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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

Key aspects of work

Assessment of looked-after children and young people

Care planning and review: 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

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 * 22-07-2019 (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 the HCPC, you can include this as evidence of continuing professional development.

1. What have you learned from this activity?

2. How will it improve your practice?

3. How will it benefit service users?

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

For more details, visit the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Add item to PRTL log

Title * Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub

Date * 22-07-2019 (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

Full Harvard reference for this document:

() Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub. Knowledge Hubs.
Community Care Inform
[online]
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/looked-after-children-knowledge-and-practice-hub/
[accessed: 22 July 2019]

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