Welcome to the Working Together with Parents Network
Welcome to the Working Together with Parents Network
Delivered online using Teams
14:00 - 16:00 Thursday, 10 April 2025
This webinar welcomes you to the Working Together with Parents Network. It's a free to join UK-wide network for professionals from adults and children’s social care, education, health, legal and independent advocacy sectors working with parents with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.
Research in Practice, part of the National Children's Bureau family, is proud to become the new home for the Working Together with Parents Network. Following 18 years at The School for Policy Studies at Bristol University and with over 1,000 members, the network aims to raise awareness of the issues that parents face and improve ways that parents with learning disabilities and learning difficulties are supported.
The network offers dedicated resources designed to support professionals working with parents with learning disabilities and learning difficulties. By joining the network, you will be kept up to date with policy, practice and key legal developments. You will also offered opportunities to exchange knowledge and share practice with fellow professionals and experts across the field.
Book your place
By becoming a member of the network and joining this webinar you will have the opportunity to:
- Meet the team that supports the Working Together with Parents Network at Research in Practice.
- Explore the new Working Together with Parents Network resources.
- Learn more about upcoming work to support parents with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.
Following this webinar, you will:
- Know more about the Working Together with Parents Network new home and the team that support the network.
- Be able to access resources to support work with parents with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.
- Understand the benefits of becoming a member of the Working Together with Parents Network.
Audience Types
Commissioners
People with lived experience and their families
Policy makers
Practitioners
Principal Social Worker (PSW)
Residential / care home workers
Senior leaders
Senior practitioners
Social workers
Strategic leads
Team leaders
Workforce development teams
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Child and family assessment | The law and the family and youth justice systems | Relationships and effective direct work | Lead and govern excellent practice | Promote and govern excellent practice | Shaping and influencing the practice system | Confident analysis and decision-making | Creating a context for excellent practice | Designing a system to support effective practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Support effective decision-making | The role of social workers | Person-centred practice | Safeguarding | Mental capacity | Professional ethics and leadership | Direct work with individuals and families | Values and ethics | Developing confident and capable social workers | Assuring good social work practice and development | Promoting and supporting critical analysis and decision-making | Influencing and governing practice excellence within the organisation and community
CQC - Responsive | Well-led
PCF - Values and ethics | Diversity and equality | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing