Planning and Managing Permanence
This course revisits what is involved in planning and managing permanence options available to children/young people in circumstances of significant family breakdown, and how best practice decisions are achieved.
Child Care Social Work is complex and requires workers to have a breadth of knowledge and skills in working with children/young people and their families in these circumstances..
Course content:
- What is permanence?
- An overview of the statutory duties to children/young people in care.
- Assessments for permanence.
- Considering the options.
- Measuring change.
- Planning and progressing permanence.
- Managing statutory meetings for children/young people and their families.
- Difficulties of involving the child/young people.
- What matters to children/young people and how this is managed.
- Parental/family involvement in the process.
- Managing confidential information sensitively.
- Contact with family.
- Placement moves for children/young people.