The Safe and Meaningful Contact (SaMC) Guidelines offer practitioners an evidence-based practice tool for decision-making, managing and reviewing contact/keeping in touch/family time arrangements.  In this training, Dr Burke describes how to use the Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines. He discusses psychological factors that are key to ensuring the needs of traumatised children and young people are kept at the centre of decision-making related to contact arrangements across various contexts, including short-term or permanent foster/kinship/special guardianship care, and post-adoption.

Upon completion of the training, delegates will become accredited users of the Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines. This allows lifetime use of the PDF version of the SaMC Guidelines. Delegates also gain six months free access to the SaMC Online Report Generator. This generates a summary report that evidences and explains your input into the SaMC Guidelines, outlines the purpose of contact, and automatically produces a contact support plan.

About the Trainer

Dr Chris Burke is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist who specialises in developmental trauma. In his capacity as an expert witness in child and family law, Chris frequently offers psychological opinion about contact and residential arrangements and gives evidence in court. For more information about the SaMC Guidelines visit: www.samcguidelines.com

Who Should Attend?

Practitioners involved in decision-making about contact arrangements, including social workers, senior practitioners, social work team managers, alternatively qualified social care staff, directors of local delivery within child and family services, and mental health practitioners.

For more information and to book a place, download our Dr Chris Burke – Workshop Booking Form