Substitute care and aftercare in child protection (5cr)

Objective

Students
• are familiar with and know how to apply legislation relating to substitute care and aftercare and know the quality criteria of substitute care as factors guiding professional activities
• understand the role and contents of the personal key worker’s tasks and family work from the child and family’s perspective
• understand the role of social guidance in family care
• understand the role of continuity in substitute care and aftercare during changes and transitions
• observe and develop expertise by experience in child protection
• identify preventive and exposing vicarious traumatisation factors and understand the role of occupational wellbeing in child protection

Content

• recognition of adverse and protective underlying factors of placement in care and education
• network-based advocacy and working with the immediate network
• forms of substitute care, high-quality substitute care as family care and institutional care matched to individual needs
• social guidance as part of high-quality substitute care and aftercare
• professional orientations and methodology of child protection