The organisational safeguarding team in Essex plays a crucial role in protecting adults at risk from harm or abuse through social care provision. Responsibilities are guided by the SET (Southend, Esse
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This session will explore the kinship landscape and will look at how kinship care acts as a prevention, early intervention and support pathway for children and families, providing stability and nurtur
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This panel discussion brings together practitioners, leaders, and advocates to explore how anti-racist approaches can be effectively integrated into both frontline work with children and families and
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This session is designed to help aspiring managers explore the deeper dimensions of leadership—beyond task execution and operational oversight. Participants will reflect on their personal leadership i
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This session will focus on working with adults with acquired brain injury or ABI, an umbrella term which encompasses a broad range of conditions that affect the brain. ABI is sudden onset and likely t
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Experience a powerful, moving and inspiring performance by dancers from Care to Dance, which provides a creative outlet for care-experienced young people.
The numbers of children and young people being deprived of their liberty has been growing in recent years. They include looked-after children whose care regime amounts to a deprivation of liberty and,
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A strong Local Kinship Offer ensures where children cannot live with their parents could grow up in a loving, supportive environment with people they know and trust. We will share with you: • Our lea
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This workshop will introduce the key concepts and model of collaborative experiential learning. While this model was developed for use in social work student supervision, it can be applied to any expe
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This session will consider how to support clients with hoarding issues where there is a question about their mental capacity. It will explore how an assessment of a client's mental capacity should be
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This session is designed to provide social workers with an understanding of the court structure, how to meet the burden and standards of proof required in court proceedings and how to provide the cour
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This session will bring to life the reality of domestic abuse and involvement with social services from the perspective of a domestic abuse survivor. It will cover the language to use and how importan
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This session will describe how the principal social worker (PSW) and principal occupational therapist (POT) are promoting movement and physical activity as a tool for social care professionals to supp
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Data shows around half of child sexual abuse happens in the family environment yet, despite the vital role social workers play in identifying and responding to children at risk of harm, practice remai
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Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is vital for making a real difference in the lives of everyone we come into contact with. Join Essex County Council's Social Care Academy for an interactive g
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This session will consider the 'streamlined' Court of Protection process for authorising adults' deprivations of liberty in the community using the COPDOL11 process, based upon the case of Re X (2014)
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This session will examine the ways in which capacity is understood and misunderstood in the presence of suicide risk and address the legal and ethical dilemmas that arise in consequence. Learning outc
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This session will present the findings and service improvement priorities from the second national analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs). It will highlight implications for practice and the ma
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In this workshop, we will be exploring the history and concept of the Multi-Disciplinary Team in Essex, give an insight into the bespoke offer delivered by our service and how we work collaboratively
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This session explores the journey from frontline practice to management for professionals, offering insights into the skills and mindset shifts needed to take that next step. We'll discuss the opportu
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This session will explore the role of OTs in assessing mental capacity and supporting people to make decisions and will feature a recap of mental capacity in everyday practice with case law updates. A
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Essex have been working with Curators of Change and ADASS East over the last two years to create ‘Over a Brew’ virtual sessions. The sessions provide an honest space for people who draw on care and su
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This session will outline the challenges faced by individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues, focusing on the barriers to providing effective support. It will introduce core
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England's chief social workers provide expert advice to the government on policy and practice. This session is a chance to hear direct from the chief social worker for children and families and the ch
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This session will explore the specific role of social workers in the charitable hospice sector. It will explore the development of this specialism over time and the role of social work in improving bo
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This session will explore research and practice around the use of co-occupations to create opportunities for people with dementia and their carers to work together in a way that promotes participation
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This session will explore how social workers can engage and manage risk effectively when supporting families experiencing child to parent violence and abuse. It aims to help professionals identify key
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This session will help professionals to understand the intersection between immigration and social care when assessing and meeting the needs of children living within families that have no recourse to
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Join this live, interactive demonstration to discover how Community Care Inform could become an invaluable learning tool for your social work career. In this session we will show you how Community Car
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Join this live, interactive demonstration to discover how Community Care Inform could become an invaluable learning tool for your social work career. In this session we will show you how Community Car
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This impactful training session focusing on county Lines, child criminal exploitation, grooming and coercive control is a chance to hear from a young man with lived experience. Attend this session to:
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The new Mental Health Act makes significant changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 and will have major implications for social work practitioners. The aims behind reforms are to strengthen the voice of
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This session will be an interactive workshop informed by psycho-social theory and the principles of relationship-based practice. It will provide social work managers with a reflective space to think a
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This session is about how to stay grounded, motivated, and human—even when the system feels rushed and overloaded. We’ll explore how to work with your brain (not against it), use your energy wisely, a
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An exploration of the latest research from Community Care, focused on the evolving landscape of social care recruitment, career development, and continuous learning. Drawing on annual surveys of thous
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An exploration of the latest research from Community Care, focused on the evolving landscape of social care recruitment, career development, and continuous learning. Drawing on annual surveys of thous
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Join Essex County Council's Social Care Academy for an interactive table discussion where we'll dive deep into why wellbeing is crucial in our profession. Discover what it means to you personally and
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This legal learning session will provide a guide to the law, good practice guidance and how to approach cases in the family courts where parents have learning disabilities. Learning outcomes: Become
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This session will provide an overview of executive functioning and how difficulties with this cognitive area might present day-to-day and within what populations. It will help professionals recognise
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This session will explore what autism and autistic experience is - and is not - and how that relates to social work and social care. We will focus on specific contexts where autistic adults may become
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While it can be emotionally challenging to fail a social work student, for the student, practice educator and team, it is significantly more difficult when the decision to pass or fail a student is le
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This session is about building workload strategies that actually work in the real world: where priorities shift constantly, interruptions are nonstop, and your best-laid plans go out the window by 9:1
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Every capacity assessment written by a social worker might, one day, be read by a Supreme Court judge. Even if a case does not go that far, coroners, judges of the Family Court and Court of Protection
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The event was exceptionally well-organised, with a clear structure that made it easy to follow. The sessions were insightful, offering valuable perspectives and practical knowledge that I can apply in my professional role.
The day was powerful, with a positive impact on my learning and practice.
It was just what I needed, a chance to network, reflect and learn with colleagues from across the profession
Great variety of learning available both in presentations, theatre and guided conversations all relevant to my own working experience.
My experience was incredibly positive and far exceeded my expectations. I found myself enjoying the event much more than I anticipated.”
A great chance to share the joy of social work with new and familiar colleagues
It opened my mind to the different career paths and also the diverse ways in using the strengths approach in Social Work
Very glad I have finally had the opportunity to attend such an insightful day.
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