Lovin' Care - creating the conditions where love can safely flourish in CHs

The ‘early plans’ of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s identified ‘love’ as ‘perhaps the most important foundation’ of a good childhood (IRCSC, March 2021).

An explicit recognition of the importance of love in residential children’s care isn’t new. The opening principle of the statutory guidance to the 2015 Regulations affirms that ‘Children in residential child care should be loved, happy, healthy, safe from harm and able to develop, thrive and fulfil their potential’ (DfE, 2015, p. 6). And the goal of the Scottish Independent Care Review was to ‘put love at the heart of the care system’.

However, there are many understandable barriers to allowing and enabling our workforce to form mutually loving relationships with the children they care for.

This workshop is designed to support sector leaders to explore the benefits of, the barriers and the means to, create environments in their homes where love between staff and children can safely flourish. We want to support you to feel confident in giving your staff permission to love and be loved by the children they care for.

We will explore:

• What are our fears around this and how can we pay appropriate attention to them?

• Do we understand what the transformative power of love could achieve for children in care?

• How can we create a culture where love can flourish?

• How can we support our (abused) children to feel safely loved in care?

• What do we need to do to support staff’s capacity to love?

• How would we design systems and processes that are value based and emotionally informed?

• How the Children’s Homes Regulations, Quality Standards and the SCCIF can be used to support and evidence Lovin' Care.

Our recent sold out training resulted in all evaluations rating it as ‘outstanding’ and homes committing to embed this into their practice.

"I would like for the rest of the adults within our teams to be able to attend the Lovin' Care training as I feel this would benefit them greatly".

"The training received and the knowledge of the trainers was outstanding. The framework discussed is something that my company and my home will adopt and use to inform our vision and practice. It is refreshing to work in now such a progressive way as it is something we could never have thought possible when I first began working in this environment ".

Cost: £60 + VAT

If the course is already full, don't worry! we're a friendly bunch, and we'd love to work some magic to accommodate you. Just reach out to us: [email protected] and we'll do our best to find a spot for you or get you on our waiting list. Your enthusiam is much appreciated, and we're here to help make it happen!

Host or Publisher Children's Homes Quality