Webinars and training

Using Dr Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model - how to effectively collaborate and problem solve with children and young people

Date: Tuesday, 5th December and Wednesday, 6th December 2023

Dr Ross Greene's CPS model has transformed thinking and practices worldwide in various services. It has been associated with dramatic reductions in adult-child conflict, concerning behaviours, school suspensions and exclusions, restraint use, and other harmful responses to children. This in-depth 2-day training course with Dr Greene will provide a deeper understanding of how to adopt the CPS model in your practice.

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Peer Reflection Session: The Truth Project - Learning the Lessons for Practice from Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

For Social Workers Working with Children and Families

Date: Wednesday, 22nd November 2023

This peer reflection session is a follow-up to our webinar The Truth Project - Learning the Lessons for Practice from Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse on the 8th November 2023. To meet Social Work England's CPD requirements, you must record a minimum of 2 different pieces of CPD. You must include a peer reflection with at least one of these pieces of CPD. This session will give you an opportunity to engage in peer reflection to form the basis of this CPD entry.

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The Truth Project - Learning the Lessons for Practice from Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Rescheduled date: Wednesday, 8th November 2023

The lessons from the IICSA and the Truth Project are essential to how we might work together to prevent child sexual abuse and protect those who have experienced it. This webinar is for all professionals who might encounter a person who is a victim or survivor of child sexual abuse.

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Meet the Editors

Dates: Thursday 19th October 2023, Wednesday 15th November 2023

In this series of themed online discussions, you will be able to discuss the challenges you face in your role, so we can better understand your needs. Upcoming themes include child to parent violence, social work apprenticeships, court reports, and practice educators.

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Make the most of your CareKnowledge membership

Dates: Tuesday 3rd October 2023, Wednesday 1st November 2023

Would you like to find out more about what CareKnowledge has to offer? Whether you're a new CareKnowledge member or you're curious about whether a CareKnowledge subscription is right for you, this one-hour session will show you how to get the most from membership.

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An introduction to MyCPD

Dates throughout September and October

In this session, we'll show you how to use MyCPD, CareKnowledge's integrated Continuing Professional Development tracker, to get started early this year.

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Previous events

New School Year, Same Struggles Ahead? Dr Ross Greene on how Social Workers and Educators can Break the Cycle and Make This Year Different

This webinar took place on Thursday, 24th August 2023.

If you work with children who struggle with social, emotional and behavioural challenges, the words 'Back to School' can signal exhausting and traumatic days ahead. This webinar is an opportunity to think about how you can support children and young people as they enter the new school year, equipped with a new understanding of behaviour and a positive way of addressing children's challenges that can bring about lasting change.

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Storytelling through case notes - language, empathy and validation

This webinar took place on Tuesday, 11 July 2023. Replays in video and audio format are available exclusively to CareKnowledge members.

Whether you are a social worker, youth offending team worker, probation officer, foster carer, teacher or police officer, you will have the responsibility of recording your understanding of a child and their story in different scenarios. If you’re passionate about the need to give young people the opportunity to see themselves validated in the notes you write, this webinar is for you.

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Implementing Dr Ross Greene’s Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) Model - learning from Warwickshire

This webinar took place on Wednesday, 26th April 2023. Video and audio replays are available now, exclusively to CareKnowledge members.

In this webinar you will hear how the CPS model came to be piloted in 34 Warwickshire schools in 2022 and is transforming thinking and practices across the county more widely, with tangible benefits already been felt by the children and practitioners involved. You will also hear how Warwickshire rolled out the model, the emerging understanding of the impact it is having and plans for implementation across children’s services more widely.

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Explosive and non-compliant children: moving from power and control to collaboration and problem solving

This webinar was broadcast on 7 February 2023. Replays are available exclusively for CareKnowledge members, in video and audio format. 

This two-hour webinar with clinical psychologist Dr Ross Greene will give you an understanding of the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model and how to apply it in practice. You'll explore what Dr Greene terms 'lucky' and 'unlucky' behaviours, critically reflect on your response to children who display these behaviours, and develop renewed confidence in your ability to make a difference.

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Working with child sexual abuse survivors: Trust and trauma in practice

This webinar was broadcast on 7 December 2022. Replays are available exclusively for CareKnowledge members in video and audio format. 

This two-hour webinar will help you to critically reflect on the relationships you have established with survivors, consider what survivors can teach you about how to develop trusted professional relationships, and understand what trauma-informed, person-centred practice with survivors might look like - and the support you need to deliver it.

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Relationship-based practice with adults - what is it, what does it look like and what are the benefits?

This webinar was broadcast on 30 November 2022. Replays are available exclusively for CareKnowledge members in video and audio format. 

This two-hour webinar with Heidi Dix and Dr Sue Hollinrake will give you an understanding of relationship-based practice and the opportunities it presents in work with adults. You'll critically reflect on barriers to relationship-based practice and ways to overcome them, and develop an understanding of the IDEAS model and how it can aid your practice. If you work with adults, this webinar is for you.

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Learning the Lessons from Punishing Abuse: Girls, violence and vulnerability

This webinar was broadcast on the 22 June 2022. Replays are available exclusively for CareKnowledge members in video and audio format. 

In this webinar, Dr Alex Chard is joined by Dr Katie Ellis, Lorraine Kahn, Dr Gilly Sharpe, and Wendy Tomlinson to discuss the key findings about the girls studied in Punishing Abuse – and to examine why girls' needs are sometimes harder to identify and to meet.

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What can we learn from the National Review of Non-Accidental Injury in Under 1s?

This event took place on Wednesday, 27th April 2022. Video and audio replays are available exclusively for CareKnowledge members.

In this webinar, CareKnowledge Head of Content Rob Mair is joined by Elie Godsi, author of the Psychologist’s Report which formed a critical part of the National Review, to draw out lessons for professionals to understand the key factors that must be recognised in order to identify those children most at risk of harm.

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Learning the Lessons from Punishing Abuse: Poverty, deprivation and empowering rich social work practice

This event took place on 16 November 2021. A recording of the session is exclusively available to CareKnowledge members in a choice of video and audio format.

How poverty-informed is your practice? Dr Alex Chard, Wendy Tomlinson and expert guest speakers explore how childhood poverty impoverishes lives – and what it is in your power to change.

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Learning the Lessons from Punishing Abuse: Why professional curiosity and knowing a child well matters

This event took place on 30 June 2021. A recording of the session is available to CareKnowledge members.

This session provides an opportunity to hear Dr Alex Chard discuss his recently published and highly impactful report, Punishing Abuse, with the Youth Custody Service’s Head of Safeguarding, Wendy Tomlinson. The focus of this session is on drawing out lessons for frontline professionals working in children’s services.

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