Specialist Adoption and Special Guardianship Order Support Services

Training is expected to cover a wide range of skills and approaches as identified within a family individual plan and the most common types of training required are listed below. All training offered should: be delivered by suitably qualified trainers with subject specialism; be clearly focused on meeting the needs and circumstances of adoptive and SGO families; be planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team; feedback from all course attendees should be sought for each course and given to each LA.

This lot includes the following types of training but is not limited to:

1.1. Non Violent Resistance

1.2. Attachment

1.3. Matching

1.4. Transitions

1.5. Theraplay

1.6. Communicating and connecting

1.7. Life story

1.8. Contact

1.9. Friends and family

1.10. PACE

1.11. Therapeutic parenting

Therapeutic intervention will be wide ranging in order to meet individual needs but should be evidence based and in line with therapies listed under the ASF. They must be tailored to meet the needs and circumstances of adoptive and SGO families and planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team.

This lot includes the following types of therapeutic intervention but is not limited to:

2.1 Art therapy

2.2 Dance movement therapy

2.3 Yoga

2.4 Music therapy

2.5 Play therapy

2.6 Group-based art or play therapy

2.7 Filial therapy

2.8 Lego Therapy

2.9 Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

2.10 Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)

2.11 Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)

2.12 Internal Families System Therapy

2.13 Reducing anxiety management plan (RAMP)

2.14 Sensory Integration Processing Therapy or therapeutic listining Programme

2.15 Cognitive Therapy

2.16 Education Psychotherapy

2.17 Group Based Art or Play Therapy

2.18 Attachment Therapy

2.19 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)

2.20 Child to Parent Violence (CPV) Individual Based Programme

2.21 Multi-systemic family therapy

2.22 Systemic family therapy

2.23 Psychodynamic therapy

2.24 Theraplay

2.25 Koru Project

2.26 Therapeutic life story work for the child

2.27 Individual psychological therapy

2.28 Drama Therapy

2.29 Neuro-integration system therapy (NIS)Psychoanalytical therapy

2.30 Video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline (VIPP-SD)

Following a social work assessment of support needs, there are occasions when a specialist assessment is indicated. Providers will deliver robust clinical assessment of children and young people’s developmental trauma and attachment. All assessments provided should be delivered by suitably qualified trainers and planned and delivered to timescales agreed with each adoption team. The assessments that this service will provide include, but are not limited to, the following:

3.1. Comprehensive systemic family assessments

3.2. Psychological & psychiatric assessments

3.3. Assessments of therapeutic needs

3.4. Assessments of contact needs

3.5. Sensory integration/occupational therapy assessments

3.6. Multi-disciplinary assessments

Short breaks commissioned will include therapeutic breaks for the whole family or child only to provide structured and supported time with the access to therapeutic services and an opportunity to develop peer relationships with other adoptive and SGO families. Providers of breaks with be expected to work with the Local Authority to provide a service that will meet the needs of the families refereed.

4.1 Therapeutic Short Breaks