Care Planning and Risk Management Introduction

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people who present with behaviours that challenge and risk-taking behaviours. Either in care, education or other settings such as sports clubs and community groups. The course covers explores the standards, (Children’s Homes Regulations including the quality standards) and key topics such as identifying practitioners obligations, the impacts of being a Child Looked After (CLA), provides context about referral paperwork, identifies risks and promotes understanding of controls to reduce risks and helps learners to gain the knowledge in order to work collaboratively with colleagues and other professionals. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Explore the Standards
• Identify our obligations
• Investigate the Impacts of being a CLA
• Examine referral paperwork requirements
• Identify and control risks
• Gain knowledge to work collaboratively