7: Downloadable materials and further support

If you train social workers and would like to conduct parts of this training in face-to-face training sessions we have made available downloadble Word and PowerPoint documents.

Word downloads

• Word: Training 1 Thinking about care
• Word: Training 2 Thinking about care and childhood
• Word: Training 3 Professionals' perspectives
  • Word: Training 3 Brandon's and Lauren's quotes
• Word: Training 4 UASC's perspectives on care

PowerPoint downloads

• PowerPoint: Training 1 Thinking about care
• PowerPoint: Training 2 Thinking about care and childhood
• PowerPoint: Training 3 Professionals' perspectives
• PowerPoint: Training 4 UASC's perspectives on care

Further training

In addition to the training provision, you might also find the following courses useful:

• Immigration and Social Work Services training, Immigration and Social Work Services.
• Social Workers Without Borders. You can also find a list of training providers on the Refugee Council website.

Other useful website resources

• The Right to Remain Toolkit
• Every Child Protected Against Trafficking Useful tools
• No Recourse to Public Funds Support for migrant families
• Children's Legal Centre Research and reports
• No Recourse to Public Funds: A Toolkit for social workers in England

Acknowledgements

This free training program and the associated research was made possible from funding provided by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC – ES/S001980/1). We would also like to thank Dr. Deborah Hadwin for providing her social work expertise and providing feedback.

Authors

Sarah Crafter is a Professor in Cultural-Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology and Counselling, at The Open University. Her work is broadly interested in young people’s migration experiences and how they impact on their everyday lives, particularly transitions to adulthood. Her work mostly falls along two strands: i) a focus a child language brokers, who are children and young people who translate and interpret for family members following migration and ii) a focus on the care of separated child migrants as the navigate the asylum-welfare nexus. Prof. Crafter is the lead author of Developmental transitions: Exploring stability and change through the lifespan (2019, Routledge).

Evangelia Prokopiou is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and lead for the Diversity, Community and Identity SIG of the Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Northampton. Her key area of teaching and research interest focuses on dialogical self theory; the impact of immigration and cultural change on identities, families and communities; and on the constructions of diverse, ‘non-normative’ childhoods. She is particularly interested in exploring the ways children and young people with multiple cultural affiliations construct and negotiate their identities in culturally diverse settings. This interest has led Evangelia to become involved in a number of projects exploring child language brokering in schools, young people’s experiences in supplementary schools and separated child migrants’ experiences of care and caring relationships.