Training services
Blended learning - benefit from our proven training capacity
At Child Centred Practice we understand that time spent in a training workshop is only a first step in the journey to building a multi-level skill set for social workers involved in complexity on a daily basis. We customise training that guides you through legislative and conceptual frameworks and how this knowledge applies to the very practical daily activities of your organisation.
Whilst seminars and workshops are important traditional training methods, our aim is to help you build excellence. We optimise results with an additional tool kit:
Case clinics: A more intense learning environment where a facilitator coaches participants to problem solve using a range of strategies that can be applied on-the-job
Coaching sessions: Supportive sessions where individuals bring an issue for discussion so that we can develop their personal analytical capacity and help them achieve best practice
Rehearsal: Monitored tasks in the workplace that require participants to use the tools and knowledge they have gained.
Promoting excellence diary: A reflective tool that helps people to log their daily experiences time effectively, while assisting them to examine their immediate experiences through their values, beliefs, knowledge and practice.
Networking tutorials: A moderated electronic password protected room that allows tutorial groups to discuss their reading and progress.
Evaluation: Options for robust traditional evaluation or e-learning module to create beneficial assessment for management.
Promoting excellence handbook: Each course has a customised handbook providing quality reference content to enhance the blended learning processes.
By using the blended learning approach, the knowledge developed becomes part of organisational culture, imbedded in the workplace by the participants and passed onto staff as a cultural norm.
Examples of our training services include:
- Workshops for practitioners to develop the analytical and recording skills required to work with ICS based on case study clinics
- Modules designed to train practitioners to use the ICS for practice and recording based on training on the IT system
- Modules for specific practice requirements such as assessment skills under the national assessment framework, Practitioners in Court, Motivating People to Change, Understanding Child development, Listening to Children
- Developing learning communities within social work practice – involving supporting special interest groups to research and write best practice manuals on selected issues
Fee structure
Programme module development
Seminars: £450 per day
Discussion session development: £450 per day
Workshops: £450 per day
Consultation and amendments: £450 per day
Example Programme delivery
5 seminars x 2 per day: £2,250
15 workshops x 2 per day: £3,375
30 coaching sessions x 4 per day: £3,375
Mileage £0.40p per mile. Accommodation/train fares charged at cost. Travelling time will not be charged.
Achieving excellence with innovation
- Increases individual analytical and intuitive skills sets which develops problem solving ability across the organisation
- Optimises your investment by face-to-face or computer mediated instruction as staff apply their learning to the work environment
- Creates an ongoing process that builds networks and best practice
- Provides an e-learning module and ongoing support.
Issues to consider when commissioning training
The benefits of the learning approaches have to be tailored to the user. This means that the commissioners of the learning modules have to be clear about their aims and outcomes, audience and resources. They cannot be lead by the provider, or implemented as a financial or time saving strategy alone. There are a number of difficulties which can be encountered if the initial commissioning is not thorough......see more
Some past clients
Testimonials
"I really enjoyed the training by Jo Fox. As a first experience of attending training in this area, I found that it more than exceeded my expectations. The course contained more than enough information and what impressed me most was the clear link between theory and practice. I will start to drip feed this into my supervision sessions and will undertake some further reading."
Paul Kelly,
CAF Co-ordinator,
Hartlepool Borough Council