Useful Resources

Make sure you fully understand the legal and regulatory framework and further your journey to excellence.

This toolkit sets out skills and qualities that practitioners need if they are to help young people to manage risk in their lives.

Gain a better understanding of the policies which support care leavers to ensure you are supporting young people with their transition.

Occupational Therapists are often asked that question to rule out sensory sensitivities or sensory integration challenges as an underlying cause for a behaviour that can’t be explained.

The guidance Ofsted inspectors will use to evaluate how providers, managers and carers create a positive environment where children can live and learn and where staff interact positively with children.

Guidance for providers on registering a children’s home with Ofsted when the care and accommodation is provided in more than one building

Created by BASW England the “top-tips” guide identifies how to record in a way which is reflective and children and families focussed. The guide also outlines how social workers can be more succinct in their recording.

Reports on children's experiences of moving when in care. Considers online survey results from children, young people and professionals in England and Wales in 2021. Finds that: 80 per cent of children and young people said their belongings were moved in binbags during their time in care; and that only 1 in 3 local authorities have formal written guidance to help children and young people move successfully.