‘Developing Research for the Children’s Residential Care Sector’
Where: The Mulberry Bush School, Linden House Annexe. Click here for map link
When: Tuesday 31st January 2017
Time: 10.00 – 15.00 (registration from 09.30)
Cost: £45.00 including lunch
For: Residential practitioners, providers, researchers and academics
This event is CPD accredited.
The day will offer talks and workshops on setting up a research project in your children’s home and reflective groups to discuss creating a culture of practitioner-led research in your provision, overcoming barriers, sharing assessment tools etc.
AGENDA
| Time | Session | |
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction | Dez Holmes, Dr Yvon Guest and John Diamond |
| 10:10 | Why do we need research for the Children’s Residential Sector? | Dez Holmes |
| 10:30 | ‘Our journey’ – the Mulberry Bush experience of supporting practitioner led research | Caryn Onions (Mulberry Bush) |
| 11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:20 | How might we get people involved, overcome barriers, measure outcomes? | Reflective group discussion |
| 12:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:15 | Young people’s voices as a source of evidence: how the residential sector might lead this agenda | Dez Holmes |
| 13:45 | How might we develop research in our children’s home? | Reflective group discussion |
| 14:30 | BREAK | |
| 14:40 | What have we learnt, where do we go from here? | |
| 15:00 | CLOSE |