West Sussex Children, Young people and Learning
Welcome to West Sussex Children, Young people and Learning Page.
Welcome to the West Sussex focused area of Community Care Inform. This resource is available to all staff in West Sussex Children, Young People and Learning. Here you will find research, articles, podcasts and wider resources drawn from the Community Care library, and grouped in to the themes relevant to our work with children and families in West Sussex. Resources have also been grouped according to service ADHD or trauma: working with the potential for misdiagnoses, so you can quickly and easily access information relevant to your area of interest.
(Melanie Spencer, Principal Social Worker)
Team resources
Adoption
Assessment and Intervention
Children we care for
CC Inform resources
- Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Assessments
- Videos: supervision – two approaches to supporting a practitioner after a difficult home visit
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Introduction to direct work with children: quick guide
- Confident direct work with children
- Placement choice and decisions for looked-after children
- Siblings, placements and contact: podcast
- Life as a child in the care system: lived experiences
- Matching
- Placement for adoption
- Birth families and adoption
- Child-centred reviews for looked-after children and young people
Children with Disabilities
Childrens Emotional and Mental Health
CC Inform resources
Conference and Review Service
Early Help
CC Inform resources
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Child development practice support tool
- Neglect knowledge and practice hub
- ‘Disguised compliance’: a relationship-based approach
- Direct work tool: Social Graces
- Domestic abuse knowledge and practice hub
- Attachment: using the principles in assessments with children and families
Equality Diversity & Inclusion
CC Inform resources
- Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and practice hub
- Cultural competence
- Initial meetings with young people: an intersectional and systemic approach
- Anti-racist social work: podcast
- Direct work tool: Social Graces
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people
- Social work with transgender people:podcast and transcript
Exploitation and Missing
CC Inform resources
- Child trafficking: types of exploitation and risk indicators
- Responding to criminal exploitation and county lines
- Learn on the go podcast: criminal exploitation and county lines
- ‘Complex safeguarding’: an approach to protecting young people from criminal exploitation
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- The prevalence of child sexual exploitation: quick guide
- Case study: an adolescent repeatedly going missing
- Child sexual exploitation: prevention and strategic and operational responses
- Recovery orders for young people missing from care: London Borough of Brent v K [2015]
Family Safeguarding
CC Inform resources
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding children and young people online
- Contextual safeguarding: podcast
- Child protection conferences
- Child sexual exploitation knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding disabled children
- Using Communi-crates in direct work
- Court skills knowledge and practice hub
- Writing up direct work for case records and court reports
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding children and young people online
- Child trafficking knowledge and practice hub
- Child trafficking: legislation, policy, guidance and multi-agency working
- Child trafficking: professional roles and responsibilities
- Analysis and decision making
- Learn on the go podcast: looked-after children and self-harm
- Parental mental health
- Mental capacity: knowledge and practice hub
- The Mental Capacity Act in relation to children and young people
- Assessing capacity: quick guide
- Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019
- Learn on the go podcast: the Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Using Communi-crates in direct work
- Learn on the go podcast: motivational interviewing
- Strengths-based practice with families
- A strengths-based approach to difficult conversations: quick guide
- Attachment theory based ‘interventions’ (help and support): quick guide
- Practising during coronavirus (Covid-19): content hub
- Domestic abuse and Covid-19: podcast
- ‘Disguised compliance’: a relationship-based approach
- Strengths-based practice with families
- Solution-focused practice: quick guide
- Systemic practice
Family Time
Fostering (assessment and support)
Kinship (assessment and support)
Leaving Care
MASH
Permanence
CC Inform resources
Professional Practice
CC Inform resources
- Practice education knowledge and practice hub
- Practice supervisors and practice educators: making the model work
- Use of self and emotional intelligence: quick guide for practice educators
- Working with struggling and failing students: 10 FAQs answered
- Assessing students: a guide for practice educators
- Supervision models and tools: quick guide
Residential Care
CC Inform resources
- Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub
- The Visits to Children in Long-Term Residential Care Regulations 2011
- The Residential Family Centres Regulations 2002, Statutory Instrument 2002/3213 (as amended)
- Young person in care: practice scenario commentary
- Attachment theory and children in residential care: quick guide
SEND and Inclusion
CC Inform resources
- Working with disabled children knowledge and practice hub
- Direct work with
disabled children: case study examples - Children with speech, language and communication needs: quick guide
- One-page profiles
- Case study: improving transition by setting up a dedicated team
- The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 (Statutory Instrument 2014/1530), as amended
- Working with autistic children and young people
Virtual School
Voice and Participation
Youth Justice
CC Inform resources
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
- Child trafficking: professional roles and responsibilities
- Learn as a group: complex child trafficking case – what would you do?
- Direct work tool: Social Graces
- Domestic abuse knowledge and practice hub
Specially Curated Resources
Restorative Practice
CC Inform resources
Trauma Informed Practice
CC Inform resources
- Trauma-informed knowledge and practice hub
- Guide to trauma and a trauma-informed approach
- Guide to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- Applying trauma-informed practice in direct work
- Trauma-informed practice with young people affected by extra-familial harm
- ‘Contact’ for looked-after children: a trauma-informed approach
- Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue: a guide to support managers and practitioners
- Attachment-based trauma and parenting
- A trauma-informed approach to domestic abuse: quick guide
- Therapeutic parenting
- Therapeutic parenting: myth-busting quick guide
Neglect
CC Inform resources
- Neglect knowledge and practice hub/
- Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health
- Child neglect: overview
- Top tips for spotting the signs of neglect
- Neglect: lessons from research
- Neglect cases – a model for concurrent interventions
- Neglect: risk assessment
- Neglect: the impact of the legal framework and threshold condition on decision making
- Impact of infant neglect: 0 to two years
- Impact of neglect on the pre-school child: two to four years
- Neglect: impact on the adolescent
- Neglect: impact on the adolescent
- Learn as a group: neglect – understand what it felt and looked like for Jenny Molloy
- Video: neglect – a lived experience
- Webinar: neglect – how to gather and present your evidence
- Presenting evidence on neglect in court: quick guide
- Neglect cases – a model for concurrent interventions
Relationship based practice
CC Inform resources
Leadership & Management
CC Inform resources
Supervision
Motivational interviewing
CC Inform resources
Strength’s based practice
CC Inform resources
Contextual Safeguarding
CC Inform resources
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