Five Rivers in partnership with Community Care Confrences

Therapeutic Approaches to Promote the Resilience and Healing for Looked-After Children

In Loco Parentis- the recent Demos report produced for Barnardo's, claims that delays in taking a child into care can cost £30,000 per child, every year. Barnardo's chief executive Martin Narey said:

"We must urgently adopt a more proactive and positive use of care, one where care is used earlier
and more effectively so that it becomes a means of real cost avoidance." But the cost to children can be much higher.

The effects of abuse, trauma and neglect all impact the child's development - particularly in terms of neuroscience, resilience, attachment issues and behavioural and regulation difficulties experienced by our most vulnerable children and young people. Balanced against this, local authorities have concerns that the current level of referrals to care aren't sustainable in the context of current financial constraints and expected budgetary cuts.

Top five reasons for attending:

• Discover creative ways of providing services within limited resources for better medium and long-term outcomes
• Understand how abuse, trauma and neglect affect child development
• Effectively support children and young people who have experienced traumatic experience
• Develop practical tools to work effectively with emotionally fragmented children and young people
• Consider the new Resilience Monitoring model - a new way of working in education and care settings

Overview: Delegates attending this conference will hear the leading experts in the field of looked-after children provide the underpinning theory of how traumatic events impact on child development. It will also deliver groundbreaking innovations in therapeutic approaches to promote the healing process and facilitate best outcomes for children and young people.

Further Information http://www.traumaandtreatment.co.uk

Developing The Childcare Workforce

Improving Outcomes through integrated working

Five Rivers is pleased to announce that we are co-sponsoring the 6th National Conference in association with our practice partner The Pillars of Parenting.

In Seminar 3 together we will be showcasing our integrated model of child care which includes the application of a combination of related theoretical and practical training and support programmes for the child care workforce.

In this workshop we will demonstrate how we support our practitioners to deliver related appropriate interventions through a model of 'Authentic Warmth' within authoritative parenting style that predicts child well being across a wide spectrum of services.

Our Managing Director Andrew Constable will be sitting on the discussion panel 'supporting multi-agency working' to further explore the benefits of an integrated approach in Children's Services.

Purpose of the national conference.

• Examine the implications of the new LAC sufficiency duty, and advise commissioners on issues this brings up around market management, regional commissioning, demand prediction, needs analysis, spot purchasing and procurement skills
• Hear from Ofsted regarding their new framework for statutory inspection of Children's Centres
• Provide Directors of Children's Services with experience of effective on-the-ground practice as part of their professional development, including joint funding agreements and involving parents in shaping services
• Examine issues around the governance of children's centres, and hear proposals to empower parents further
• Advise delegates on the duty to consult, which new legislation will extend to include when an early childhood service starts or stops being provided at a centre, or the location of a service changes
• Examine issues around the co-location of services, and the practical implications of delivering various early childhood services through children's centres
• Learn about activity at the regional level to address the deficit in recruitment of children's social workers

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