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Training Resources - Module 2

Child Centred Recording



Making records count Seminar

For all levels – this seminar outlines the latest research and direction of travel within children’s services in keeping records. This will include a discussion on the developments of Contact point and ICS and any changes to legislation as well as best practice. This seminar will set the scene for the following workshops.

This seminar is open to all participants and can include multi-agency partners. It concentrates on recording as a task rather than on any specific form of recording and is intended to apply broadly across the spectrum of recording carried out in Children’s Services.
(3 hours)

Download Making records count Seminar documents

Making records count Workshop materials

Download  the level one - three Workshop documents to bring prior to attending the course.  Please download the level that you are attending to bring to the workshop.  You are welcome to download any materials on the site for your own interest and use.

ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE WORKSHOPS SHOULD BRING A PIECE OF RECORDING THAT THEY THINK REPRESENTS THEIR BEST WORK.  This work will not be shared within the class but will be collected at the end by the facilitator. 

Making records count Coaching materials

Download Making records count Coaching Session documents

PLEASE NOTE: there is an expectation that you will carry out one of the three allocated tasks PRIOR to attending a coaching session.  These tasks should form part of your daily activities and should provide a framework for you to use EVIDENCE BASED practice in your day to day work.

Please contact Maria Richardson if you are unable to complete a task prior to attending a coaching session.

Recommended Reading

Below is a list of books, websites and articles on the topic of recording that should support your learning.

Making records count reading list

  Recording in Social work not just an administrative task, O'Rourke Liz, 2010, The Policy Press, University of Bristol, UK

(available to buy at the CCP bookshop through Amazon)

Making Sense of Children’s Drawings, Angela Anning, (2004) Open University Press
This book explores how young children learn to draw and provides advice on how to make sense of children’s drawings
http://mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup

Putting Analysis into Assessment
Dalzell, R and Sawyer, E
(2007) National Children’s Bureau
A practical resource pack, intended to provide tools and ideas to enhance analytical thinking by those undertaking assessments of children in need. To be published early 2007.
www.ncb.org.uk

Write Enough, Walker, S, Shemmings, D and Cleaver, H, (2003) DfES
Write Enough is an interactive training pack, published by DfES to support good practice in recording in children's services. In addition to a range of exercises, Write Enough contains key messages from research, SSI inspections, Inquiry reports and best practice that are suitable for all practitioners working in children's services who are required to keep records.

www.writeenough.org.uk