Dealing Effectively with Challenging Behaviour

Thursday 9th July 2009

An opportunity for professionals to develop their practice and explore how to effectively manage this pattern of behaviour in social care settings.

Delegates will explore what defines threatening behaviour and how it affects them. They will also have the opportunity to learn about risk assessment and risk management in this context and how to cope effectively with this type of behaviour in the workplace and when visiting service users and their families.

Supporting Young People Leaving Care

Wednesday 8th July 2009

This one-day programme will focus on providing practitioners with the skills and knowledge needed to support carers and young people at the time of transition from the care service to adult life. This course will have an emphasis on how to secure the future of young people who have been looked after.

This course is designed for all professionals who work with children and young people who have responsibility for integrated working in the context of leaving care.

Supervision Skills in Social Care

Modular Course - Module 1 – 8th April, Module 2 – 7th May, Module 3 – 3rd June, Module 4 – 30th June and Module 5 – 9th July

This series of 5 modular events developed by Positive Learning Ltd, is designed to explore the principles and practice of effective supervision in today's social care settings.

Progressing from the first event which provides an introduction to supervision and explores why effective supervision is so critical in today's social care. Each event then develops the knowledge and practice skills of managers and supervisors with the series finishing by looking at the development function of supervision and how to manage and keep up with the changing face of Social Care, group supervision and accurate monitoring and assessment of supervision programmes.

Effective Support for Foster Carers

Tuesday 26th May 2009

A one-day multi-agency course developed by Positive Learning Ltd. to focus on how the successful fostering of children impacts on the achievement of care plans, and how carers can be supported effectively. We will explore particularly the challenges and issues when looking after children who exhibit difficult and challenging behaviour.

MAPPA Awareness for Multi-agency Professionals

Wednesday 1st July 2009

Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) establish ground breaking partnership arrangements to assess and manage the risks posed by sexual, violent and other dangerous offenders, drawing on the contribution of a wide range of agencies

This one day course will enable multi-agency professionals to have an understanding of these arrangements and the implications for practice to promote the safeguarding of children and other vulnerable victims.

Supporting Young People Leaving Care

Wednesday 8th July 2009

This one-day programme will focus on providing practitioners with the skills and knowledge needed to support carers and young people at the time of transition from the care service to adult life. This course will have an emphasis on how to secure the future of young people who have been looked after.

This course is designed for all professionals who work with children and young people who have responsibility for integrated working in the context of leaving care.

Dealing Effectively with Challenging Behaviour

Thursday 9th July 2009

An opportunity for professionals to develop their practice and explore how to effectively manage this pattern of behaviour in social care settings.

Delegates will explore what defines threatening behaviour and how it affects them. They will also have the opportunity to learn about risk assessment and risk management in this context and how to cope effectively with this type of behaviour in the workplace and when visiting service users and their families.

Responding to the Needs of Female Sex Workers

Thursday 3rd September 2009

This one-day programme will focus on the complexity of needs and issues relating to street based sex workers in London and strategies to engage this client group into services.

It is based on the principles and practices of harm minimisation and around developing effective and empathic multi-disciplinary approaches to working with this vulnerable and challenging client group. This day is not a workshop on exiting strategies and it focuses only on adult female sex workers.

Chairing CP Case Conferences for New Chairs

Tuesday 22nd September 2009

This event is designed for new Chairs or those people expecting to take on the role of 'Chair' at Child Protection Case Conferences in the near future.

It addresses the very specific skills, responsibilities and problems faced by Chairs of these case conferences, provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics of such multi-agency meetings and how to ensure effective anti-discriminatory practice in the context of the case conference.