| 8:00 |
Registration and coffee
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| 9:00 |
Chair's introduction
Judy Cooper, Children’s Editor, Community Care
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| 9:10 |
Understanding the implications of the Early Intervention Review, the Munro Review and C4EO’s report Grasping the Nettle on practices
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What constitutes an early intervention?
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Demonstrating the challenges and opportunities in supporting children, families and communities through early intervention, based on effective local and national practice
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Implications of the Munro Review on Early Intervention - Professor Munro’s Review proposes the development of multi-agency teams of social workers, police and health embedded in communities and universal services for agency workers. This session examines how multi-agency working can be improved
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| 9:50 |
'LIFE but not as we know it' - An overview of the LIFE project
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Family Engagement
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Systemic Frustrations
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A New Way of Working - LIFE
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| 10:30 |
Refreshment break
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| 10:50 |
Choose between the following sessions:
Workshop session 1 – Practical ways to help parents understand the emotional needs of the child
· Helping parents recognise the importance of their role in all areas of development
· The role of the health visitor in promoting positive parenting skills
Eileen Murphy, Practitioner and Trainer, Eileen Murphy Consultants & Associates
Workshop session 2 - Developing better assessment techniques
· Analysing ‘risk’ in child protection assessment
· Treatability and timescales for children
· Good decision making for children
Steven Bamborough, Service Manager of the Monroe Family Assessnebt Service, General Manager of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC), Consultant Social Worker at the Tavistock Clinic
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| 11:50 |
Choose between the following workshops
Workshop 3 – Understanding what constitutes inappropriate sexual behavioral development
. What's normal and when we should be concerned
. What constitutes sexual abuse in young children
. The impact of early sexual abuse
Anne Davies, Chief Executive, Jigsaw 4U
Workshop 4 – Communicating with children
· Understanding and Using Children's Language
. Using Play to Communicate with Children
. Practical Demonstration
Mary Walsh, Chief Executive , SACCS
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| 12:50 |
Lunch
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| 13:50 |
Systemic and Behavioural Intervention Focus in Hackney
Social Work through a Clinical Lens - Hackney's focus on achieving change in families using Systemic and Behavioral Approaches to intervention
Tina McElligott, Head of Services for Prevention Services, Hackney Council
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| 14:30 |
Tackling problems at the early stages
. Early Intervention - from "Fire Fighting" - how to do it
. Community Budgets with Complex Families
. Building on resilience
Dave Hill, Executive Director for Schools, Children and Families, Essex County Council
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| 15:10 |
Refreshment break
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| 15:30 |
How do we best protect and promote the wellbeing of children: Hopefulness and avoiding parental despair vs. finding hope on the other side of parental despair
An interactive rolling real case involving the escalation of child protection concerns and then de-escalating into early intervention. Participants will be invited to take part in discussing: concerns, analyse risks and strengths, formulating plans of intervention - measuring outcomes. Participants will use specific theoretical models: systemic, solution focused, other cognitive and behavioural and psychodynamic models to make sense of the case and in the construction of interventions.
This will be followed by analysis and consideration given to the effectiveness of different theoretical approaches to this case and participants will reflect on the implication if any for their practice
Perdeep Gill, Independent Safeguarding Advisor and Consultant |
| 16:30 |
Chair's conclusions
Judy Cooper, Children’s Editor, Community Care
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| 16:40 |
Close of conference
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