Courses can be designed to your requirements. A sample of courses provided are included for your information.
1. BME Children and Families
IKL Associates can design and develop individual training programmes to meet the needs of the commissioning agency. Training can be provided for professional staff or foster carers and would be facilitated by Black consultants.
Sample Courses:
"Training for Trainers - Assessing BME families"
"Caring for BME Children - Issues for Foster carers"
"Training for Trainers - Promoting Inclusive Practice"
Below are just some of the comments from course participants who have attended courses delivered by the IKL Associates Project Team.
"We would recommend this course to all carers, Social Workers etc. It has been really worthwhile revisiting the topics covered"
"We talked about really important issues which rarely get talked about"
"Made me more confident"
2. Safeguarding Children/Child Protection
We provide a multi agency approach to training delivery with facilitators from both Social Work and Health backgrounds.
Training programmes can be designed at both introductory and advanced levels for staff from a range of agencies including the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors.
Courses can assist in introducing safeguarding policies to staff groups, or specialist courses can be designed according to the needs of your organisation.
Below are just some of the comments from course participants who have attended a two day Safeguarding Children programme at introductory level delivered by our team.
"Increased my knowledge by 100%, also gave me confidence to assess situations and act accordingly"
"I feel much more confident about how to approach reporting concerns I might have regarding Child Protection"
"An excellent trainier"
3. Supervision Skills in Social Care
Courses can be designed for Managers/Supervisors accoording to the needs of your organisation.
Courses can also be designed for supervisees to empower them to gain the maximum benefits from supervision.
Sample Course:
Duration: Three Days
Suitable for: Managers and staff with supervisory responsibilities within social care.
- To provide participants with the knowledge and skills to supervise staff effectively.
- To gain a working knowledge of Kolb's reflective practice cycle as a problem solving model in supervision
- To understand the role of supervision in promoting anti discriminatory practice.
- To understand the factors contributing to underperformance and explore strategies for tackling this.
- To enable participants to review and record their current levels of competence and set goals to improve their supervisory practice.
Evaluation comments from three day programme:
"Having the opportunity to try out new techniques in a safe environment"
"Both trainers were 'fab' and walked us through all areas"
"Very good, a well paced course"
"The other people attending the course were very supportive, and everyone contributed to each task"
4. Common Assessment Framework
Courses can be designed according to the needs of your organisation based upon the DfES training materials.
If you would like to receive further information regarding of our services please contact us on 0191 4212346 or if you prefer why not email us
