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The Record Business (Children's Services) & The Write Way (Adult's Services) (Cancelled)
Reason for cancellation
Venue
Webinar: Zoom, Webinar
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
Admin Contact
Learning and Development (HRlearninganddevelopment@southglos.gov.uk)
Target Audience
CAH Staff / Social Care Staff
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Children and Young People
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care
Event description
The Record Business
This course looks at transforming the quality of your approach and how you record that new way of working: your assessments, care plans, visit forms, & all written work will be clear, concise and bring to life what life must be like for each child or young person you're working with.
To do this the course will show you how to draw on your knowledge from research, experience and practice combined with an understanding of the child's needs within their family or the context in which the child lives.
It will show you how the facts-analysis-judgement approach works: and how it will help as you move towards the Signs of Safety way of working.
This course aims to make you confident in understanding what is relevant and meaningful and then show you how to write that down effectively.
Please watch this You Tube video before attending the course: The Record Business - Video
The Write Way
Our course will take you through the practical steps of writing clear and concise records and writing sequential, powerful and rewarding reports whether they are briefing notes, chronologies, summaries, assessments, care plans, safeguarding investigation reports or court reports. We will show you how to tackle your writing with clarity and confidence. You will understand the importance of:
° defining your purpose; ° organising your evidence; ° thinking and structure; ° writing analytically; and ° presentation. We will also highlight the seven deadly sins of social care writing and recording and show you how to avoid them.
This course looks at transforming the quality of your approach and how you record that new way of working: your assessments, care plans, visit forms, & all written work will be clear, concise and bring to life what life must be like for each child or young person you're working with.
To do this the course will show you how to draw on your knowledge from research, experience and practice combined with an understanding of the child's needs within their family or the context in which the child lives.
It will show you how the facts-analysis-judgement approach works: and how it will help as you move towards the Signs of Safety way of working.
This course aims to make you confident in understanding what is relevant and meaningful and then show you how to write that down effectively.
Please watch this You Tube video before attending the course: The Record Business - Video
The Write Way
Our course will take you through the practical steps of writing clear and concise records and writing sequential, powerful and rewarding reports whether they are briefing notes, chronologies, summaries, assessments, care plans, safeguarding investigation reports or court reports. We will show you how to tackle your writing with clarity and confidence. You will understand the importance of:
° defining your purpose; ° organising your evidence; ° thinking and structure; ° writing analytically; and ° presentation. We will also highlight the seven deadly sins of social care writing and recording and show you how to avoid them.
Learning outcomes
The Record Business
- See the beauty and power of thinking;
- Be clear what is fact and what is judgement;
- Get analysis; Get outcomes;
- Get what's relevant, organise your evidence and make sense of it;
- Write cracking chronologies and summaries;
- Structure your work in a way that is logical, professional and easy to navigate;
- Form a clear plan of action that makes perfect sense and can be achieved;
- Ultimately save time looking at a computer and better spend it with children and families.
The Write Way
- ° plan your writing effectively
- ° structure your reports in a way that is logical, professional and easy to navigate
- ° make your reports look good
- ° write with confidence
- ° understand the importance of chronologies and summaries
- ° make your report easy to read and follow
- ° avoid getting stuck
- ° write well
- ° save time!
Start Date
Thursday 21 March 2024
End Date
Thursday 21 March 2024
Closing Date
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Times
10:00 - 15:00
Maximum Places
18
Cost
£103.50
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No