On-Line Learning

• Every Child Matters     (www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/)
• SCIE (www.scie.org.uk )
• Research In Practice (www.rip.org.uk)
• Alcohol and Families(www.alcoholandfamilies.org.uk)- Excellent resource for working with children and families where alcohol and domestic violence are featured.

Learning Materials

• Developing World of the Child; Aldgate, Jones, Rose and Jeffery, JK Pub, 2006
• The Child’s World, Ed Jan Horwath, JK Pub, 2005
• The Child Protection Handbook, Kate Wilson and Adrian James, Balliere Tindall, April 2007

A Child’s Journey Through Placement, Vera Fahlberg, BAAF

• Children’s needs – Parenting Capacity: The impact of parental mental illness, problem alcohol and drug use and domestic violence on children’s development, Cleaver, Unell and Aldgate, TSO, 1999
• A Practitioner’s Tool for Child Protection and the Assessment of Parents, Jeff Fowler, JK pubs, 2003
• Child Abuse and Neglect: attachment, development and intervention, David Howe, Palgrave McMillan, 2005 ISBN 1403948267
• Achieving permanence in foster care By Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek, ISBN 978 1 905664 58 0

• Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers. Brigid Daniel, Sally Wassell and Robbie Gilligan Jk

• Assessment in Kinship Care Cath Talbot and martin Calder Isbn 978-1903855867 russell House Jan 2006
• The Children Act 1989; Private Fostering and miscellaneous v8; guidance and regulations stationary office Oct 1991
• Communicating with Vulnerable Children, David Jones

Training Event

Title: Assessment & Analysis (2 day course)

Date(s): 13th & 14th December 2011,

                2nd & 3rd February 2012

Target Group: Newly Qualified Social Workers. This event is not suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• Be able to describe the key features of and process of assessment as it applies to their practice in assessing the needs of children and young people.

• Have considered key principles and values underpinning effective assessment and how these apply to their practice with children, young people, their families/carers and with other agencies and professionals.

• Will have a critical understanding of key theories and research that inform assessment practice with children, young people and their families/carers.

• Will have considered and appraised methods and tools that could be used when undertaking assessments.

• Will have considered the place of analysis within the assessment process including decision-making.

• Will have considered their assessment practice in relation to the evidence required to meet the Newly Qualified Social Work (NQSW) Outcome Statements

Contact

Lead Officer:

Jayne Paterson      

Tel No. 0116 2211706 (39 1706)

E-Mail: Jayne.Paterson@leicester.gov.uk

Booking & Administration: 

Zubair Mulla

Tel No. 0116 2211702 (39 1702)

E-Mail: Zubair.Mulla@leicester.gov.uk