Supervised Contact with Families training

Family time is important for all of us. For some young people, especially those in care, time with families brings complications and in some cases this time needs to be supervised.

This course explores how to create the right environment for safe, positive time with families. It equips supervisors with tools to understand the risks, plan ahead, respond effectively in a child-centred way and make an effective record.

An important course for anyone spending time with children, young people and their families, this has been highlighted as an Ofsted requirement for children’s homes facilitating ‘supervised contact’.

dates, venues and booking

For information about when and where the next courses are running, please see below.

the course

Learning objectives:

The course will cover:

    • understanding care plans
    • risk assessment & intervention
    • court issues, including ‘ reasonable contact’
    • writing a good contact report for court
    • facilitating positive experiences
    • dealing with the unexpected

the trainers

Rachael Courage is a trainer and consultant for dialogue. Rachael holds a masters degree in Social Work, as well as a level 5 NVQ in Management. Rachael has 20 years experience as a Social worker, and is currently practicing as a Chair for Child Protection Conferences for a Local Authority. She is an experienced trainer in child safeguarding, and child protection, and has managed sexual exploitation and missing services for Barnardos, including setting up services in new areas and working with Child Safeguarding Assurance Partnership around their strategic response to child sexual exploitation.

Rachael has been the safeguarding lead for the children and young people’s service within a hospice and has worked for the NSPCC delivering individual and group therapeutic interventions for children who have experienced abuse.

booking and dates

This one day course is being delivered virtually for £132+VAT.

If you have booked five places the sixth place is free.

CHANASAP, NAFPSW Forum, and RI Network receive a 25% discount – members price is £99+VAT

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