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A warm welcome to our Social Services for Children workforce to Flintshire County Council’s Community Care Inform page. Community Care Inform is working closely with us to provide social work practice, legal information and learning tools in an accessible format. The resources found here will help you make and evidence your decisions, keep up to date with best practice and the law, and contribute to continuing professional development.
This page is the first of its type and can be used not only for staff inductions but to help equip our staff in their role. Whether you are just starting within children’s services or refreshing your learning journey, these pages are a hub of information to assist you.
Early Help Services
Level 1 Universal
CC Inform resources
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Confident direct work with children
- Assessments
- Child protection conferences
- Leadership skills knowledge and practice hub
- Tips for giving feedback to team members or supervisees
- Developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in practitioners
- Health and wellbeing of children in foster care
- Consolidation programme: quick guide
- Creating online reflective spaces when working from home
- Court skills knowledge and practice hub
- Writing court reports
- Writing up direct work for case records and court reports
Level 2 Information, Advice & Assistance
Level 3 Prevention & Early Intervention
CC Inform resources
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding children and young people online
- Child trafficking knowledge and practice hub
- Child trafficking: legislation, policy, guidance and multi-agency working
- Child trafficking: professional roles and responsibilities
- Learn on the go podcast: looked-after children and self-harm
- Parental mental health
- Mental capacity: knowledge and practice hub
- The Mental Capacity Act in relation to children and young people
- Assessing capacity: quick guide
- Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019
- Learn on the go podcast: the Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
Assessment
CC Inform resources
- Domestic abuse knowledge and practice hub
- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health
- Parental mental health
- Learn on the go podcast: looked-after children and self-harm
- Managing professional boundaries in social work
- Child development: two to five years
- Attachment-based trauma and parenting
- Court skills knowledge and practice hub
- Appearing in court: survival guide
Statutory Intervention
Level 4
Flintshire Resources
Part 4 Plan
Initial Child Protection Case Conference
Level 5 Children at risk
Flinthshire Resources
Level 6 Children Looked after Part 4
CC Inform resources
- Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Assessments
- Care planning and review: quick guide
- Videos: supervision – two approaches to supporting a practitioner after a difficult home visit
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Introduction to direct work with children: quick guide
- Confident direct work with children
- Placement choice and decisions for looked-after children
- Adoption: knowledge and practice hub
- Siblings, placements and contact: podcast
- Life as a child in the care system: lived experiences
- Matching
- Placement for adoption
- Birth families and adoption
Part 4 Plan
CC Inform resources
- Looked-after children knowledge and practice hub
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub
- Assessments
- Care planning and review: quick guide
- Videos: supervision – two approaches to supporting a practitioner after a difficult home visit
- Direct work knowledge and practice hub
- Introduction to direct work with children: quick guide
- Confident direct work with children
- Placement choice and decisions for looked-after children
- Adoption: knowledge and practice hub
- Siblings, placements and contact: podcast
- Life as a child in the care system: lived experiences
- Matching
- Placement for adoption
- Birth families and adoption
- Supervision knowledge and practice hub
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people
- Social work with transgender people:podcast and transcript
Part 4 Review
Assessment
Part 3
Part 4 review
Initial child protection case review
- Impact of prenatal neglect
- Impact of infant neglect: 0 to two years
- Impact of neglect on the pre-school child: two to four years
- Impact of neglect on the primary school child: five to eleven years
- Neglect: impact on the adolescent
- Learn as a group: neglect – understand what it felt and looked like for Jenny Molloy
- Video: neglect – a lived experience
- Neglect cases – a model for concurrent interventions
- Neglect – Interactive case scenario
Part 7 Care and support plan
PLO Care Proceedings
No Order
Special Guardianship Order
Family assistance order
Supervision order
Care Order
Remain at home
Foster/Kinship/Residential Care
Flintshire Resources
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