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What foster carers want you to know
Health, Sports & Psychology

What foster carers want you to know

...care at The Open University, spoke to five foster carers to gain their insights and reflections on their experiences. Transcript For foster carers, ensuring their voices are listened to, and that they are adequately supported, is essential not only for their own well-being but also for the quality and continuity of care provided to children. When foster carers advocate...
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Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...adults are already apprehensive about the amount of time kids spend online, with a lot of parents not wanting to encourage any further computer use. People can also be reluctant to try something that is perceived to be very new or untested. However, self-help utilizing modern technology for mental health problems is not a new thing, in the past mediums such as cassette...
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Death is inevitable: But do you need to plan for it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death is inevitable: But do you need to plan for it?

...care you’d like to receive to how your funeral may be. It does not mean planning to end your life, but rather understanding that dying and death are processes. And because they are processes, there is the possibility of influencing how those processes happen and are experienced. For some, it is easiest to think about it as a parallel to a birth plan or other major life...
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Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...on the premise that effective leadership will mean improved outcomes for children’s care, learning and development. We take the view that leadership is the concern of all practitioners and not the exclusive domain of one individual, the designated leader. Stacey (2009) notes that while good leadership is key to a team’s success successful leaders are dependent on the rest of the team. From this perspective, leadership can......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...care professionals on their registers’. Witnesses to misconduct can be called to give evidence in a Fitness to Practise investigation and hearing. A proportion of these will include patients, service users and colleagues who may have been significantly harmed by the registrant’s behaviour. Such cases may include behaviours associated with sexual abuse, harassment and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...care – it’s nothing to do with me brigade’. This disinterest chimes with some recent primary phase research by Dobson and Stephenson (published in the UKLA Journal Literacy) and not only does it represent a clear cause for concern, it calls for action. Young people can feel distanced from the act of writing, particularly if teachers retain too strong a grasp on the...
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Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...care as areas that needed particular attention. In England, a Care Quality Commission (an independent regulator of health and social care) report estimate that only a quarter of children and young people who require treatment for a mental health problem are able to access this treatment. Children and young people also felt that CAMHS staff did not have enough time to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...adult and this raises a question: how do children, who are generally thought to be less skilled and knowledgeable than adults, acquire such a complex system at such a young age? Early learning centre [Young child kissing pregnancy 'bump']Language learning certainly begins early. At 35 weeks old, babies can already distinguish between different vowel sounds. That is not 35...
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