Evidenced-Based Children's Assessment 24/25

Target Group

This course is targeted to frontline practitioners’ e.g. restorative family coaches, personal advisers, family support workers, social workers and others who are involved in completing social care assessments or quality assuring these assessments, who work for the London Borough of Sutton.

Aim

The aim of this session is: 

• To support practitioners to undertake a good quality, analytical, evidence-based assessment to inform the decision making and care planning for children, young people and their family.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will have:

• An increased knowledge and understanding about the principles for undertaking an evidence based assessment;
• An increased understanding about the factors that are about not complying with social work ethics, values and standards, and the impact for the child and family;
• An increased understanding about inter-agency relationships, and how to escalate concerns if there is professional disagreement;
• An increased understanding about the importance of chronologies, genograms and  assessment tools in the assessment process;
• An improved ability to capture relevant information in case recording, assess and evaluate complex circumstances in the analysis to reach evidence based conclusions;
• An increased understanding about the assessment pathway across early help, S17 and S47 assessments and care-proceedings, and how information an evidence is transferred across the stages of intervention; 
• An improved understanding about how to set evidence based SMART objectives in care plans, and; 
• An ability to be able to recognise the components of an outcome focused plan that effectively measures change for the child.