Welcome to KSL

What’s coming up…

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Our next Mental Health First Aid course for individual registration will be held on 17 and 18 May, again at London University’s Euston campus. There are still many trained instructors who have not yet completed their two co-instruction requirements; we provide these opportunities.

Building on our awards ceremonies experience, we are managing a contract to provide a Creativity4Health event to promote and celebrate the creative achievements of Looked After Children in the South East region, and to promote health and wellbeing. On 9 March we will ask each LA lead to complete an online survey.

KSL: What’s new…

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We are working with Resli Costabell, our expert Trainer and Coach, to design and develop something rather different to assist local authorities struggling to recruit and retain social workers in statutory children and families work since the Baby Peter reporting, and will be consulting with councils, BASW and CWDC. Anyone with an interest in this work is welcome to express an opinion here on a title for these sessions. This builds on our work with Felicity Collier and Newham Council to design a tailored induction top-up programme for qualified children and families social workers recruited from overseas. We are now able to deliver more training pilots for local authorities and their recruitment agencies.

MHFA England has been supported by DH to establish itself as an independent social enterprise, like we are, and is developing its own new website - please note that this is the only official English site! It has now obtained the licence from MHFA Australia to adapt and implement for England, the Youth version of the highly successful Mental Health First Aid programme. Their National Training Team are aiming for a 1 June 2010 launch.

Following our recent research and design work with Steve Onyett and Mark McKergow for an Appreciative Leadership event with a difference, we are now keen to hear from potential host organisations to commission us to co-produce and manage innovative "unconferences". Appreciative leadership, self-directed support, child poverty, age equalities and youth crime are just some of the suggested topic headings under which such an event could deliver knowledge sharing and development in a highly recession-friendly and participatory way.

InControl have released details of their Big Event 2010 which is on the calendar for those like us with a passion for personalisation in health and social care service commissioning and provision.