Court Skills for Childrens Social Workers

Course Aims:
These practical, structured legal training courses are designed to ensure that social workers are familiar with the procedures involved and equipped with the necessary skills.

Course Outcomes:

• The procedures, order of events and roles of those in the adversarial system
• Techniques lawyers use in cross examination and how to handle them
• How to make appropriate use of supporting evidence, documents and notes when giving evidence
• Understand how to use records as primary sources of information
• To be able to competently complete Section 7 and Section 37 reports
• To provide an overview of the way in which the pre proceedings protocol and the Public Law Outline currently operate