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residential care

dialogue provides training, coaching & mentoring, consultancy, safeguarding audits and independent visiting services for children’s homes, residential schools and supported accommodation providers.

dialogue was a big part of our progress from inadequate to good – they helped us focus in on how young people experienced our care”
Registered Manager

We prefer to work closely with you to identify areas of need and devise bespoke packages that demonstrably improve the lives of young people in your care. Training for managers, residential workers and other staff includes supervision, safeguarding, care planning & analysis, recording and much more.

dialogue sponsors and helped found the south west registered managers’ forum.

Contact us to arrange a discussion about how we can work together.

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dialogue membership

We are fortunate to be connected with well over 2,000 senior leaders in children’s residential care across England. Hundreds of you are already dialogue members – we’ve been providing support around child exploitation, therapeutic approaches, online safety, young people’s participation and safer recruitment to mention a few. dialogue is always looking at how we can better help you connect, build on great practice and learn together, so we are revitalising our membership offer to Residential Care around these principles and making them easier to attend.

•    Individual members now have access to all the previous online membership content, in one simple weekly meeting. We’ll be running these in a regular 1-2pm slot on a Wednesday every week with bite-size training, specialist learning, regular news and an itinerary of guest speakers covering a whole range of subjects. You’ll also still have access to discounted training (often 25% cheaper) and free initial safeguarding and regulatory advice as well as our valuable bulletin. All this additional content will be available for the same annual fee of £99+vat. Please note that individual membership will not be transferable.

•    Whole home membership will open up individual membership to everyone in your children’s home, providing hours of continuous professional development in bite-size chunks. As many of your team as you wish can join the sessions, or you can pick particular subjects you think will be of most interest. Your whole team can benefit from the training discounts and you are entitled to a 10% discount on training and consultancy fees. This is tremendous value at less than the price of just four memberships – £395+vat.

•    Whole organisation membership works like the whole home membership, but covers everyone in your organisation. We scale this depending on the size of your endeavour and it works out cheaper than each having whole home membership, so feel free to get in touch for a quote

To join or enrol your staff, click on the button below to read more….

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training courses

We’ve adapted many of our courses to become highly interactive Zoom-based training programmes split into several sessions over a period of time. For more information on the courses available soon please click on the relevant course below:

Avoiding Medication Errors
child protection with disability
child sexual exploitation training
Directors, the Board and Safeguarding training
dynamic risk
‘Grow your own’ aspiring leaders
Introduction to Harmful Sexual Behaviour
Introduction to Therapeutic Parenting
Leadership programme
Managing Allegations
Managing the Inspection Process – Challenge and Compromise
Mental Capacity & Liberty Protection Safeguards
Regulation 44 network & training
Regulation 45/32 Review of Quality training
Relationships, Sex and Consent
Responding to Drugs, County Lines & Child Criminal Exploitation
Responsible Individual Training
Return home interview training
Safeguarding Lead training for Children’s Homes (level 5)
safeguarding children (level 3)
Safeguarding Self-harm
Safeguarding Supervision
Safer Recruitment
Smoking and Vaping Cessation
Substance Misuse training for residential care
supervised contact with families
Trauma Informed Residential Care training pathway
Young people going missing

evaluation

Participants highly rate dialogue training for usefulness of content, meeting learning outcomes, making a difference to young people and the quality of the trainer.

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(based on most recent 252 ratings on 24/4/21)

I have been involved with safeguarding both children and adults over many years as a manager, Inspector, Consultant, Director and RI. I was very impressed and feel more confident in my future role.

Graham Cheney, RI, Bleep360