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MHFA will give you the skills and confidence to recognise symptoms, provide initial help, and guide the person towards appropriate professional help.

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A workshop that will make you aware of poor mental health and have the tools to cope with situations with confidence

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This training course has been developed in order to provide Wandsworth Councils Children’s Social Services staff with a firm theoretical and practical understanding of Mosaic navigation, administration and Workflow functions, as well as Wandsworth Councils Mosaic recording standards.

As we emerge from the current crisis, we must rethink how we resource and deliver child and family welfare services. This must start with a better understanding of
the current national policy environment and the pressures faced by those working to protect and
support children and families. Drawing on research carried out for his new book, Dr Carl Purcell will share his thoughts on national policies
that provide the context for contemporary social work with children and families. He suggests that, moving
forward, we need to ask:
• What is the relationship between family support and child protection services?
• How can social workers work alongside other agencies to better identify and support families who need more support?
Dr Carl Purcell is a researcher working in the Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, part of the Policy Institute at King’s College London. He previously worked for 11 years in a variety of children’s services
policy roles in three London local authorities.
Carl’s research has involved interviews with prominent policymakers including government ministers, civil servants, local authority directors and the leaders of
children’s charities.
Carl Purcell (2020) The Politics of Children’s Services:

Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change is published by Policy Press.

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A look at how to structure you presentation and the things to consider. Working on the four quadrant approach.

The harm to children which arises from emotional abuse and neglect is interlinked and sometimes it is difficult to separate the two. While there are often visible signs of neglect, practitioners report emotional abuse can be hard to evidence. It can be a challenge to help parents and caregivers understand what emotional abuse is. Thinking about how to have conversations with parents and carers, helping them see how the effects of emotional abuse and neglect are cumulative, and then enabling them to make changes, can be complex. The day will give time to think though different ideas, using the experience of the participants to create new understanding and practice.

Dr Adrienne Barnett was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1981 and practised for over 30 years, for most of which she
specialised in Family Law, primarily representing parents and children in serious care cases and in private law cases involving
allegations of domestic abuse. Adrienne is now a Senior Lecturer in Law at Brunel University London. Her specialist area of research is
domestic abuse and the family courts, including parental alienation. She has published widely and presented papers at numerous
academic and professional conferences in the UK and abroad. In this webinar, Adrienne will discuss the emergence and
development of parental alienation (PA) in England and Wales.
Shewill consider the background into which PA first appeared in private law proceedings concerning children in England and Wales, and
examine how it progressed in the case law through the changing political and discursive context of private family law. She notes a
clear pattern of PA being raised in family proceedings and in political and popular arenas in response to concerns about and
measures to address domestic abuse. The case law revealed a high incidence of domestic abuse perpetrated by parents (principally
fathers) who were claiming that the resident parents (principally mothers) had alienated the children against them, which raises
questions about the purpose of PA.

While PA has had a chequered history and is not without its critics, it has become part of the discursive repertoire of current family law,
with increasingly harsh consequences for women and children.

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The workshop will give you the key safe principles of manual handling which will help you reduce the amount of risk to you when carrying out manual handling duties.

This workshop looks at how substance misuse can negatively impact on the welfare of children and young people. the workshop will include reference to the history and research of the variuos drugs commonly used by Wandsworth young people and the impact. How to support young people including signposting to National and local resources

This event is designed to welcome new children's services staff to Wandsworth, providing an opportunity to meet some of our service users and senior staff in a relaxed environment. Staff will be taken on a tour of teams across ther service, introduced to senior leadership and signposted towards further information about the Borough, and the structure of the Children's Services Department. The tour will conclude with tea and cake in the director's office in a relaxed atmosphere.
Our tour and tea emphasises the importance of keeping the child's welfare at the forefront of what we do and together with an individual induction programme arranged within each team, information available through Wandsworthi and relevant online courses, it will prepare children's staff for working in Wandsworth.