Mastering Assessment in Child Protection
Social Work in Child Protection: Professional Practice Programme
Prepare to be inspired with highly practical, research-based training that will equip you with ideas to implement in your social work practice.
Following each session, participants will be provided with a summary information booklet and resources to assist application of learning from the topic. This comprehensive session offers a deep dive into effective risk assessment within child protection, including a focus on how biases, pressures, and incomplete information can impact decision-making. Rich Devine will introduce cutting-edge strategies for using chronologies as powerful tools in risk assessment, avoiding common pitfalls, and ensuring defensible, child-centred decisions. Rich will also provide practical ideas to write analysis and assess capacity to change. Learning Outcomes: • Develop a deeper understanding of cognitive biases that impair judgment. • Learn advanced techniques for gathering and interpreting information to assess risk accurately. • Gain practical skills in using chronologies to track patterns and make evidence-based decisions. • Explore how to handle challenging situations where resistance or hostility may cloud assessments. • Build confidence in making ethical, defensible decisions under pressure. • Learn how to write an analysis and assess capacity to change
The Trainer
Rich Devine is a Consultant Social Worker, with over 14 years’ experience working with children and families in a child protection context.
He holds a Masters in Attachment Studies from Roehampton University, London (2018) and is trained in several attachment procedures. He is a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University. A writer of one of the UK’s most popular social work blogs, exploring topics such as direct work with children, assessment and relationship-based practice. He co-hosts the Relational Activism in Social Work Podcast with Tim Fisher.
Rich is the author of ‘Messy Social Work: Lessons from the Frontline’, a book published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, aimed at helping frontline practitioners with the nuts and bolts of their job.
View the full programme here - https://basw.co.uk/social-work-child-protection-professional-practice-p…. You can pick and choose topics as desired, no need to attend all.