Legal Training - Court Skills for Social Workers

DCC Interactive Ltd

These practical, structured legal training courses are designed to ensure that social workers are familiar with the procedures involved and equiped with the necessary skills.

How the adversarial system works
The procedures, order of events and roles of those in the adversarial system
Effectively taking the oath/affirmation
Techniques lawyers use in cross-examination and how to handle them
How to prepare to give clear, honest and objective evidence
How to make appropriate use of supporting evidence, documents and notes when giving evidence
How to give confident and clear testimony under cross-examination
Understand how to collect information more effectively by knowing how it is included in written evidence
Understand how to use records as primary sources of information
Identify the issues, facts and sources and weight of them
Appropriate layout, format and style
To be able to competently complete Section 7 and Section 37 reports
Use written information as a basis for giving evidence in court
To provide an overview of the way in which the pre proceedings protocol and the Public Law Outline currently operate
To consider developing good practice in the context of the PLO
To develop an understanding of the changes brought about by the SSW-b Act for children within care proceedings who are looked after