ZRecord Keeping and Communicating Effectively for Foster Carers

TARGET GROUP

This course is for Foster Carers

AIM

This course focus on helping foster carers understand the principles that underpin good record keeping, rules of confidentiality and information sharing with professionals. It covers a range of scenarios to help foster carers become more confident in their role and be clearer about what information to record and share with other professionals. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course participants should;

• Know about what to record and standards of record keeping

• Understand why, where and how to record information

• Be able to identify what records they are expected to keep

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• Understand the importance of safe storage of records.

• Have learnt about the law relating to record keeping.

• Be familiar with the rules of confidentiality and information sharing principles.

• Explored a range of scenarios to apply record keeping and information sharing principles, relating to the role of the foster carers.