wide range of subjects including: policies and procedures, health and safety, risk assessment and safeguarding. Late last year social workers / case managers were provided with a specialised manager’s induction including safeguarding training. This year they were also offered management training alongside the updating of the Manager’s Learning Organisation Jamma Umoja continues to be a source of placements for a range of universities providing social work degree courses: including Kent Medway, Canterbury Christchurch, Goldsmiths, DeMontfort, Kingston Brunel, Anglia Ruskin, Buckinghamshire, London Metropolitan and Greenwich. We have also run a volunteer programme for seeking to gain social care experience en route for health and social care training. We regularly have student Health Visitors spend time with us. We also provide placements for students undertaking a variety of Health and Social Care Courses at different levels. We continue to provide placements for psychology undergraduates at East London University. We have over the years provided international students, academics and other professionals short placements with us for comparative learning. Quality Assurance Previously the University of East London worked in partnership with JU to undertake research to assist us building a more robust Quality Assurance system including gaining feedback from service users. The research highlighted that post placement requests for feedback was not productive. Feedback forms are available for service users to offer their views and a red pillar box for any are offered regular spaces to offer feedback and receive it. They are given an exit interview prior to discharge. We are continuing to work on setting up initiatives to systematically collect consumer feedback from professionals. Supervision
prognosis is very promising conversely to consider a transition into the community prior to the full 12 week period. Everyone is focused on minimizing delay for children and where parents are clearly ‘not ready’ this programme will enable parallel planning to be fast tracked. We are clear that we are not able to offer the depth of work in 6 weeks that we could in 12. A 12 week assessment will be reviewed at six weeks with a recommendation meeting at ten weeks. It is vital that the Letter of Instruction is provided from the outset of the placement even if in draft form. At each review the LOI will be revisited to consider the progress of the assessment and the Chair will summarise the work to be done before the next review. Jamma Umoja will maintain independent views, whilst ensuring that there are close working relationships with key professionals and the family. Jamma Umoja’s assessments are underpinned by the Assessment Framework for Children and Families and the Five Outcomes of Every Child Matters. Jamma Umoja aims to make clear recommendations which will assist in making care plans which are in the best interests of children Professional arrangements Our professional practice is informed by key government guidance eg Working Together to Safeguard Children March 2015, the London Child Protection Procedures 5th Edition, National Minimum Standards for Residential Family Centres 2013 (Care Standards Act 2000); Regulations 2002 Residential Family Centres. We also have our own comprehensive set of professional policies and procedures to inform our practice.