Commissioned Training
AFKA Scotland can provide bespoke, commissioned training for agencies with a specific requirement. Please contact us directly to enquire about booking a commissioned training or download our Training Topics Brochure
Some of the topics about which we have provided training in the past include:
- Achieving best outcomes at children’s hearings
- Adoption support
- After care and continuing care – what has changed and what will stay the same?
- Assessing LGBTI carers and adopters
- Assessment of adopters and foster carers
- Assessing adoption and fostering applicants from diverse backgrounds
- Applying the secure base model
- Be court ready – keeping knowledge and skills current
- Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
- Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011
- Contact: good practice considerations for children
- Contact in foster placements and post adoption
- Direct work with children when permanence is planned
- Disruptions in permanent placements
- Does sexual orientation matter in adoption and fostering assessments?
- Introduction to adoption and fostering panels
- Introduction to kinship care panels for new panel members
- Kinship care assessments
- Kinship care panel training
- Legal aspects of permanence planning
- Legislation – an overview of child care law in Scotland
- Life story work
- Linking, matching and sustaining placements
- Making a difference at Children’s Hearings – all you need to know to be confident, effective and informed
- Managing challenging behaviour
- Minute taking for adoption and fostering panels
- Moving children onto permanent placement
- Panel training for adoption and fostering panels
- Placing black and minority ethnic (BME) children
- Protecting children in family placement
- Reviewing foster carers: roles and responsibilities
- Report writing for courts and children’s hearings
- Social media training
- The Child Adoption Permanence Report (CAPR)
- The role of the supervising social worker
- Together or apart – assessing and planning for the permanent placement of siblings