Darlington Children’s Social Care – Learning and Quality Resources
Welcome to Darlington’s Services for people, learning and quality resources
James Stroyan – Group Director of People
The creation of bespoke Darlington Community Care Inform pages, alongside a strong Workforce Development Training Programme, is an investment in you as a valued member of the Darlington team.
The resources available here will help you to achieve good outcomes for children, young people, adults and families that you work with, by supporting you to practice in an evidenced based way. Accessing these resources is simple and straightforward and will enable you to use your time effectively and provide good a good quality service, all as part of your learning and workforce development journey that we offer in Darlington.
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is everyone’s business. Our shared commitment to children, young people and families pushes us to continuously improve our everyday practice. We strive to encourage, nurture, support, listen to and learn from our staff, our partners and most importantly our children, young people and families here in Darlington. Working together, “WITH people, not doing FOR or TO people” will help us to achieve real quality across the service and the borough. We have highlighted below emerging themes from our recent quality audits. In the centre column below, you’ll find links to our current quality pages on Darlington’s intranet.
To explore the resources further, please click on the drop down menus below.
Chronologies and genograms
CC Inform resources
- Practice guide to writing chronologies
- Learn as a group – learning from the Ellie Butler Serious Case Review
- Chronology for the Ellie Butler learn as a group task
- Guide to writing court reports (includes a section on chronologies)
- Guide to systemic practice (includes tips on using genograms)
Darlington team resources
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Relational and reflective supervision
CC Inform resources
- Knowledge and practice hub – Supervision
- Reflective Supervision – podcast and transcript
- Supervision – quick guide to models and tools
- Guide to systemic practice with a focus on relational practice
Darlington team resources
- You may have local assets/resources or internal policy documents or best practice guides that you’d like us to reference here? PLEASE PROVIDE
Assessments
CC Inform resources
- Quick guide to assessments
- Practice Guide – parenting assessments
- Pre-birth risk assessments
- Guided parenting tasks assessment tool
- Case study – presenting guided parenting assessments in court
- Case study – using attachment theory in a parenting capacity assessment
- Disconnected and extremely insensitive parenting measure (DIP Scale) : assessment tool
- Prospective adopters – recruitment preparation and assessment
- Using an adult attachment interview to make more accurate assessments
Darlington team resources
- You may have local assets/resources or internal policy documents or best practice guides that you’d like us to reference here? PLEASE PROVIDE
Contextual safeguarding
CC Inform resources
- Contextual Safeguarding – key considerations for applying the approach
- Contextual Safeguarding – podcast
- Contextual Safeguarding – podcast transcript
- CSE – supported learning case scenario – includes an example of contextual safeguarding in action
Darlington team resources
- You may have local assets/resources or internal policy documents or best practice guides that you’d like us to reference here? PLEASE PROVIDE
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