Durham Children

Welcome to County Durham’s children’s care CC Inform Page

Shelly Gill Service improvement manager ( Interim Principal Social Worker)

Here you will find links to a huge range of CPD materials to help refresh and deepen your knowledge and skills to strengthen your practice when working with children , young people and their families in County Durham.  It highlights content from Community Care Inform that fits with current service priorities and topics we know you are interested in. At your fingertips a resource  to help you plan your work and develop your assessment and planning skills.

We know you learn flexibly and  in different ways so there are things to read, things to listen to and things to watch as well as sign posts and references for more specialist materials and resources. These can add value to the courses you may attend. For those of you who are registered Social workers you can log this learning as CPD for your Social Work England registration.

Our approach in County Durham promotes strength based , relational practice which is trauma informed and our model of practice is signs of safety. We want to encourage collaborative , informed and  kind practice where children and their important people have a strong voice, lots of purposeful direct work and where plans are co produced and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.

Where our values , knowledge and experience is evident in all aspects of practice and any reports we produce are of high quality. We want the supervision we experience to be reflective , supportive , challenging  and for it to improve outcomes for children , young people and their families and develop our practitioners at whatever stage of their career.