Welcome to our Wrexham Social Care Learning Resource
Welcome to Wrexham’s page for learning quality resources
The creation of a bespoke Community Care Inform Page, alongside a strong Workforce Development Training Programme, is an investment in you as a valued member of the Wrexham Team.
The resources available here will help you to achieve good outcomes for children, young people, adults and families that you work with, by supporting you to practice in an evidenced based way. Accessing these resources is simple and straightforward and will enable you to use your time effectively and provide a good quality service, all as part of your learning and workforce development journey that we offer in Wrexham.
We’ve selected a range of resources to fit with your individual’s team’s current focuses for learning. To explore the resources that relate to your team, please click on your team name below to view your own range of topics.
As a Department, we value and encourage open communication and feedback. Any suggestions on how your pages can be improved or on areas which require practice development can be sent to scpractice@wrexham.gov.uk
Assessment and Intervention Team (AIT)
CC Inform resources
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Confident direct work with children
- Assessments
- Child protection conferences
- Leadership skills knowledge and practice hub
- Tips for giving feedback to team members or supervisees
- Developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in practitioners
- Health and wellbeing of children in foster care
- Consolidation programme: quick guide
- Creating online reflective spaces when working from home
- Court skills knowledge and practice hub
- Writing court reports
- Writing up direct work for case records and court reports
Disability Team
Emergency Duty Team (EDT)
CC Inform resources
- 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
- 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
Family centres
CC Inform resources
- Domestic abuse knowledge and practice hub
- Wales knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health
- Wales: resources for practitioners
- Parental mental health
- Learn on the go podcast: looked-after children and self-harm
- Managing professional boundaries in social work
- Child development: two to five years
- Attachment-based trauma and parenting
- Court skills knowledge and practice hub
- Appearing in court: survival guide
Fostering
Family Support Team (FST)
CC Inform resources
Integrated Family Support Service (IFSS)
CC Inform resources
- 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
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: assessing and meeting needs
- 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
Looked After Children (LAC)
CC Inform resources
- Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Assessments
- Care planning and review: quick guide
- 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
- Adoption: knowledge and practice hub
- Siblings, placements and contact: podcast
- Life as a child in the care system: lived experiences
- Matching
- Placement for adoption
- Birth families and adoption
- Supervision knowledge and practice hub
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people
- Social work with transgender people:podcast and transcript
Leaving Care (LC)
North Wales Adoption Service (NWAS)
Prevention and Support Service (PASS)
CC Inform resources
- Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub
- ‘Contact’ for looked-after children: a trauma-informed approach
- Working with birth parents of looked-after children
- Attachment knowledge and practice hub
- Attachment – understanding the theory: quick guide
- Attachment theory: applying it in your practice
- Guide to adverse childhood experiences(ACEs)
- Guide to trauma and a trauma-informed approach
- Fear and social work: podcast
- Managing professional boundaries in social work
- Working with adolescents knowledge and practice hub
- Neglect knowledge and practice hub
- Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and practice hub
- Learn on the go podcast: social work with transgender people
- Gender and sexuality: ensuring social work meets LGBTQ+ people’s needs
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Child sexual exploitation: direct work with victims and children at risk
Reunification Support Team
Prevention and Service Development
Safeguarding
CC Inform resources
- Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: lessons from research
- The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1818) (as amended)
- Multi-agency working: leading the professional network and chairing meetings
- Child-centred reviews for looked-after children and young people
- Deprivation of liberty involving children and young people
- The Mental Capacity Act in relation to children and young people
- Child protection conferences
- Domestic abuse: quick guide
Special Guardianship Orders (SGO) Support
Single Point of Access (SPOA)
CC Inform resources
- Writing chronologies
- Self-harm: podcast and transcript
- ‘Disguised compliance’: a relationship-based approach
- Fabricated or induced illness
- Fabricated or induced illness-podcast and transcript
- Writing court reports
- Assessments
- Street drugs: categories and effects
- Learn as a group: CSE – responding to peer-on-peer sexual exploitation
Tapley Avenue Respite Care
CC Inform resources
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding disabled children
- Children with speech, language and communication needs: quick guide
- Using Communi-crates in direct work
- Hearing the voices of children with disabilities
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: assessing and meeting needs
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: resulting differences for children’s services in England and Wales
Together Achieving Change (TAC)
CC Inform resources
- Quick guide to assessments
- Practice Guide – parenting assessments
- Pre-birth risk assessments
- Guided parenting tasks assessment tool
- Case study – presenting guided parenting assessments in court
- Case study – using attachment theory in a parenting capacity assessment
- Disconnected and extremely insensitive parenting measure (DIP Scale) : assessment tool
- Prospective adopters – recruitment preparation and assessment
- Using an adult attachment interview to make more accurate assessments
Intranet
Resources for Welsh practitioners