk and the quality of work being undertaken with children and families. Liz will be discussing structure and how to approach supervision using an established supervision model to empower staff and focus on the experience and progress of young people.
15:15 – Group Discussion
16:00 – Close
Try first event free…
You’ll find the programme and support from other managers invaluable, but if you’re not sure add the code TRYFORFREE to the invoicing details and we will defer your first invoice a month. Simply let us know you’d not like to continue and we’ll cancel the invoice altogether.
Annual membership is then just £99 a year to attend all the sessions, with discounts for existing dialogue memberships and if your home joins one of our other communities of interest.
If you’d like to join, click the button below and select the Residential Leadership Group from the communities of interest.
Other communities of interest groups….
We also run other forums for specialist support in the residential community for participation leads, online safety leads, children with disabilities, exploitation leads and safer recruitment leads.
costs
The groups are run on an annual membership fee of £99+vat for each community of interest. We are keen to make the model accessible and supportive to residential homes, so additional memberships will access a £20 discount, meaning subsequent members from your home to the same group or to a different group will cost £79+vat each.
membership for homes
As we’ve grown these communities, we are now able to offer homes one representative at each of the six communities of interest memberships for just £399+vat for annual membership.
If you are a multi home organisation and would like to sign up several homes for this offer – please contact us to discuss the possibilities of further discounts directly on 01803 493030.
Residential Leadership Group booking:
The event is open to everyone in a residential leadership position and is a great opportunity to share ideas, seek support and improve practice.
With our new online offering, this membership is open nationally to leaders. Once registered, you will receive an email with access to our members’ area.
dialogue will be responsible for invoicing. If you register we will securely store the information you give us. We will use this to keep you updated in line with your preferences. You can end your membership at any stage by contacting us and we will remove all your data. We will confirm all this by email.
To join this group, please register below…
Programme and agenda for the next meeting can be viewed in our Members’ Area.
Once registered, you will receive details to view the members’ area.
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