Knowledge & Practice Hub
Monmouthshire Children Services
Introduction
Welcome to Monmouthshire’s Health & Social Care personalised area for Children’s Services. Here you will find a range of resources and information to support your practice and enhance your knowledge, in a variety of different formats to suit your learning needs. Below you will find information has been categorised into roles for quick and easy access for all.
New Starters
Click here to find well-being resources
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- Managing fear in social work
- Self-care and Covid-19: podcast
- Time management
- Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue: a guide to support managers and practitioners
- Developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in practitioners
- Quiz: test your own emotional resilience
- Webinar: emotional resilience and how to develop it
- Stress management: a guide for managers
Click here to find legislation one page overviews
- 1.2 1.4 Equality Act protected characteristics
- 1.2 Advocacy handout
- 1.2 Human Rights Act 1998 – An overview
- 1.3 Person centred approaches
- 1.3 Treating people with dignity and respect
- 1.4 What is discrimination, inclusion, diversity and equality
- 1.5 Positive risk taking
- 1.6 Professional boundaries – a resource for managers
- 1.6 Relationship Centred Working Activity 17 handout
- 1.6 Unacceptable practice examples
- 1.7 Effective communication
- 1.8 The active offer
- 1.8 Welsh language legislation and strategies
- 1.9 Use in class instead of Positive Approaches
- 1.10 Activity 30 – the importance of attitude
- 1.11 Reflection
Senior practitioner and Manager Resources
Learning Focus
Please use the below sections to find resources to support the current key learning areas for all staff.
Foster Carers
Please use the below sections to find resources to support your learning and development alongside the foster carer learning framework.
Core
- Child development practice support tool
- Child development: the impact of parental substance misuse
- Impact of infant neglect: 0 to two years
- Impact of neglect on the pre-school child: two to four years
- Impact of neglect on the primary school child: five to eleven years
- Neglect: impact on the adolescent
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding children and young people online
- Allegations against foster carers
- Life as a looked-after child: contact with birth family
- Fostering in Wales
- Siblings, placement and contact: podcast
- Understanding the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
- Foster care: transitions, beginnings and endings
- Life story work
- Attachment knowledge and practice hub
- Placement disruption: quick guide
- Working with advocates: quick guide
- Working with independent advocates
Additional
- Adoption support services
- The adoption process
- Learn on the go: adoption disruption podcast
- Trauma-informed knowledge and practice hub
- Therapeutic parenting
- Safeguarding children and young people online
- Child development: 11 to 14 years: Dealing with loss in the family
- Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
- ADHD or trauma: working with the potential for misdiagnosis
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Working with adolescents knowledge and practice hub
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Learn on the go podcast: looked-after children and self-harm
- How parental substance misuse affects children: lessons from research
- Street drugs: categories and effects
- Domestic abuse knowledge and practice hub
- Learn on the go podcast: criminal exploitation and county lines
- Court skills knowledge and practice hub
- Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and practice hub
Specific
- Parent and child fostering
- Short breaks
- Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: lessons from research
- Radicalisation and social work
- Child sexual abuse knowledge and practice hub
- Children with speech, language and communication needs
- Working with children with physical disabilities
- Working with children with physical disabilities: quick guide
- Working with deaf children with mental health issues
- Gender and sexuality: ensuring social work meets LGBTQ+ people’s needs
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people
- Learn on the go podcast: social work with transgender people
Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs)
Please use the below sections to find resources relating to the workshop Programme for NQSW in their First Year in Practice. You can find more information and book onto the workshops here. Please discuss with your line manager before booking. Please also see group supervision and well-being sections which can be found in the “new starter” and “supervision” sections of the page.
Safeguarding Children
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding children and young people online
- Child protection conferences
- Pre-birth risk assessments
- Parenting assessments
- Learn on the go: poverty, child protection and the care system
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Child sexual abuse knowledge and practice hub
Substance misuse
- Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health
- Child development: the impact of parental substance misuse
- Working with adults and alcohol use
- Street drugs: categories and effects
- How parental substance misuse affects children: lessons from research
- Adults who use alcohol and other drugs: lessons from research
Decision making and analysis
Outcome focused and strengths-based practice
- Strengths-based practice with families
- A strengths-based approach to difficult conversations: quick guide
- Motivational interviewing
- Learn on the go podcast: motivational interviewing
- Signs of Safety: quick guide
- Systemic practice
- Learn on the go: strengths-based practice – podcast
- Alcohol misuse: practice scenario commentary
- Three conversations: quick guide
Applying the MCA to practice
- Mental capacity: knowledge and practice hub
- The Mental Capacity Act in relation to children and young people
- Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019
- Assessing capacity: quick guide
- Assessing mental capacity and making best interests decisions: in-depth guide
- Deprivation of liberty involving children and young people: in-depth guide
- Deprivation of liberty for 16- to 17-year-olds: quick guide
Training
Supervision
Case Law
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