Working internationally to share information, help build knowledge and support teamwork around babies, children and young people who are disabled, marginalised or vulnerable
The home of Team Around the Child (TAC) and the Multiagency Keyworker
Professor Marcia Worrell, Head of School of Psychology, Social Work and Human Sciences, University of West London
Lynn Perry, Director of Children’s Services Barnardo’s West
Plus Children’s Service Managers from Barnardo’s Safer Futures teams:
Lynda Regan - child sexual abuse recovery team; Nic Dunn - child sexual exploitation team
Steve Bore- sexually harmful behaviour team; Abby Ogier - domestic abuse team
Dr Sam Warner, Clinical Supervisor for Barnardo’s Safer Futures teams, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Looked-after-Children team.
Children and young people who self-harm present a major challenge for safeguarding services and numerous serious case reviews have identified many areas for improvement in respect of children and young people who are at risk of suicide.
Barnardos’ Safer Futures is a long established service in the North West of England that helps children and young people who are involved in risky behaviours move forward to safer lifestyles. In this conference we draw on the collective experience of Safer Futures to highlight innovative practice in working with children, young people and parents whose risk to themselves is sometimes invisible, very often hidden and too frequently misunderstood.
Experts from the fields of child sexual abuse recovery; child sexual exploitation, sexually harmful behaviour, domestic abuse and looked-after-children share their knowledge of current theory, research and personal practice to explain how to support and safeguard children and young people who use self-harm to cope, communicate and/ or as a means to end life.
This day will be relevant to practitioners at all levels, including their supervisors and managers, in all key agencies and organisations working in the safeguarding children arena. This includes practitioners who provide risk assessments, conduct investigations, provide placements or offer support, counselling and therapy.
We are exploring the possibility of delivering 2-day in-house workshops to health practitioners in New Zealand. The workshops will equip practitioners to support sleep-deprived families who have a disabled child or teenager.
This would be during the end of July and first part of August 2016.
These Interconnections workshops are for groups of up to 18 people and are delivered by Julie Sutton using the Handsel materials.
The 2-day course provides a sound knowledge of sleep theory and equips professionals with the specialist skills to support families of disabled babies, children and young people. The topics covered include:
Mechanisms of typical sleep, for example sleep phases and cycle.
Different categories of sleep disorder commonly seen in disabled children.
Partnership working with families of disabled children.
How complex health needs associated with disabled children impact on sleep.
Understanding the role of medication in tackling sleep disturbance.
Preventing sleep problems and developing positive sleep habits.
Assessing sleep problems using diaries and questionnaires.
Understanding how different strategies work and knowing how to apply them.
The training is specifically designed for frontline health and other professionals who work with families of children with disabilities / special needs, including doctors, health visitors, community children's nurses, school nurses and psychologists.
We are looking at this stage for expressions of interest. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The event ‘Caring for people with disabilities and older people: challenges, opportunities and (mobile/online) training solutions’ will focus on the importance of good quality personal caregiving (PCG) for people with disabilities and older people.
1st December 2015 at VLEVA premises.
The focus will be on caring in a broader perspective, and how M-CARE’s (mobile/online) training solutions contribute to successful PCGs
