ANALYSIS OF CHILD NEED

This one-day introductory course is designed to teach the fundamentals of analysing and assessing child need in  the most commonly experienced situations. The course emphasises the child's emotional and behavioural history and experience as being the more likely to be problematic in CAF, Section 17 or Section 47 childcare work and where children are in care. The course is suitable for both qualified and unqualified childcare staff and including foster carers.

This course is also available as a more in depth two-day course entitled Analysis and Assessment.

Learning Objectives:

• Develop understanding of the nature of need and risk

• Develop understanding of the Assessment Framework child development domain
  and how child need is characterised

• Development understanding of child development and child maltreatment and
  need

• Develop understanding and skills in using Attachment Theory to recognise the
  impact on children of parenting that does not meet the test of “good enough”.

• Develop understanding of the Assessment Framework domains of parenting
  capacity and family and environment and mapping causative paths of need

• Develop knowledge and skills in assessing child need and identifying what needs
  to be done

• Develop knowledge and skills in intervening to meet need

• Develop skills in evaluating interventive progress

Click on the link to go to three "Social Work Information Pages" on the The Basics of the Analysis of Child Need and a fourth page on "Social History Format".

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