Program Reviews
SCS has a proven history of providing high quality program and project reviews for agencies across the country. For instance, our team recently reviewed a family intervention service across ten sites in one state, assessing the program's intake, assessment and intervention processes, to ensure consistency and quality service delivery.
Quality Assurance
SCS has a dedicated Quality Assurance (QA) team to ensure our own internal assessments and reports are exceptionally written, both in content and presentation. This is a service we also offer to all of our external clients, offering them objective, independent review of their documents by skilled, experienced practitioners.
For more information, download our QA flyer
Peer Mentoring Program
Provide your assessment and case management team members with guidance and mentoring to ensure best practice andimproved outcomes for clients and service delivery. Our Peer Mentoring Program (PMP) is a complementary service to line management; we offer personalised mentoring sessions to guide staff through every step of an assessment or case work process, culminating in the Quality Assurance (QA) of their final report or case plan, ensuring exceptional practice in content, process and presentation.
Leadership Development
At SCS, our Senior Leadership Team collectively brings over 25 years of hands-on expertise in child protection, leadership and organisational management. We offer tailored leadership development opportunities, from external supervision to specialised training days for panels, management and senior staff. We have developed LEAD, a leadership excellence and development program designed to equip emerging leaders across the human services sector with the skills and knowledge needed to grow and succeed in their roles.
Specialist Projects
Every agency is different and has unique needs. Whatever your requirements, the Social Care Solutions team can offer a bespokeapproach to assisting your agency, team or service. Contact us to discuss how we can support you.
Team Development
Outsourcing team development programs and team building days ensures clients can fully engage in their own team processes,rather than having to facilitate or manage these important events themselves. SCS can build, facilitate and evaluate team building experiences for your small to medium services in child protection and child-related fields.
Training
For Organisations
SCS has a range of standardised training, including Circles of Security, DiSC and Shared Lives. We have a number of premier packages as well including the Assessment Writing Workshop and Identifying and Assessing Risk in Strengths Based Practice. We also co-design, build and deliver bespoke training packages, including train-the-trainer systems, to suit organisation's unique needs.
For Practitioners
SCS has a strong reputation for building training and professional development to meet our clients’ unique and specific needs. Teams who struggle with difficult conversations, case note writing, self-care and a myriad of other topics consistently return to SCS to have training built that is written by practitioners, for practitioners, to ensure attendees embed their learnings and improve their practice.
For Early Educators
SCS has a strong reputation for delivering training and professional development tailored to the unique needs of the early education sector. Early education professionals who face challenges in identifying and responding to child protection concerns consistently turn to SCS for training that is designed to be practical, relevant, and impactful.
Whether you need foundational knowledge or specialised training, SCS delivers evidence-based, engaging programs that support early educators in safeguarding the children in their care.
For Caregivers
SCS provides practical, evidence-based training to support caregivers, guardians, and parents in creating safe and nurturing environments. From managing challenging behaviors to trauma-informed care, our programs offer valuable tools to strengthen family connections and improve outcomes for children, young people, their families and those who care for them.
On-Demand Training
Looking for flexibility? Access our on-demand training sessions anytime, anywhere through our bespoke training platform. Available 24/7, these sessions let you learn at your own pace while benefiting from the same high-quality, trauma-informed and strengths-based content we're known for.
Assessments
Foster and Kinship Assessments
SCS has assessors, trained and mentored by our senior practitioners, to complete foster and kinship care assessments, both initials and renewals, across the country. Where required, these staff are Step-by-Step accredited. Due to the increasingly high demand for skilled assessors, it’s important to register your interest quickly to secure one of our specialist assessors.
Parenting Capacity Assessments
Sensitively and respectfully assessing parental capacity is a renown skillset of the SCS team. Providing a comprehensive risk assessment with detailed recommendations for support or ongoing intervention ensures confidence in restoration and reunification cases.
Guardianship Assessments
The specialist role of assessing potential guardians is niche skillset. The team at SCS are available to complete Guardianship and Permanency Carer assessments across the country.
Coaching and Mentoring
A range of coaching and mentoring opportunities are available through skilled senior SCS practitioners, offering guidance and support through assessments, case work, leadership and general child protection and child-related fields.
Support
Placement Support
SCS has a team of placement support practitioners and youth workers who provide in home or in placement assistance to stabilise and reduce placement breakdowns, support children to be reunified or prevent children entering the care system. Through provision of practical assistance, psycho-education, trauma training and parenting support, this vital service offers short to long-term interventions across multiple states.
For more information, download our QA flyer
Family Group Meetings
SCS have trained Family Group Meeting convenors able to provide assistance to government and agencies with case management delegation, to facilitate safe, supported and respectful case planning discussions.
For more information, download our QA flyer
Policy and Tender Writing
Policy and tender writing is a niche skillset and SCS can assist your team to write, review or evaluate your organisational policies and procedures, and complete tender submissions on your behalf.
Complex Case Reviews
The objectivity and independence of the SCS team offers a unique opportunity to review agencies’ complex cases and consider recommendations or suggestions for positive outcomes for clients. These reviews can provide suggestions for potential policy and process changes to reduce risk to clients, staff and organisations.
Life Story Work
Trained by renowned LSW specialist Richard Rose, our SCS staff have the skills and resources to complete time-limited Life Story Work with clients directly or provide support to your teams to deliver this crucial work with children and young people in and on the edge of foster and kinship care.
Professional Supervision
Formal external supervision is available for social workers, student social workers and child protection practitioners across the country, facilitated in person or online.