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Parental responsibility
Understanding who holds parental responsibility for children is essential in work with families. This crucial concept underpins issues of consent, data protection, private fostering and child protection, to name but a few. However, too many practitioners assume that the people who the child is living with have 'PR'...
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Introduction to child protection
Keeping children safe is everybody’s business and this short training package gives basic advice and information on abuse and neglect, recognising signs and symptoms and what to do next. Participants complete a quiz and can print off a free reminder leaflet and certificate on completion of the course.
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Introduction to private fostering
Caring for other people’s children is a big responsibility and all professionals have a duty to ensure the local authority assesses and monitors children living with other people. Within around 20 minutes students will receive enough information to be able to identify a private fostering arrangement and to know what to do next.
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