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New style course - Coaching for Connected Carers and Special Guardians only.

These sessions will be very interactive, group led and conversational based. By using recognised coaching techniques Laura Wilkinson and Chris Hill will listen to your challenges and concerns. The premise is to stimulate thought, promote growth and gain a clear focus into a person`s strengths. By facilitating conversations and discussing relevant topics we hope you will increase clarity and improve confidence to move forward. Appropriate bitesize training or signposting may be offered upon completion of the sessions.

This course will take place in The Discovery Room, John Lewis Cribbs Causeway. We have secured a lovely private space in John Lewis where we can have conversations, tea, coffee biscuits will be provided.

Please go to the John Lewis staff entrance opposite the main bus stop, a member of staff will meet you there. Arrive 15 minutes before event starts.

If you have any questions, please don`t hesitate to contact the tutors on

Laura Wilkinson 01454 862610 Laura.Wilkinson@southglos.gov.uk or

Chris Hill 07749003099 chris.hill@southglos.gov.uk

PLEASE NOTE: YOUR JOINING INSTRUCTIONS AND ANY TRAINING MATERIALS ARE ATTACHED TO THIS EVENT. PLEASE READ THE ATTACHED RESOURCES PRIOR TO THE COURSE TO FURTHER YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORT YOUR LEARNING ON THE TRAINING.

PLEASE CHECK THAT YOU CAN ACCESS ZOOM PRIOR TO THIS EVENT. WE ASK THAT ALL USERS ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO JOIN THIS EVENT ON THE DAY. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND BOTH DAYS AND YOU CANNOT SWAP BETWEEN COURSES.

By booking onto this course, you are consenting to your contact details being passed onto the trainer.

Delegates attending this course are called upon to prepare statements and reports for use in court proceedings involving children and to, potentially, attend court to give oral evidence based upon those reports. The course will provide the necessary skills to enable delegates to produce concise, accurate and compelling written evidence and give guidance as to how to present that evidence to best effect in the courtroom. The second day of the course enables delegates to practise giving oral evidence in a formal setting and to be cross examined by our experienced barrister-trainer.


Who is the Course aimed at?
Social Workers in Children & Family social care

Joining link
12/09/2023 (09:30 - 16:30) Day 1 of 2:
Training Link
Meeting ID: 337 492 701 449
Meeting Password: 4qWmim

13/09/2023 (09:30 - 16:30) Day 2 of 2:
Training Link
Meeting ID: 365 028 469 123
Meeting Password: k2oQV3

The Purpose for the support groups



We realise that fostering can be really difficult at times. Perhaps the only people who really understand it are other foster carers and so therefore we want to give you a place to meet up.

There will be biscuits and/or cake, coffee, tea, and an opportunity for an informal chat at all of the meetings.

Although these will be informal meetings, each session will have a brief agenda, attendance list, and agreed group rules. This is to help those who don’t know anyone and feel awkward about coming along to a new meeting, to feel that they won’t be left alone on the side-lines.

Sometimes there will be speakers and topics as requested by the group, this will hopefully make it as relevant to your fostering as you like.

These sessions should be recorded on your Personal Development Plan (PDP).

This event is for foster carers only.

The premise of this session is to gain a better understanding of what carers require from training. Please come and have your say and share what has gone well and what could be improved from the foster training offer. Chris Hill is keen to listen to you and this will enable him to become clearer of your situation and how training could benefit you and your young person. This will enable South Gloucestershire Council to deliver concise training which is appropriate to your needs. Light refreshments will be provided.


This course will take place in The Discovery Room, John Lewis Cribbs Causeway. We have secured a lovely private space in John Lewis where we can have conversations, tea, coffee biscuits will be provided.

Please go to the John Lewis staff entrance opposite the main bus stop, a member of staff will meet you there. Arrive 15 minutes before event starts.

If you have any questions, please don`t hesitate to contact -
Chris Hill 07749003099 chris.hill@southglos.gov.uk

This training will help you to build the skills needed to perform well during the recruitment process.

We will cover limiting beliefs (negative thinking) – how to manage them so that you can achieve your goals, keeping a positive mindset, skills self-assessment to identify and apply your transferable skills and experiences, key points to help you create a great CV, application forms and expression of interest letters, and interview preparation.

The trainer will send any pre-course work directly to participants along with the course link (if virtual) via email.

By booking onto this course, you are consenting to your contact details being passed onto the trainer. This is so they can send the invitation, and any further resources, to you.

This workshop is for South Gloucestershire Council Adult Care practitioners ONLY.

The session will explore the importance of legally literacy and defensible decision-making in effective practice. Included will be a focus on:

• defining and developing an understanding of what is meant by both terms, from both a theoretical perspective and from your experience/practice
• ways to continue to develop your knowledge of the legal framework and how to ensure that it underpins your practice
• professional accountability and the importance of accurate analysis, free from bias, to inform your professional opinions and defensible decisions

This two-day course will provide practitioners and particularly those who may be new to undertaking, quality assuring or considering fostering assessments with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and practice in completing fostering assessments. This workshop may also provide a refresher for those wanting to reflect and build on knowledge skills and best practice in the completion of fostering assessments.

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This short workshop commissioned jointly by the South Gloucestershire Children’s Partnership and Safeguarding Adults Board will help you to understand how Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) work in South Gloucestershire, and give you confidence in knowing how and when to refer to MARAC. It aims to give an update about the roles of everyone involved. It is free to attend by anyone who works with children or adults in South Gloucestershire

• The South Glos. Practice fundamentals have been developed to reflect the changes that we need to build on as part of our Improvement plan.
• They support our practice by encouraging consistency and making organisational expectations clear.
• The delivery method is new, each module is only 90 minutes long and is content light and practice heavy- with a space to reflect built into the session. It’s about learning from one another.
• This isn’t about templates- it’s about the principles of good quality practice and how we can evidence and show our thinking, understanding and impact of our professional intervention effectively.
• There will be a rolling programme of modules on offer throughout the autumn delivered via Teams.
• They are open to all practitioners, including social workers, team managers, personal advisors, and social work assistants.
• This module explores Child SMART planning. This is because we understand ourselves well enough to know we need to make further improvement in our planning alongside families. This learning compliments other resources recently created too, so you will be able to add this to your knowledge portfolio and practice toolkit.
• After attendance and completion of the feedback form, you will receive a certificate. This can support your CPD.

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Meeting ID: 318 305 681 583
Passcode: VkwoJz