Mastering Authority and Compassion in Child Protection – Last Chance to Secure Your Webinar Seat!

The session will explore how social workers can effectively manage conflict. Conflict is an ever-present and unavoidable feature of child protection social work. Parents are often fearful, frightened, or angry about social work involvement and/or may be unwilling or resistant to change. This makes relationships tense and difficult.
Most agree that improving the lives of children and families depends on building and maintaining effective relationships. Yet, there is surprisingly little guidance on how to achieve this in such a difficult context. Social workers can be left feeling inadequate or ineffective when their attempts to support are thwarted.
In this focused masterclass, Rich Devine, drawing on his twelve years of front-line practice, will explore how conflict is unavoidable in child protection. He will share ideas and methods that facilitate the development of effective and meaningful relationships, so that you can feel confident in managing complex and challenging relationships and improve outcomes for children.