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This 2 day course for Foster Carers, adoptive parents, family carers and residential carers aims to explore creative and practical ways to communicate with children and adolescents who may have experienced abuse, neglect exposure to violence, separation and loss, or some other trauma experience. This training will consider some of the challenges and difficulties to communicating with these children and the advantages of using alternative communication techniques such as play, use of puppets, drama, drawings, worksheets therapeutic stories, role-play , books etc. It will also explore ways they can help enhance communication with children via the use of reflective listening skills and ways to help children learn via the use of non-directive techniques

Who is this course for?

All councillors need to attend this training every 3 years

Who is running this course?

This course will be facilitated internally by the Head of Looked After Children Services and supported by foster carers.

Aim

To give participants an overall understanding of how the Mental Capacity Act 2005 applies to issues of sexual
activity. For example, when a service user who has a learning disability, or dementia, wants to have a sexual
relationship. Or perhaps when one half of a couple wants to continue a sexual relationship even though his/her
partner may no longer have the mental capacity to consent to (or engage in) that relationship.

Target Group

Anyone working in a health and/or social care setting. All participants should already have a basic understanding
of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.