The theme for this years AWS is ‘Growing our family through adoption’.
AFKA Scotland have planned two online events for social work practitioners and will be releasing a ‘research spotlight’ on supporting young adult adoptees.
Tuesday 4 November – 12.30pm – 1.30pm: Considering life story work within the context of contact/family time using the Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines
Dr Chris Burke will present this lunchtime webinar for Practitioners engaged in permanence work with helpful guidance on how we can facilitate life story work through the family time process. Chris has developed these useful guidelines which offer a framework for assessing contact considering the child and their relationships with the birth family member and their current Carer. To book, click the link below.
Wednesday 5 November – 10.00am – 12.00pm: Demystifying the Childs Assessment and Permanence Report (CAPR) in Adoption
This workshop, presented by Angie Gillies and Elizabeth Ross will provide a short introduction to the CAPR, and will explore its purpose, planning and information gathering, as well as reflect on some of the practice and challenges in writing the best possible report. It will be most helpful for children and families’ Social Workers new to permanence work and for more experienced workers embarking on this as a new area of practice. To book, click the link below.
To view all events taking place, please visit the adoption.scot website – click here.