Principal Social Worker - Workforce Development. Off-Site Practice Education Mentoring PE Students. ASYE , assessment, support and moderation. Trainer - Voice of the Child workshops. Practice Educator Mastery Workshops Critical Reflection workshops

Creative Training Solutions specialises in Voice of the Child and workforce development for Social Workers, enabling Local Authorities and Social Care agencies to meet the national workforce reform agenda. Our expertise includes:Creation and facilitation of the Listening to Children Framework delivered to: • Hartlepool Council - Social Workers, Early Help Practitioners and Foster Carers • Darlington Council - Social Workers and Early Help Practitioners • Universities, including - Sunderland, Teesside and the University of Northumbria, at Newcastle - Social work students (MA and BA)• New College Durham – Social work students (BA)• Step Up To Social Work (North East Partnership) - Students • Consultancy in Social Care Workforce Development • Internal and external moderation of ASYE• NQSW portfolio development to meet required standards• Membership of North East Alliance Teaching Partnerships • Membership of North East Step Up to Social Work Regional Partnership"Very clear. Well delivered, highly interactive and original. A must for any student social worker. " - 2nd Year BA Social Work Student - Teesside University"I think the workshop was really fantastic – very useful and delivered well. It is especially relevant to me as I am going to be starting my placement shortly and this really has prepared me with lots of tools, ideas and techniques - and the really good bit – how to use them in practice" - 3rd year BA Social Work Student - Teesside University"Very informative and knowledgeable, interesting to listen to and shows a lot of enthusiasm and care" - 2nd year BA Social Work Student - University of Northumbria, at Newcastle " Really interesting and highly interactive. Gave me many ideas for listening and for interacting with children in the future. Lisa has lots of knowledge and experience and delivered an engaging presentation. " - Front Line Social Work Apprentice Hartlepool

Strategic lead for development and delivery of effective Children and Adult Social Worker Continual Professional Development.Creating workforce data to represent the Children's Social Worker Profile to support workforce planning and Ofsted InspectionDevelopment of Single Agency Safeguarding Training Programmes for Safeguarding and Children's Care and Social Care. Liaison with Teesside University on the provision of Social Work Programmes and also co ordination of social work student placementsCo ordination and roll out of Middlesbrough Manager Phase 2 and 3Critical Strategic friend to the review of Adult Social Care (Care Act and Early Help)Development and review of Workforce Development Service Promise Preparation of Social Worker profile information for Annex A Ofsted Inspection

Creation of the Early Help Core Offer, a competency based programme of inter- agency training for Early Help Practitioners Development of the 'Student Pod' in partnership with Teesside University as a new form of delivering group supervision to increase the quality of student social worker placementsFinalist for Team of the Year Award 2015 - Care Act Training ProgrammeDevelopment of the 5 Stage Impact Assessment and Evaluation ModelCoordination of the Solihull Train the Trainers Programme

Strategic Lead for the development and delivery of Vulnerable Children's Communication and Engagement Strategy. • Critical friend to the Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership and Children's Trust• Completion of inter-agency audit and mapping activities to scrutinise voice of the child and hold agencies to account• Creation and delivery of voice of the child staff development and service improvement tools • Development and delivery of Young People's Inspection Programmes • Development and delivery of Middlesbrough Children's Trust Engaging with Children and Young People Involvement Award and the NHS Your Welcome StandardsDevelopment and delivery of quality assurance and service improvement tools, including: • Involving Children and Young People in Decision Making, Standards and Guidance documents• Completion of an Audit of Service User Involvement (2007) applying the National Youth Agency Hear By Right Standards Framework to map practice and make recommendations for improvement. • Creation and co ordination of the Middlesbrough Young Children's Voices Network from 2007 to 2009 . • Participation in the National Young Children's Voices Network, amongst 17 Local Authorities. The network shared good practice, benefiting from the expertise of national consultants and advisors to the DCSF . Project Management of the Middlesbrough Young Children’s Voices Network • Development of the Early years Involvement Action Plan 2008-2009 (Middlesbrough Children and Young People's Trust) • Delivery of training on The Cube resource to a range of practitioners including: social workers, Early Help Practitioners , Health Professionals, Voluntary and Community Sector. 2009 to 2014• National Guest Speaker on Young Children's Voices Involvement at national EYFS event 2010

• Membership of the national research project , 'Communicating with Children: A two-way process', led by National Children's Bureau and feeding onto the DFES. The project was facilitated by national consultants, Ruth Dalzell and Judith Ellis over 2 years. The key areas of learning were, Safeguarding and Child Protection, young children's voices, culture and diversityand working with children with disabilities. The learning from the national project was delivered to social workers in Redcar and Cleveland through a series of workshops and seminars• Deliver of a range of schools based events and conferences to promote key Safeguarding messages • Development and delivery of a Young Inspection Programmes to enable the views of children and young people to feed into service review and improvement of improvement• Development of Voice of the Child workshops delivered to practitioners with children and young people• Creation of the Primary and Secondary School Council Toolkits to provide the pupils view on how to develop effective school councils

Completed children and young people's version of Quality Protects Plan 1999 and 2000.