Completing the New FORM F ASSESSMENT

One-DayIntensive Training Seminar

July 7th – Sheffield

July 9th – Croydon

The 2013 Amended Fostering Regulations

The New form F assessment incorporates the Stage 1 – offer to foster and Stage 2 – assessment of applicant

The Form F assessment will have a significant emotional impact on the lives of applicantsapplying to foster.

As a practitioner, you want to make well evidenced and well analysed assessments. You want to use your professional judgement to support good decision making.By the end of the seminar you should be able to:

Understand the principles and values underpinning fostering services legislation. To ensure all applicants are treated fairly and equally. To produce an evidenced based assessment which clearly differentiates between facts and opinions. To ensure that assessments provide a critical analysis of the information gathered.

Understand and comply with current fostering legislation and minimum standards. To be able to recognise acknowledge and reflect upon our possible bias. To be able to confidently recognise quality evidence gathering within the assessment process. To be able to criticially analyse the information gathered and make an evidenced based recommendation to panel.

To become professionally scepticial as to the veracity of the information provided during the assessment and to use your analysis and professional judgement to deliver well evidenced and well analysed fostering assessments and reports.

Who is this seminar for?

The seminar is suitable for social work practitioners working in the assessment arena who are making or contributing to form f assessments, as well as their supervisors or managers.

Venues;

  • Sheffield – Monday 7th July 10am – 5pm

Quaker Meeting House
10 St James Street
Sheffield
S1 2EW

  • Croydon – Wednesday 9th July 10am -5pm

Weatherill House
New South Quarter
23 Whitestone Way
Croydon
CR0 4WF

Delagate Fee

The fee for the one day seminar is £100 per delagate.

The seminar will begin at 10am and finish at 5pm. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. A certificate of continuing proffesional development will be issued upon completion.

Full payment is required upon booking. Please use the booking form below.

We hope you will find the above information useful. To reserve your place on the seminar please complete the application form below. Upon receipt of payment your reservation will be confirmed.

Clearlyhenderson does look forward to working with you.

TEL: 01608641153

MOB: 07906819662

Name of person/s wishing to attend

we are limiting attendance to 12 candidates to allow for sophisticated thinking and exchange of ideas.

Sheffield, Monday 7th July

London, Croydon, Wednesday 9th July

Name of orgainsation/ contact details

Will the person attending require any special dietary or other arrangements to be made

BACS Payment can be made to:

Co-operative bank

R B & C A Henderson

Sort code: 08-90-38

Account Number: 15307471

Your booking date will be confirmed when payment has been recieved.

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