Independence and Leaving Care Half Day Course

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 are in care, education and other settings. The course defines leaving care and provides insight into people’s lived experiences, past attitudes and practices to provide context. Facilitators provide opportunities to discuss legislation, responsabiltiies amd past practices. The training raises awareness of the issues faced by young people leaving care and describes Pathway planning and independence plans. Training highlights the key themes of Corporate Parenting and aims to engage learners to implement independence into their daily practices. 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

• Define leaving care and give a brief history of past practices and attitudes
• Discuss legislation, responsibilities and past practice
• Awareness of the factors that impact on the Leaving Care experiences of different groups of Children and Young People
• Describe Pathway Plans and give examples of Independence plans
• Highlight the importance of Corporate Parenting
• Engage learners in reflective practice with the view to implement this into their role