Philosophy

All of Bridget's workshops provide essential learning and development opportunities for staff and carers in the voluntary and statutory sectors. Bridget offers expertise in the varied and complex issues covered in these workshops. All courses reflect understanding gained from current research messages and practice developments. Course content encompasses latest legislation.

Bridget is committed to operating within an equal opportunities framework, and aims to work in a child-focused, anti-discriminatory and anti-racist context, integrating issues of race, language, disability, gender and sexual orientation.

These workshops are based on a participative approach to training, which recognises that individuals learn best when they are actively involved in the process. It gives opportunity for them to examine, question, share and suggest. It is active and involving. This approach also values and respects the distinct contribution which participants bring in terms of knowledge, skills and experience.

These individual workshops have been designed with reference to several units contained in NVQ’s Early Years Care and Education, Level 3 and Heath and Social Care, Caring for Children and Young People, Level 3. The agreed National Standards, which provide the structure for these qualifications, are indicators of best practice and quality services. Bridget’s courses also identify links with the relevant outcomes from Every Child Matters.

Many of the courses offered links to the CWDC (Children’s Workforce Development Council) Support and Development Standards for Foster Care. These standards set out the training that foster care applicants must receive before they are approved as foster carers and the training that approved carers should receive once they have been approved. These Standards are designed to support foster carers by providing employers with a framework to develop training and professional development plans for foster carers.

Workshops can be adapted to suit the needs and circumstances of individual agencies.