Upcoming Eyes Wide Open – assessing risk in foster and kinship care (Online Workshop)

A specialised workshop for practitioners supporting and working with foster carers and kin

There are no risk?free options in child protection. While family?based care offers significant benefits for vulnerable children and young people, it also brings risk elements that must be recognised, assessed and actively worked with in practice.

This workshop offers practitioners the opportunity to deepen their understanding of risk assessment in foster and kinship care. Participants will explore the core concepts, processes and skills that underpin sound risk assessment and consider how these apply in effective support work with carers – including vulnerability, harm and likely harm, risk and protective factors in family-based care, contemporary safeguarding knowledge and the critical thinking abilities essential to this work.

The focus is on building a practice approach that promotes safety, stability, and continuity for children and young people in family-based care. Workshop participants reflect on their role and relationship with carers, and consider knowledge, belief and thinking errors that may impact in practice.This is a workshop designed to strengthen confidence, sharpen professional judgements and promote purposeful, effective support to carers.

Who should attend?

Any practitioner involved in assessing, supporting and working with foster carers and kin, their supervisors and managers.