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Working with
black families

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.