Most social workers learn age assessments through trial and error - picking up bits from colleagues, hoping they're doing it right, dreading the day a report gets challenged. This course is the shortcut. In five focused modules, you'll learn exactly how to plan, conduct, analyse, and write up age assessments that are legally defensible. By the end, you won't just understand the process - you'll have a clear framework you can use with confidence, every time.
This is the foundation course in our Age Assessment Training Series - a comprehensive overview designed to give you confidence and competence. More advanced and specialist modules are in development.
Age Assessment Foundations- Training Course
£29.00Price
5 narrated modules with professionally designed slides (approximately 50 minutes total):
- Module 1: Legal and Policy Framework – Merton principles, key case law, and what gets assessments overturned
- Module 2: Planning and Preparation – Interpreters, appropriate adults, environment, and setting up for success
- Module 3: Conducting the Assessment – Rapport, signposting, core areas to explore, handling inconsistencies, trauma-informed practice
- Module 4: Analysis and Decision-Making – Weighing evidence, balance of probabilities, the minded-to process
- Module 5: Writing the Assessment – Structure, reasoning, language, and conclusions that stand up to scrutiny
