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Top Tips for Practitioners June 2024

Top Tips Poster for Teams

Top Tips Poster

Ambassador guide - What to expect from my worker

Tree of Expectations

How to listen so children will talk...

Supporting life story work Research in Practice video what it is and why it matters Baynes, P.(2020)

 
Why we need to understand our feelings June 2024

Hands Game

Introducing feelings

Pictures to represent feelings

Jenga with questions

Charades

Feelings Chart

Making Faces

Funny faces


 
Emotional Literacy - All About Me - Rose (2012) June 2024

Drawing of the child

Things that make me happy and sad

School, likes & dislikes

Mum

Dad

Homes where I have lived

Where I live now

 
Introducing the wallpaper  
   
Adoption June 2024

Think, Feel, Do bear

Adoption Social Worker Toolbox

Painting Pebbles

Feelings in Colour

Now and Then 

Say it your own way - Adoption 

 
Alcohol June 2024

myth busting for teens

Alcohol Social Worker Toolbox

Bag of Drugs

Feelings and Emotions Jar

Feelings and Emotions Jar instructions

All sort of things we think about

 
Anger  

Anger map

Flipping your lid sustainable parenting

Bottled up feelings
Coping post-it’s
Coping Strategies
Cream
Emotions and how to identify them
Fact or Opinion
Feelings jar with glitter
Feelings and emotions jar

Feelings in colour
Icebergs
Jenga with questions

 
 BRAIN  

Flipping Your Lid - Unsustainable Parenting

Coping Post It's

Coping Strategies

Head Heart & Hands Tool

 
 BUILDING SELF ESTEEM  
Hands Game
How does anxiety feel in our body?
Iceberg
Jenga with questions
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Say it Your Own Way Pack
Story dice 
 
 CHANGE OF SCHOOL    
Hand’s game
How anxiety feels in our body
Jenga with questions
Transitions – now and then
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Say it Your Own Way Pack
 
 CHANGE OF SOCIAL WORKER  
   
CRIMINAL AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION  
Social Worker Toolbox  
 COMING INTO FOSTER CARE  

Ambassadors Guide - What to expect from my worker

Parenting Role- Who's job is it to?

Who's job is it to Instructions

 
FAMILY TIME  
Jenga with Question
Window on the world
Worksheets - this is me, my family
 
CULTURE  

Cultural-genogram-hardy-laszloffy-1995

Story boards

 
DEATH OF A PARENT OR LOVED ONE  

Feelings or emotions Jars

Feelings or emotions Jars instructions
Coping post-it’s
Hand’s game
Jenga with questions
Box of unanswered questions
Making faces
Helping hand
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Story boards

 

SUPPORTING SIBLINGS WITH DIFFERENT PLANS

 

Say it your own way pack

 

DOMESTIC ABUSE

 

Parent problem checklist To help identify and work with Domestic abuse and parental conflict

Couple relationships common issues list To help identify and work with Domestic abuse and parental conflict

Barnardo's risk assessment tool

Booklet for children on DV

Domestic abuse workbook for offenders

Fact sheet of impact on children for parents

Healthy relationship workbook learning difficulties 

Impact of domestic violence on children and young people

Teens guide to DV with safety plan

Safety planning workbook in relation to parental substance misuse, mental health or domestic abuse.
Domestic abuse workbook which is built on by each social worker.

 
   
DRUGS  

The parents wall (skills needed to be a parent) 

Healthy and unhealthy coping strategies

AAD-001 Bag of drugs

AAD-002 A - z of drugs

AAD-003 booklet parents with drug misuse who have teens

AAD-005 teenage drug guide

 Drugs Social Worker Toolbox

 
 EXPLORING WHY I CAME INTO CARE  

The parents wall (skills needed to be a parent)

Parenting Roles - Who's Job is it to?

Parenting Roles - Who's Job is it to Instructions

Story Boards

A Young Persons Guide to Care Proceedings

 
FAMILY TREE  

Cultural Genograms

Family Tree/Genograms

Worksheets - This is me, my family

 
FATHER'S IDENTITY  
Parents are people too  
IDENTITY  

Star of Strength

Identity - relationships

Statement cards e.g. I am...

 
KEEP SAFE WORK  

My Body is Mine’ (Keep Safe)

NSPCC - Talk Pants


 

LIFE STORY WORK FOR BABIES

 

Completed for the child, including photos, hand prints and footprints

Story boards/book

Drawing the child

Things I Like

Don’t Like

School, likes and dislikes 

Mum

Dad

Where I’ve Lived 

Where I live now 

 
LIFE STORY WORK WITH TODDLERS & UNDER 3'S  

Story boards

Drawing the child

Things I Like

Don’t Like

School, likes and dislikes 

Mum

Dad

Where I’ve Lived 

Where I live now 

 

MENTAL HEALTH

 

Safety planning workbook in relation to parental substance misuse, mental health or domestic abuse.
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Story boards
All sorts of things we think about
Anger map
Bottled up feelings
Coping strategies
Emotions and how to identify them
Feelings jar with glitter
Feelings and emotions jar

Feelings and emotions jar Instructions

Feelings in colour
Hands game
Jenga and questions
Painting pebbles
Think feel do bear

 
 MOTHERS IDENTITY  

Parent's are people too

All about me - Mum

 
MY JOURNEY  

My Journey - How to Guide

My journey - Fairies

My journey - Farm Animals

My journey - Football

My journey - Pirates

My journey - YouTube

My Journey

My Journey Space

My Journey Jelly Beans

My Journey Harry Potter

My Journey Minions

My Journey Paw Patrol

My Journey My Little Pony

Resource Toolbox

My Journey - How to Guide (Secondary)

 
 NEGLECT  

Flash cards around the Neglect Toolkit. 

Neglect toolkit - child friendly 

Quality of care profile - child neglect - guidance for practitioners 2022/2023

 

PLACEMENT BREAKDOWN

 

Parenting role - Who's job is it to

Parenting role - Who's job is it to Instructions

 

SEXUAL ABUSE

 

My body is mine (Keep Safe)

NSPCC Pants Rule

NSPCC - Keeping Children Safe

Spotting the signs if foldout - What is sexual exploitation 

Spotting the signs of CSE

 
SEXUAL HEALTH  

Underwear rules  resources - Lesson Plan

My body is mine (Keep Safe)

Brook Abortion handout 2021

Brook Condom handout 2021

Brook Consent handout

Brook Contraception handout

Brook Period handout

Brook Porn handout

Brook Puberty handout 

Guide for Families Brook Members and Carers

Guide to Manage a Disclosures of Sexual Harassment or Assault 

Period Tacker

Sexual Health Glossary - Supporting people who speak English as a second language

So what is a Vulva anyway

Spotting the sign foldout - what is child sexual exploitation 

Spotting the signs of CSE Proforma 

Vagina matters 

 
 SUBSTANCE MISUSE  
The parents wall (skills needed to be a parent)
Healthy and unhealthy coping strategies
Bag of drugs
Safety planning workbook in relation to parental substance misuse, mental health or domestic abuse.
 
TRANSITIONS  

Feelings or emotions Jars

Feelings or emotions Jars instructions
Coping post-it’s

Painting Pebbles

Self esteem and sensory hands

Head Heart and Hand Tool
Hand’s game

Jenga with questions
Helping hand

Now & Then

Timetable

 
TRIGGERS  
Zone of Regulation   
WHAT CHILDREN NEED  

Parenting role - Who's job is it to

Parenting role - Who's job is it to - Instructions

 

WORRIES

 

Worry Drawings

Head, Heart and Hands Tool.

Unworry Pack - Usborne (2021)

 

 

 

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8 Top Tips for professionals when working with children & young people  

Top Tips Poster for Teams

Top Tips Poster

Ambassador guide - What to expect from my worker

Tree of Expectations

How to listen so children will talk...

Supporting life story work Research in Practice video what it is and why it matters Baynes, P.(2020)

 
   
Mind of My Own  
Embedding Mind of My Own in local authorities   
Express case study  
Practitioner resource pack  
Practitioner Space Guide  
   
SESSION 1 - Introducing the wallpaper to a child  
Introducing the wallpaper  
   
Emotional Literacy - Feelings & Emotions - Rose (2012)

Helping children and young people to understand their feelings, story and experiences.

Follow their lead whilst ensuring that the thread of feelings running throughout all the work you do.

Why we need to understand our feelings  

Hands Game

Introducing feelings

Pictures to represent feelings

Jenga with questions

Charades

Feelings Chart

Making Faces

Funny faces

 
   
Emotional Literacy - All About Me - Rose (2012) Helping the worker to understand the child or young person's current thinking.

Drawing of the child

Things that make me happy and sad

School, likes & dislikes

Mum

Dad

Homes where I have lived

Where I live now

 
   
ABUSE    

Types of Abuse & How to Prevent Them | NSPCC

Hands Game

Cream

Feelings and emotions jar

Icebergs

Pictures to represent feelings 1

Pictures to represent feelings 2

What skills are needed to be a parent

Bottled up feelings

NSPCC - Talk Pants

When you, I feel, Can we

Neglect Toolkit

Feelings & emotions Jar instructions

Say it your own way pack

 
   
ADOPTION    

Think, Feel, Do bear

Adoption Social Worker Toolbox

Painting Pebbles

Feelings in Colour

Now and Then 

Say it your own way - Adoption 

A

lso look at:- feelings, 'all about me’ and transition activities.

 
ALCOHOL   
myth busting for teens  
Alcohol Social Worker Toolbox  

Bag of Drugs

Feelings and Emotions Jar

Feelings and Emotions Jar instructions

All sort of things we think about

 
   
ANGER    

Anger map

Flipping your lid sustainable parenting

Bottled up feelings
Coping post-it’s
Coping Strategies
Cream
Emotions and how to identify them
Fact or Opinion
Feelings jar with glitter
Feelings and emotions jar

Feelings in colour
Icebergs
Jenga with questions

 
   
ANXIETY    

Feelings and Emotions Jar
Parenting role Who's Job is it to?

Parenting role - Who's job is it to - Instructions

Head, Heart and Hands Tool.

 
   
ATTACHMENT    
The parent wall - skills are needed to be a parent
The Childs wall - children need to grow and develop
 
   
BIRTH    
   
THE BRAIN  

Flipping Your Lid - Unsustainable Parenting

Coping Post It's

Coping Strategies

Head Heart & Hands Tool

 
   
BUILDING SELF ESTEEM   
Hands Game
How does anxiety feel in our body?
Iceberg
Jenga with questions
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Say it Your Own Way Pack
Story dice 
 
   
CHANGE OF SCHOOL    
Hand’s game
How anxiety feels in our body
Jenga with questions
Transitions – now and then
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Say it Your Own Way Pack
 
   
CHANGE OF SOCIAL WORKER    

How anxiety feels in our body
Parenting role Who's Job is it to?

Parenting role Who's Job is it to - Instructions
Ambassadors guide - What to Expect from My Worker
Head, Heart and Hands Tool..?

The expectations contract

 
   
CHILD CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION  
Social Worker Toolbox  
   
CHILD SEXUAL EXPLIOTATION  

Social Worker Toolbox

NSPCC Pants Rules

 
   
COMING INTO FOSTER CARE  

Ambassadors Guide - What to expect from my worker

Parenting Role- Who's job is it to?

Who's job is it to Instructions

 
   
CONTACT  /FAMILY TIME  
Jenga with Question
Window on the world
Worksheets - this is me, my family
 
CONTACT  /FAMILY TIME  STARTING  
Worksheets - This is me, my family  
CONTACT  /FAMILY TIME ENDING  
Worksheets - This is me, my family  
   
COUNTY LINES    
Spotting the signs of foldout - What is child sexual exploitation   
   
CULTURE   

Cultural-genogram-hardy-laszloffy-1995

Story boards

 
   
DEATH OF A PARENT OR LOVED ONE  

Feelings or emotions Jars

Feelings or emotions Jars instructions
Coping post-it’s
Hand’s game
Jenga with questions
Box of unanswered questions
Making faces
Helping hand
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Story boards

 
   
DIFFERENT PLANS FOR SIBLINGS  
Say it your own way pack  
DIFFENT SIBLING STORIES  
Say it your own way pack  
   
DISABILITY    
   
DOMESTIC ABUSE   

Parent problem checklist To help identify and work with Domestic abuse and parental conflict

Couple relationships common issues list To help identify and work with Domestic abuse and parental conflict

Barnardo's risk assessment tool

Booklet for children on DV

Domestic abuse workbook for offenders

Fact sheet of impact on children for parents

Healthy relationship workbook learning difficulties 

Impact of domestic violence on children and young people

Teens guide to DV with safety plan

Safety planning workbook in relation to parental substance misuse, mental health or domestic abuse.
Domestic abuse workbook which is built on by each social worker.

 
   
DRUGS  

The parents wall (skills needed to be a parent) 

Healthy and unhealthy coping strategies

AAD-001 Bag of drugs

AAD-002 A - z of drugs

AAD-003 booklet parents with drug misuse who have teens

AAD-005 teenage drug guide

 Drugs Social Worker Toolbox

 
   
ECOMAPS   
   
ENDINGS  
   
EXPLORING WHY I CAME INTO CARE   

The parents wall (skills needed to be a parent)

Parenting Roles - Who's Job is it to?

Parenting Roles - Who's Job is it to Instructions

Story Boards

A Young Persons Guide to Care Proceedings

 
   
FAMILY TREE  

Cultural Genograms

Family Tree/Genograms

Worksheets - This is me, my family

 
   
FATHER'S IDENTITY  
Parents are people too  
   
GAMES   
Dobble
Uno
Tic Tac Toe
Squiggles
Box game
snakes and ladders
pie face
Story dice
 
   
HOMELESSNESS    
   
IDENTITY    

Star of Strength

Identity - relationships

Statement cards e.g. I am...

 
   
KEEP SAFE  

My Body is Mine’ (Keep Safe)

NSPCC - Talk Pants

 
   
LIFE STORY WITH BABIES  

Completed for the child, including photos, hand prints and footprints

Story boards/book

Drawing the child

Things I Like

Don’t Like

School, likes and dislikes 

Mum

Dad

Where I’ve Lived 

Where I live now 

 
LIFE STORY WORK WITH TODDLERS & UNDER 3'S  

Story boards

Drawing the child

Things I Like

Don’t Like

School, likes and dislikes 

Mum

Dad

Where I’ve Lived 

Where I live now 

 
   
MENTAL HEALTH (MEN)  

Safety planning workbook in relation to parental substance misuse, mental health or domestic abuse.
Head, Heart and Hands Tool.
Story boards
All sorts of things we think about
Anger map
Bottled up feelings
Coping strategies
Emotions and how to identify them
Feelings jar with glitter
Feelings and emotions jar

Feelings and emotions jar Instructions

Feelings in colour
Hands game
Jenga and questions
Painting pebbles
Think feel do bear

 
   
MISSING FROM CARE  

Ambassadors guide - What to Expect from My Worker
Say it Your Own Way Pack

Flipping your lid Sustainable parenting

 
   
MOTHER'S IDENTITY  

Parent's are people too

All about me - Mum

 
   
MOVING FOSTER PLACEMENT  

Ambassadors guide - What to expect from my worker

Head, Heart and Hands Tool.

 
   
MY JOURNEY    

My Journey - How to Guide

My journey - Fairies

My journey - Farm Animals

My journey - Football

My journey - Pirates

My journey - YouTube

My Journey

My Journey Space

My Journey Jelly Beans

My Journey Harry Potter

My Journey Minions

My Journey Paw Patrol

My Journey My Little Pony

Resource Toolbox

My Journey - How to Guide (Secondary)

 
   
NEGLECT (NEG)  

Flash cards around the Neglect Toolkit. 

 
Neglect toolkit - child friendly   
Quality of care profile - child neglect - guidance for practitioners 2022/2023  
   
ONLINE SAFETY & OR GROOMING  
   
PARENT IN PRISON  

Say it you own way pack

 

 

   
PARENTS RELATIONSHIPS  
Say it you own way pack  
   
PHYSICAL ABUSE  
Say it you own way pack  
   
PLACEMENT BREAKDOWN  

Parenting role - Who's job is it to

Parenting role - Who's job is it to Instructions

 
   
PREGNANCY   
   
RESPITE/SHORT BREAKS  
Say it Your Own Way Pack 
Story boards
 
   
SELF HARMING  
   
SEXUAL ABUSE  

My body is mine (Keep Safe)

NSPCC Pants Rule

NSPCC - Keeping Children Safe

Spotting the signs if foldout - What is sexual exploitation 

Spotting the signs of CSE

 

 
   
   
SEXUAL HEALTH  

Underwear rules  resources - Lesson Plan

My body is mine (Keep Safe)

Brook Abortion handout 2021

Brook Condom handout 2021

Brook Consent handout

Brook Contraception handout

Brook Period handout

Brook Porn handout

Brook Puberty handout 

Guide for Families Brook Members and Carers

Guide to Manage a Disclosures of Sexual Harassment or Assault 

Period Tacker

Sexual Health Glossary - Supporting people who speak English as a second language

So what is a Vulva anyway

Spotting the sign foldout - what is child sexual exploitation 

Spotting the signs of CSE Proforma 

Vagina matters

 

 

 
Brook Abortion handout  
SIBLINGS  
   

SIBLINGS - Understand why they don't live with their siblings

 
Story Boards  
SOCIAL WORKERS TOOLBOX  

Free social work tools and resources for direct work with children

Social Workers Toolbox

 
   
SUBSTANCE MISUSE  
The parents wall (skills needed to be a parent)
Healthy and unhealthy coping strategies
Bag of drugs
Safety planning workbook in relation to parental substance misuse, mental health or domestic abuse.
 
   
TEENAGERS (working with)  
Top Tips Poster Created by the ambassadors
   
TYPES OF ABUSE  

Types of child abuse & how to prevent them - NSPCC

Flash cards around the Neglect Toolkit.

 
   
TRANSGENDER  
 LGBT Partnership Terminology   
TRANSITIONS   

Feelings or emotions Jars

Feelings or emotions Jars instructions
Coping post-it’s

Painting Pebbles

Self esteem and sensory hands

Head Heart and Hand Tool
Hand’s game

Jenga with questions
Helping hand

Now & Then

Timetable

 
   
TRIGGERS  
Zone of Regulation   
   
UNDERSTANDING COURT AND OR THE JUDGE  

Cafcass - Resources for Professionals

Parenting role - Who's job is it to

Parenting role - Who's job is it to - Instructions

Flash cards around the Neglect Toolkit.

 
   
WHAT CHILDREN NEED  

Parenting role - Who's job is it to

Parenting role - Who's job is it to - Instructions

 
   
WHAT IS ABUSE  
   
WORRIES  

Worry Drawings

Head, Heart and Hands Tool.

Unworry Pack - Usborne (2021)

 

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
 

 

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