CHILDREN & YOUNG
PEOPLE’S DEVELOPMENT

• Child development
• Attachment
• Sex, sexuality and looked after young people
• Children, young people and mental health
• Children who misuse drugs and alcohol
• Maintaining identity
• Resilience, risk and protective factors
• Neglect

SAFEGUARDING & PROMOTING THE
WELFARE OF CHILDREN

• Substance misuse and parenting
• Mental health and child protection
• Learning disability and parenting
• Emotional abuse and neglect
• Children with sexually harmful behaviours
• Global sexual exploitation of children
• Physical abuse and neglect
• Child sexual abuse
• Domestic abuse
• Protecting children with disabilities
• Fit for practice in child protection
• Achieving best evidence
• Working together
• Court work
• Analysis and Decision making
• Chairing and managing child protection conferences
• Chairing looked after reviews
• Consulting with young people

SHARING INFORMATION

• Developing a common language
• Working together
• Common Assessment Framework
• Information Sharing and Assessment
• The Assessment Framework
• Scales, tools and questionnaires
• Evidence-based practice
• Report writing and recording

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION & ENGAGEMENT

• Advocacy skills
• Promoting participation
• Managing difficult behaviour
• Engaging reluctant and resistant families
• Listening to children
• Communicating with disabled children
• Working with interpreters
• Equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
• Working with black families
• The theory and practice of working with men
• Working with fathers
• Chairing and managing child protection conferences
• Chairing core groups
• Chairing looked after reviews
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Chairing family meetings

SUPPORTING TRANSITIONS

• Life story work
• Leaving care
• Pathway planning for care leavers
• Transitional planning for disabled children

INTER-AGENCY WORKING

• Mental health and child protection
• Children, young people and mental health
• Children and young people who misuse drugs and alcohol

LEGISLATION

• Working together
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004
• Adoption and Children Act 2002
• Sexual Offences Act 2003
• Performance Managing diversity
• Using Leadership Skills to Manage