ZLAC Review Training: Developing Skills in Speaking with and Writing to Children
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TARGET GROUP
All professionals working with children, including Foster Carers. Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominately working with children) or above (including strategic leads) as set out in the Competence Still Matters training framework published by the London Safeguarding Children Board.
AIM
This training aims to:
- Identify and examine effective ways of communicating with children
- Develop practitioners’ skills and confidence when communicating with children about their past experiences of abuse and neglect
- Develop skills in writing directly to children
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course participants will have:
- Learnt about the prevalence of language difficulties for looked after children
- Reflected on the differences between neutral descriptions of behaviour and interpretations of behaviour when working with looked after children
- Learnt to re-frame ways of describing observable behaviour
- Critiqued examples of reports written to children with a view to writing future reports differently
- Have an increased understanding about ways of communicating with children about past experiences of abuse and neglect
TRAINER
Lisa Ogden – Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Pat Leroy – Independent Reviewing Officer
Lisa Ogden – Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Pat Leroy – Independent Reviewing Officer
Ellen Westwood – Clinical Psychologist for Looked After Children