Parenting Assessments

Overview

This practical course equips practitioners with a structured approach to completing effective parenting assessments. It explores assessment planning, engaging parents, and managing challenges such as disguised compliance. Participants will learn how to organise and triangulate evidence using the assessment framework, identify patterns, and analyse risk of future harm. The course supports practitioners to develop clear, evidence-based recommendations and actions that safeguard children and meet identified needs.

Who is Parenting Assessments aimed at?

Children's Social Workers and staff who may undertake parenting assessments

Course Length

1 day

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course, participants will:-

• Understand the purpose and goals of a parenting assessment.
• Explore the methodology for parenting assessments and the role of involving parents in a clear assessment plan.
• Consider the challenges of working with parents, including disguised and non-compliance and how this impacts on the assessment.
• Breaking down the evidence into the domains of the assessment framework triangle, and considering how it can be triangulated
• Identifying patterns within the evidence.
• Analysing the risk of future harm to the child and the changes that are required to protect them.
• Generating actions which meet the identified needs