This course provides a detailed exploration of the regulatory framework, helping providers, managers, and staff navigate their responsibilities effectively. Participants will gain practical insights into key areas such as quality standards, safeguarding expectations, and operational requirements.
This seminar focuses on how to create clear, practical, and trauma-informed plans that not only support compliance, but also improve the quality and impact of everyday practice. Whether you’re new to care planning or want to refresh and strengthen your approach, this course will give you clarity, confidence, and tools you can use immediately.
Drawing on the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, the Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023, and the Ofsted inspection frameworks, this course provides the knowledge, tools, and leadership insight required to deliver excellence in residential care.
This seminar provides a comprehensive exploration of restorative justice approaches tailored for young people. Participants will gain practical tools for fostering positive change, managing conflict, and promoting accountability. Key areas include implementing restorative conversations, managing group dynamics, and understanding trauma-informed practices.
Many children and young people have experienced adversity that shapes how they relate to others, manage emotions, and engage with support. A trauma-informed approach shifts the focus from “what’s wrong?” to “what’s happened?”, building connection, trust, and understanding. Whether you work in a school, residential service, family support team or community organisation, trauma-informed practice is essential to improving outcomes and reducing the risk of re-traumatisation.
Neurodivergent young people may experience communication, attachment, social processing and emotional regulation differently. Without informed support, this can increase vulnerability to coercion, grooming, unhealthy relationships or restrictive safeguarding responses.
Children who experience disrupted attachments, trauma, or care transitions often struggle with fragmented identities and unanswered questions about their past. Life story work helps fill those gaps, offering a structured and therapeutic space for young people to process their experiences. Done well, it can promote healing, strengthen relationships, and support placement stability. This training helps practitioners avoid tokenistic approaches by focusing on readiness, participation, and creative, child-centred methods that honour each individual’s story.
Is your service prepared for its next Ofsted inspection? This focused and highly practical session is designed to give leaders and practitioners the clarity, tools, and confidence they need to approach inspection with assurance. Led by Rachel Holden, former Senior HMI at Ofsted, the course offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from someone who has led inspections across a range of children’s services.
Transitions between placements, services or stages of care can be some of the most destabilising moments in a young person’s journey. This development session explores how leaders can ensure that transitions are managed with planning, stability and relational continuity, reducing the risk of disruption and emotional harm.
Ensuring a safe and competent workforce is a fundamental responsibility for providers of children’s homes, supported accommodation, and fostering services. This training will guide you through best practices in recruitment, screening, and vetting, helping you reduce risks and enhance safeguarding within your organization.
Notifications are a legal obligation and a core indicator of a service’s transparency, responsiveness, and safeguarding culture. This training empowers managers and providers to treat notifications as part of their broader safeguarding framework and quality assurance cycle. A robust understanding of notification duties helps ensure that serious incidents are not only reported but also used as learning opportunities to strengthen care.
Matching young people to the right supported accommodation placement is one of the most important decisions services make. Poorly matched placements can quickly lead to instability, safeguarding concerns and breakdowns in support. This development session explores how leaders can strengthen their matching processes by considering risk, independence readiness, compatibility and the wider needs of young people preparing for adulthood.
