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Training & Workshops

Our Practice Programme delivers practice workshops, evidence seminars, bespoke training sessions, and conferences on cutting-edge topics, and caters to adoption professionals in all types of agencies and organisations.

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7th
Dec
2023
Online

Blended Families: Adoption from the Birth Child’s Perspective

Expert-led training delivered by Jan Way MBE, IAC The Centre for Adoption

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5.5 CPD
12th
Dec
2023
Online

Assessing Prospective Adopters Considered for Sibling Groups

Training session delivered by Maggie Davies and Rachel Makin, senior adoption practitioners at Coram Ambitious for Adoption

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6 CPD
18th
Jan
2024
Online

Therapeutic Toolkits for Social Workers to provide Good Quality Support to Adoptive Families

Expert-led training session co-delivered with Joanna Parker, Child and Family Therapist at PAC-UK

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6 CPD
24th
Jan
2024
Online

Keeping Adopted Children Safe Online: Specialist Digital Safeguarding for Adoption Practitioners

Bespoke training course delivered by Tammie Redman, a qualified Safeguarding Consultant

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6 CPD
7th
Feb
2024
Online

Overcoming Blocked Care: How to Help Adoptive Parents to Reconnect

Expert-led training session co-delivered with Sarah Naish and Sarah Dillon from The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma

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6 CPD
15th
Feb
2024
Online

Adoption Panels: How to be a Confident Panel Member

Expert-led training session co-delivered by Elaine Dibben, an independent Social Work Consultant

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6 CPD
22nd
Feb
2024
Online

Assessing Second-time Adopters: Considering Best Practice

Practice webinar co-delivered with ARC Adoption

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3.5 CPD
28th
Feb
2024
Online

Good Practice Guides and Post Adoption Contact: Practice Implications and Reflections for Adoption Professionals

Practice session co-delivered with St David's Society

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6 CPD
6th
Mar
2024
Online

Supporting Adoptive Families Parenting Children with Autism (including Children diagnosed with Autism Post-adoption)

Expert-led training session co-delivered with Dr Helen Rodwell, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a Certified Theraplay Practitioner,

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6 CPD
14th
Mar
2024
Online

Supporting Adoptive Parents experiencing Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue

Expert-led training session co-delivered with David Bell, a specialist practitioner at Body & Soul

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6 CPD
21st
Mar
2024
Online

Assessing Cultural Identity and its Implications for Adoption Placement

Expert-led training session co-delivered with Dr Beverley Prevatt Goldstein, an academic, social worker and author

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6 CPD
11th
Apr
2024
Online

Adoption Assessment Report (AAR): Making Adoption Assessments more Effective for Children with Complex Needs and those Children who wait the longest

Practice session co-delivered with Senior Adoption Practitioners at Barnardo's

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6 CPD
17th
Apr
2024
Online

Understanding Complex Identity of Children in Adoption: A Journey through Race, Religion and what Adopted Children need from You

Evidence based seminar co-delivered with Dr Sariya Cheruvallil - Contractor and Kusha Anand from Coventry University

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6 CPD
21st
Apr
2024
Online

The transition from Foster Care to Adoption: The UEA Moving to Adoption Model in Practice

Evidence seminar co-delivered with the Moving to Adoption research team at University of East Anglia

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6 CPD
1st
May
2024
Online

Developmental Trauma and Sensory Processing Challenges in Adopted Children

Expert-led training session delivered by Helen Stringfellow, Occupational Therapist at Adoption Matters

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6 CPD
15th
May
2024
Online

Therapeutic Innovations: Arts-Based and Body-Focused Interventions for Supporting Adoptive Families

Practice webinar co-delivered with senior adoption practitioners at Coram

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6 CPD
21st
May
2024
Online

Adoption Services and Ofsted, Inspections and Recent Developments

Expert-led practice session with OFSTED Inspectors

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6 CPD
6th
Jun
2024
Online

Access to Records and Peer Support Service for Adopted Adults

Practice session co-delivered with senior adoption practitioners at Adoption UK

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6 CPD
9th
Jul
2024
Online

Managing Family Time for Infants in Early Permanence Placements

Evidence based seminar co-delivered with Ruth Copson from the University of East Anglia

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6 CPD
10th
Oct
2024
Online

“Left in the Dark” – Ensuring Birth Parent’s Voices are heard throughout the Adoption Process and beyond

Training session co-delivered with a senior adoption practitioner Ally Osnowska at PACT

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6 CPD