Kate Mayes Children’s Services Social Worker Dominic King E-learning Project Manager, SCIE Workshop C: The SCIE Parental Mental Health & Child Welfare.

Kate MayesChildren’s Services Social Worker

Dominic KingE-learning Project Manager, SCIE

Workshop C:The SCIE Parental Mental Health & Child Welfare Training Resources

The SCIE Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Training Resources

Kate Mayes – Children’s Services Social Worker

Dominic King – SCIE e-learning project manager

In this workshop we will:-

Summarise the key messages about staff development and training from SCIE’s reviews and practice surveys

Demonstrate some of SCIE’s e-learning materials Give an overview of how Crossing Bridges will be updated

and adapted to incorporate SCIE’s guidance, and produced as e-learning materials

Give participants an opportunity to share their own experience and knowledge of what works.

Key Messages from SCIE’s Reviews and Practice Surveys 1

Training identified as a key concern for both adult and children’s services staff

A substantial unmet need was identified, particularly for joint training

Key Messages from SCIE’s Reviews and Practice Surveys 2

The knowledge needed for practitioners and

their managers to provide effective services

included: The inter-related nature of mental health

difficulties, parenting and child development A family model All parts of the professional network

Key Messages from SCIE’s Reviews and Practice Surveys 3

Practice would be supported by:

Strong working relationships across divisions, particularly at senior management level

A culture of respect for staff in different disciplines

Key Messages from SCIE’s Reviews and Practice Surveys 4

What qualifying and post-qualifying training would help? Multi-agency events promoting collaborative

working and demystifying the work of staff in other disciplines

Single agency events to develop practitioners knowledge base and confidence

Training on a family model (pre and post-qualifying)

Key Messages from SCIE’s Reviews and Practice Surveys 5

Safeguarding training as a core component for all basic professional training

Child development and child welfare

Cultural differences and sensitivities

Key Messages from SCIE’s Reviews and Practice Surveys 6

Communication skills

Talking to children for adult services staff

Communicating with and supporting parents with personality disorder

SCIE’s forthcoming electronic resources on Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare

SCIE’s e-learning resources

SCIE’s upcoming e-learning resources

e-Learning examples

e-Learning resources on Parental Mental Health and

Child Welfare

Overview

SCIE’s available e-Learning resources

www.scie.org.uk

1. Law and Social Work 2. An Introduction to the Mental Health of Older People

3. Poverty, Parenting and Social exclusion

6. Communication Skills

4. Children of Prisoners5. An Introduction to Residential Child Care

www.scie.org.uk

SCIE’s e-Learning resources in development

Restraint

Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare

Interprofessional and Inter-agency Collaboration

The Open Dementia Programme

Aug 09

Personalisation

Knowledge Management

June 09 Jan 10

April 10

Mental Capacity Act

Sep 09

May 10

Sexuality, Reproductive Health

and Abuse

May 10 2010

e-Learning resources: a few examples

http://scie.stage.cimex.com/dementia/object3/index.html

Social Care TV – a free social care video on demand service (November 2009)

Topics include:

Dementia

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

Safeguarding Vulnerable Children

Personalisation

Children of Prisoners

Seldom Heard Groups

Mental Capacity Act

Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare

Restraint

Nutrition

Principles of Participation

Approx. 30 short films for launch with another 30 following in the new year:

• 9 e-learning resources

• Each around 30 minutes study time

• Fully interactive using multimedia technology

• Quizzes, activities, audit tools, interactive case studies, video, audio

E-Learning: Parental Mental health and Child Welfare - an overview

• 9 e-learning resources

• Broken up into three sections

• Each section has a different target audience

• Each section can be used as training the trainers resources and notes for trainers will be included

E-Learning: Parental Mental health and Child Welfare - an overview

E-Learning: Parental Mental health and Child Welfare - an overview

Trainer 

1 & 2 Foundation Module

3 Screening 4 Assessment 5 Planning

6 Putting the Plan into place 7 Reviewing Plans 8 Frontline management

9 StrategicManagement & commissioning

Underpinning knowledge

Section 1: Foundation pathway (2 modules)

Covering

• Think child, think parent and think family – the knowledge base

• The Family Model – introduces a useful conceptual framework to help managers and staff in all agencies to consider the family as a whole

E-Learning: Module titles

Section 1: Foundation pathway (2 modules)

E-Learning: Module titles

Target Audience

Mental health managers and staff Children’s services staff including residential and foster carers Primary care services (GPs, Health Visitors, Midwives) Schools – Teachers and support staff Children’s Centre staff

Section 2: Skills pathway (6 modules)

• Screening

• Assessment

• Planning

• Putting the plan into place

• Reviewing plans

• Frontline management

E-Learning: Module titles

Section 2: Skills pathway (6 modules)

Target audience

Adult and child mental health staff in secondary, tertiary services and their managers

Children’s services staff and their managers Primary care services staff (GPs, Health Visitors, Midwives) Schools – Teachers and support staff Children’s Centre staff

E-Learning: Module titles

Section 3: Systems/organisational pathway (1 module)

• Strategic management and commissioning in adult’s and children’s services

E-Learning: Module titles

Section 3: Systems/organisational pathway (1 module)

Target audience

include primary care and third sector, safeguarding boards, front line managers, middle managers,

leaders who have the authority to initiate & delegate negotiations across agencies, service level agreements and protocols

Commissioning and planning managers

E-Learning: Module titles

Dominic King – [email protected]

Questions?