Somerset Children

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Publication Date: 2 February 2022

Introduction

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Week 1. Language with CLA

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Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub
Life as a child in the care system: lived experiences
Learn on the go podcast: strengths-based practice in action
Strengths-based questions: quick guide
A strengths-based approach to difficult conversations: quick guide

Week 2. Professional Curiosity

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Three conversations: quick guide
Special guardianship orders: quick guide
Assessments

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Week 3. Trauma informed practice

Overwhelmed by feelings

Trauma-informed knowledge and practice hub
Applying trauma-informed practice in direct work
Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue: a guide to support managers and practitioners
Webinar: secondary trauma and social work
Guide to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Guide to shame and recognising how it may present in children (and adults) in the child protection system

Week 4. Young Carers

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Young carers: quick guide to the law
Siblings of disabled children: research review

Week 5. Mindfulness

Developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in practitioners
 Learn on the go: social worker burnout – podcast
 Self-care and Covid-19: podcast
Webinar: secondary trauma and social work

Week 6. Courageous conversations

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Relationship-based conversations: practice scenario videos
Three conversations: quick guide
A strengths-based approach to difficult conversations: quick guide

Week 7. CSE

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
A strengths-based approach to difficult conversations: quick guide
The prevalence of child sexual exploitation
Child sexual exploitation case law summaries
Dealing with a high profile trial
Forms of child sexual exploitation
Links to trafficking, offending, running away and substance misuse
Webinar: child sexual exploitation – addressing the challenges to protecting young people
Learn as a group: CSE – responding to peer-on-peer sexual exploitation

Week 8. CPD

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Social Work England CPD requirements: how CC Inform’s CPD log can help you
Facilitator guidance for CPD session: responding to peer-on-peer sexual exploitation

Week 10. Family Time

Family group conferences
Private family proceedings: guide to the law
Private law proceedings: writing analytical section 7 reports
Learn as a group: developing better care plans
How to develop social work care plans

Week 9. CAMHS

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Case study: working with child and adolescent mental health services
 Working with deaf children with mental health issues
Case study: the role of mental health coordinators in Essex County Council children and families
Working with teenagers in the care system
Learn on the go podcast: looked-after children and self-harm
Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health