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Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub

Author: Community Care Inform

Publication Date: 3 April 2019

Grandparents Reading Book With Baby Granddaughter At Home

What do children and young people in care want from social workers? Understand more about children’s experiences, from going into care to leaving it, and the ways in which you can support them through your practice.
Refresh your knowledge of key aspects of work with looked-after children and young people, including assessment, care planning and review.
How to work well with birth parents, including supporting behaviour change, assessment and rehabilitating the home.

Voice of the child

Young pensive guy on the background of an old wooden wall

What’s life like as a looked-after child?

Going into care

Contact with birth family

Placement difficulties

Returning home from care

Types of placement

Grandparents Reading Book With Baby Granddaughter At Home

Kinship care: quick guide

Special guardianship orders: quick guide

Out-of-area placements

Looked-after disabled children: guide to the law

Key aspects of work

Assessment of looked-after children and young people

Placement choice and decisions

Care planning and review: quick guide

Multimedia learning

Siblings, placement and contact: podcast

Placement disruption: quick guide

Multimedia learning

Learn as a group: contact with birth family – a trauma model approach

Elsewhere on Community Care Inform

Adoption knowledge and practice hub

Fostering knowledge and practice hub

Applying trauma-informed practice in direct work

Multimedia learning

Relationship-based conversations: practice scenario videos

Multimedia learning

Podcast: motivational interviewing

Multimedia learning

Podcast: parents with learning disabilities

Working with young people

Independent visitors for looked-after children

Working with looked-after teenagers

Multimedia learning

Podcast: looked-after children and self-harm

Podcast transcript

Birth family

Working with parents of looked-after children

A trauma model for planning, assessing and reviewing contact

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, do let us know.

Add item to CPD log

Title *
Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub

Date *
24-11-2020 (dd-mm-yyyy)

Learning or development activity, resource or URL
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/looked-after-children-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning

Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. The form below replicates that used by Social Work England on your online account, so that when you have to renew your registration you can include this as evidence of your continuing professional development. Everything you write will be stored in your Inform account from which you can export all the information as a Word file and upload to an unstructured form on the Social Work England website or print it off for other uses – for example, in supervision.

1. What was your job role? Briefly provide the context of your role when you did the CPD?

2. What did you do? Provide more information to explain the title of the CPD, for example, what you did and/or what happened.

3. Critical reflection - explain the impact that the CPD had on the quality of your practice.

4. Social Work England have eight CPD standards (4.1-4.8). Which of these do you believe your learning demonstrates? Note down and reflect on as many as apply. The eight standards are:

4.1 Incorporate feedback from a range of sources, including from people with lived experience of my social work practice.
4.2 Use supervision and feedback to critically reflect on, and identify my learning needs, including how I use research and evidence to inform my practice.
4.3 Keep my practice up to date and record how I use research, theories and frameworks to inform my practice and my professional judgement.
4.4 Demonstrate good subject knowledge on key aspects of social work practice and develop knowledge of current issues in society and social policies impacting on social work.
4.5 Contribute to an open and creative learning culture in the workplace to discuss, reflect on and share best practice.
4.6 Reflect on my learning activities and evidence what impact continuing professional development has on the quality of my practice.
4.7 Record my learning and reflection on a regular basis and in accordance with Social Work England's guidance on continuing professional development.
4.8 Reflect on my own values and challenge the impact they have on my practice.

For more information, see Social Work England’s guidance on CPD.

Add item to PRTL log

Title * Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub

Date * 24-11-2020 (dd-mm-yyyy)

URL https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/looked-after-children-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. Everything you write will be stored in your Inform account and you can export all the information as a Word file or print it off. When you have to renew your social work registration with Social Care Wales, you can include this as evidence of post-registration training and learning.

1. What have you learned from this activity?

2. How has it contributed to your practice?

3. How much time have you spent on this activity?

4. Next steps (any additional learning you need in this area)?

For more details, visit Social Care Wales

Citation

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() Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub. Knowledge Hubs.
Community Care Inform
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https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/looked-after-children-knowledge-and-practice-hub/
[accessed: 24 November 2020]

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