| Service-development
work at your venue Peter Limbrick
is available to come to your venue for work that is tailored to
your service-development needs. This can include:
- Consultancy to support service development
- Chairing, facilitating and/or presenting
at your conference or meetings
- Meeting parents, listening to their views
and reporting to service providers
This outreach work is to support statutory and
voluntary organisations in the UK or Ireland and is likely to
be one of the following –
- A one-day or part-day session
- A number of consecutive days
- A series of sessions over a period of time
Costs. Consultancy work and
helping at conferences is charged at £500 per day plus expenses.
Part-days are charged at £300. Fees for extended projects
can be negotiated.
1) Seminar:
Just Empty Words? Or Real Support - in pre-school and
early years provision for children with disabilities / special
needs
- When 'complex' comes in through the door,
does 'child-centred' go out through the window?
- Does every practitioner have to cater for
the whole family?
- Whose needs do we have to address first
in a new family, parent or child's?
- Are there any limits to how 'flexible' a
service has to be?
Facilitated by Peter Limbrick, this Seminar
is an opportunity for discussion and sharing good practice. There
will be short presentations and reflective discussion in small
groups to explore the elements and implications of the aspiration
to be family-centred, child-centred, needs-led and flexible. Delegates
will receive discussion papers that they can use in service-development
discussions after the day.
The Seminar will cater for multi-disciplinary
practitioners and managers in statutory, voluntary and private
services in UK and Ireland. Parents are very welcome and will
add depth to the discussions.
Discussion
Topics |
Being
‘family-centred’
Are we ready to offer families support that is genuinely family-centred?
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Discussion points
to include:
- What responsibilities for family-centredness are carried
by:
- the practitioner?
- the individual service?
- the multi-agency integrated service?
- What sort of provision comes under the heading of ‘family-centred’?
- What sort of tasks come under the heading of ‘family-centred’?
- Are there any limits to family-centred provision?
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Being
‘child-centred'
Does an increase in ‘complexity’ of
needs in the children we are supporting have
to mean a decrease in our child-centredness?
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Discussion points
to include:
With children who need multiple interventions
in mind:
- Do we sometimes offer too many practitioners?
- Can separate discipline-specific programmes be counterproductive?
- What does trans-disciplinary teamwork have to offer?
- Can we reduce practitioner overload if we become more
child-centred for these children?
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Being
‘needs-led’
New families have very particular
needs. What are the implications of
giving them genuinely needs-led support?
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Discussion points
to include:
- Can new parents know what they need?
- Whose responsibility is it to listen to parents speaking
about needs?
- How do we decide which needs to address first?
- What can we do to reduce the impact of waiting lists
on new families?
- Who needs to be involved in a genuinely collective
response to a family’s needs?
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Being ‘flexible’
This is an essential requirement in
service provision. But just how flexible
can you be?
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Discussion
points to include:
The opportunities for, and the limits
to, flexibility in:
- the practitioner
- the individual service
- the multi-agency integrated service
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Availability: UK and Ireland
Costs: The Seminar can be one-day or two-days.
The prices are exclusive of expenses.
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Up
to 20 people |
21
to 40
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41
to 60 |
One-day: |
£500 |
£700 |
£900 |
Two-days: |
£800 |
£1000
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£1200 |
2) An Away Day for your
Team
Peter can facilitate an Away Day on your theme
for local practitioners and managers. Away Day themes have included:
- A Tonic for Tired Teams: Sharing frustrations
and celebrating successes.
- Looking Back and Looking Forward: To review
present work and explore ways forward.
- New Partners – New Work: Embarking
on new joined-up working with people from other agencies or
services.
- Creating a Multi-agency Pathway for children
who require multiple interventions.
- Continuing good pre-school practice over
the transition into education settings – an Away Day for
local practitioners and managers from both sides of the transition.
- Parents and Practitioners Together: To share
experiences, feelings, frustrations, joys and ideas.
- Listening to Parents: A session to gather
constructive feedback about frustrations and satisfactions and
explore ways forward (practitioners not invited).
- Two-day Away Day – Listening to Parents
& Exploring Ways Forward. (Day One is just for parents.
Day Two is for practitioners and managers (and perhaps 2 or
3 representative parents from Day One).
- Team Around the Child (TAC): TAC philosophy
and practice - and how to get the ball rolling in your pre-school
services.
- TAC-Extra: Enhanced integration within the
TAC approach for the most vulnerable babies, children and families.
Away Days for professionals are charged at £300
per day plus £10 per delegate with no charge for expenses*.
Away Days for your parents and carers. The statutory agency organising
the event is charged £350 with no extra costs.
(Away Days usually cater for between 15 and 60 or so delegates.)
Please contact peter.limbrick@icwhatsnew.com
for more information.
Costs can be negotiated when budgets are limited.
Invoices can be arranged to fit in with local single-agency or
multi-agency budget arrangements.
* We reserve the right to negotiate expenses for atypical journeys.
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