Specialist profile

Mrs Catherine Thomas
Contact details
City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
Telephone: +447785931234
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Professional information
Specialism: Children and families
Location: England: East Midlands, England: South West, England: West Midlands
Profile:

Experienced social worker specialising in child protection, care planning and Public Law including extensive experience as a manager and Head of Service.
Specialist training and practice includes: ParentAssess (parents with learning difficulties); PAMS (parents with learning difficulties); AIM3 (children exhibiting sexually harmful behaviours); Parenting Assessments (Child in Need, Child Protection), PLO pre-proceedings and Court); Intensive Community-Based Parenting Assessments; Sibling Together or Apart Assessments; Reunification Assessments; Contact Assessments; Form C SGO / Kinship Assessments; Form F Fostering Assessments; Section 7 / 37 Reports.

I work with: Coaching/ mentoring of parents (families), Complaints, Court assessments, Direct work with families and carers, Expert witness, Family assessment, Inter-agency working, Quality assurance, Review and evaluation, Supervision
Qualifications:

2008 BSc Social Work (First Class); 2013 Post Graduate Diploma Social Work with Children and Families

Professional registrations: Social Work England
Extra skills:

Direct work skills; multi-agency working; analysis; report writing; child protection, Public Law, care and permanence planning, including adoption, SGO and kinship care.