Webinars and training

Make the most of your CareKnowledge membership

Dates: Tuesday 6th June 2023, Wednesday 5th July 2023, Tuesday 8th August 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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Meet the Editors

Dates: Friday 16 June 2023, Thursday 13th July 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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An introduction to MyCPD

Dates: Wednesday 14th June 2023, Wednesday 12th July 2023, Tuesday 15th August 2023

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

Date: 27-28 June 2023 (2 days)

CareKnowledge is thrilled to be able to offer an in-depth 2-day training course with Dr Ross Greene, which will provide a deeper understanding of how to adopt the CPS model in your practice.

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Storytelling through case notes - language, empathy and validation

Date: Tuesday, 11 July 2023

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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Previous events

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 will be exclusively available to CareKnowledge members soon.

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.

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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