Latest News from Workforce Development
Contextualised Safeguarding / Harm Away from Home Conference
- Darlington & what 'harm outside the home' means to us
- why contextualised safeguarding is so important for Darlington.
- 'Exploitation in Darlington & how do we make sense of it' - ERASE Team & Sarah Marsh, Exploitation Team Manager, Barnardo's
- 'The Power of the Relationship' - Collette Devlin Smith - Director of Edge NE
- 'My Journey' - Alan Patrick - Father speaking from experience
It will be held on Wednesday 2 February 2022 from 9.00-1.00pm via MS Teams & is available to managers & practitioners (including multi-agency partners) working with children, young people and families in Darlington. Harm Away from Home Conference Flyer [pdf document]
Upcoming Sessions
- understand the role of schools, additional agencies & parents
- understand funding & resources
- understand the role of professionals in the assessment process
- understand the circumstances under which an EHC request is appropriate
- understand the term ‘graduated response’ & professionals role in supporting this.
The sessions are available to any professionals working with children & young people in Darlington who have or may require an EHC Plan.
We all at some time experience a loss: an estrangement, a move away, a death. We have experienced the anguish, we have been comforted, we have gone through the grief process & as a result over time the loss – always sad - is hopefully resolved. Traumatic loss faced by children in care often experiencing one loss after another can be overwhelming. This course aims:
- to understand the profound losses at the heart of the looked-after system
- to examine the effects on the individual child
- to explore ways that foster carers can support recovery.
The sessions are available to Foster Carers & Fostering Supervising Social Workers primarily but spare places will be available to practitioners working with children in foster carer in Darlington.
Dates: Wednesday 19 January 2022 from 10.00-12.00pm via Zoom or Thursday 20 January 2022 from 6.00-8.00pm via Zoom
If any of the above sessions are appropriate to your role & you would like to attend then please email: Workforce Development to book a place.
Darlington Parent Carer Forum
Please see flyer for more information: Flyer [pdf document]
Social Work Training
North East Social Work Alliance is delighted to present a series of online training sessions. These courses are open to all colleagues working in social work & cover an interesting & diverse range of topics. All of the courses are listed in the Training Directory
New to the programme this week: Leadership & Management: Supervision Practice - please see the L&M Flyer [pdf document]
Community Care Inform
Just a reminder for DBC staff who have access to Community Care Inform that there are lots of useful articles etc. available online:
- Community Care Inform Adults [external link]
- Community Care Inform Children [external link]
Safeguarding Adults & Children
For details of Safeguarding Adults & Safeguarding Children training, visit the Darlington Safeguarding Partnership Website[external link]
Training Materials
The Workforce Development intranet pages contain some useful information, training materials & resources available to Darlington Borough Council staff.
Livingwell Darlington
You can also find us on Livingwell Darlington
Foster Carers
We have an extensive range of courses available to Foster Carers in Darlington:
- Caring for Children who have Experienced Sexual Abuse
- Caring for Children with Sexually Harmful Behaviours
- Contact for Looked After Children
- County Lines
- Deregulation & De-escalation in Looked After Children
- Foster Carer Review
- Good Practice in Recording
- Loss & Grief in Looked After Children
- Managing Allegations
- Managing the Challenges of Adolescence: The Teenage Brain
- Moving Children On
- Safer Care & Risk Management in Foster Care
- Secondary Trauma in Foster Carers
- Trauma Informed Caring for Foster Carers
- Using Transactional Analysis to Understand & Promote Attachment
- Working with Developmental Trauma
- Working with Transgendered Young People in Foster Care
- Working with Young People Displaying Self Harming Behaviours
CAMHS
CAMHS run a rolling programme of training including the following awareness raising sessions:
If you are interested in any of the CAMHS or Fostering sessions listed above, click on the Training Directory link where there are further details including dates & times, learning objectives & target audience. If the course is appropriate to your role & you would like to attend then please email: Workforce Development to book a place.