Information on safegaurding
assessment training course: Evidence-based assessment, analysis
and planning in complex cases where there are continuing safeguarding
concerns.
Aims and objectives of the training
The aim of the training is to equip staff to make evidence-based
assessments and plans in complex cases where there are ongoing safeguarding
concerns. The key objective is to introduce and train practitioners
in the use of a model for assessment, analysis and planning using
the Assessment Framework in safeguarding assessments and
to build up their skills in applying the model in their work.
What is the model of assessment and
planning in safeguarding assessments?
The 7-stage model of assessment and intervention staff are trained
to use is described in Safeguarding children living with trauma
and family violence: evidence-based assessment, analysis and planning
interventions(2009) Arnon Bentovim, Antony Cox, Liza Bingley
Miller and Stephen Pizzey. London:JKP. The authors are all members
of the Child and Family Training team and they developed the model
and the associated training based on their experience, skill and
knowledge gathered over many years.
The model includes:
- Stage 1 - The phase of identification of harm and initial safeguarding
- Stage 2 - Making a full assessment of the child’s needs, parenting
capacity, family and environmental factors and levels of harm
- Stage 3 - Establishing the nature and level of harm and harmful
effects
- Stage 4 - Assessing the likelihood of response to professional intervention
in the context of the level of the child’s needs and the level of
parenting capacity and family and environmental difficulties.
- Stage 5 - Developing a plan of intervention to include therapeutic
work in a context of safety and protection from harm.
- Stage 6 - Rehabilitation of the child to the family when living
separately or moving on from a context of protection and support.
- Stage 7 - Placement of children in new family contexts where rehabilitation
is not possible.
What are the expected learning outcomes
of the training?
By the end of the training, participants should be able to:
- Make evidence-based assessments and plans in complex cases where
there are ongoing safeguarding concerns
- Apply the 7-stage model for assessment and intervention in complex
safeguarding cases in their practice.
- Evaluate the level of strengths and difficulties in the domains
and dimensions of the Assessment Framework triangle
- Assess the impact of parenting on the child’s needs and the
level of harm or likelihood of harm to the child and creating a profile of harm
- Make a systemic analysis of the factors and processes leading to
harm as well as protective factors
- Assess the risks of further harm/re-abuse and prospects for rehabilitation
and plan for intervention
Who is the training suitable for?
The training is suitable for staff in Children’s Social Care,
Health, and independent organisations and those who work as independent
social workers or Children’s Guardians, i.e. all those who
have responsibility for making assessments in complex cases where
there are ongoing safeguarding concerns. The methods and approaches
to assessment and planning in the safeguarding context which are
incorporated into this training are useful for core assessments,
safeguarding assessments and assessments being prepared for care
proceedings under the Public Law Outline or in Private Law cases
in relation to contact and residence.
What training options are available?
The safeguarding assessment training builds on our foundation training
in the use of standardised assessment tools (i.e. the HOME
and Questionnaires and Scales or the Family Assessment)
and the model of analysis, planning and identifying and measuring
outcomes using the Assessment Framework. There will therefore
be two levels of training:
- An advanced 2-day training on safeguarding assessments for those
who have successfully completed one or other of the two Child
and Family Training 3-day courses:
- ‘Assessing parenting and the family life of children,
including disabled children, using the HOME Inventory
and Family Pack of Questionnaires and Scales’
- ‘Assessing families in complex child care cases using
the Family Assessment’
- A 5-day training (with gaps between some of the training days) for
those who have not completed this training.
What sort of training course is it?
The training is based on principles of adult learning and the important
of a mixture of training input and practice when receiving training
in skills development. The 5-days course involves training spread
out over several weeks with the equivalent of a further two days to
undertake to gain practice in using the methods and approaches in
practice as part of the training process. The 2-day safeguarding module
involves a mixture of formal training and applying the model of assessment,
analysis and planning to case examples from training cases and from
participants’ own practice.
Who are the trainers?
This training is delivered by Accredited Child and Family Trainers
who have all been trained as trainers by the authors of Safeguarding
children living with trauma and family violence: evidence-based
assessment, analysis and planning interventions, Arnon Bentovim,
Tony Cox, Liza Bingley Miller and Stephen Pizzey who were responsible,
with others, for developing the evidence-based assessment tools
and approaches which form the core focus of the training.
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