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This course for practitioners in childcare services provides
an opportunity to explore the good practice issues when
working with black children and their families. Participants
should already have had basic equality awareness training.
The course covers a range of issues including meeting the
needs of black looked after children, working with
interpreters and undertaking assessments with black children
and their families. It also explores childcare practices within
different religious and cultural belief systems and considers
their impact on child protection and childcare work.
Learning outcomes cover:
- The importance of child-focused interventions/parent
interventions.
- The issues and challenges faced by individuals and
families within black and minority ethnic groups.
- Models, tools and techniques to help.
- The impact of institutional racism on service delivery.
- Child protection and cultural norms in the context of
childcare.
- Research findings and implications for practice.
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