This course is aimed at staff working directly with children and families and particularly useful for social workers, teachers, police, health staff and family support services based in Edinburgh. It will focus on the complexities of working with the issues of neglect and in particular:
- Consideration of the challenges of working with neglect and how these may be overcome
- Opportunity to consider emotional neglect and helping parents to recognise and understand this
- A more in-depth look at how child development is a dynamic process shaped by historical and current interactions between child, family and environment
- Opportunity to consider how to evidence and present concerns within different child protection systems
Date: Wed 20 & 27 Apr 2022
Time: 9am – 1pm
Where: Online
