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Enhancing Foster Placement Success: Matching

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Trainer Consultant – Samantha Frith-Jones

This workshop is designed for fostering practitoners committed to improving outcomes through thoughtful, informed matching and placement planning.

Learning Objectives:

  • A deeper understanding of Placement Stability and Permanence – why it matters and how to achieve it
  • Best practices for creating high-quality referrals – using language that informs without bias
  • Insight into the matching process – balancing the needs of the child and existing household members
  • Tools for effective information sharing – fostering trust and transparency with foster carers
  • Strategies for developing support packages – supporting vulnerabilities and enhancing foster carer wellbeing
  • The role and value of Matching Reviews – responding to change and listening to lived experiences
  • Conducting Reflective Disruption Meetings – turning endings into opportunities for learning and improvement
  • An overview of Long-Term Matching – its purpose, process, and potential impact

Audience

Social workers, supervising social workers and professionals involved in placement decisions.

Fees

If you are purchasing multiple places on an emodule, or you are purchasing e-modules for someone else, you will need to be set up as a group leader.
Please email info@afkacymru.org.

Please contact info@afkacymru.org if you are unable to book above.

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