The Quality of Substitute Care- a Challence for Vocational Education and Child

Welfare Services

Kirsi-Leena Frigren

1.10.2006-30.11.2008

The project is focusing on:

• How to improve qualifications and skills of professionals who are working in substitute care

• The partners are from Finland, Italy, Great-Britain and Estonia.

• To define what is good quality in substitute care

• What kind of knowledge and skills are demanded from professionals working in good-quality substitute care

• Material for supplementary training courses and teaching material for teachers

• Recommendations for vocational education will be produced during the project

The objectives are:

Products:

• a supplementary training programme for the training of children’s substitute care service providers for each of the partner countries in their respective languages

• a material package for the teachers implementing supplementary education in the partner countries

• a recommendation concerning the developing of educational contents of the courses considering substitute care in each of the countries to be distributed to all educational organisations

• a report consisting of the partners’ common view on substitute care services and their quality, requirements for the employees, and comparative information from the partner countries considering the norms of the quality of substitute care services and the training of substitute care employees

Finland:

P1 Satakunta University of Applied Sciences

P2 Viikari-home Ltd

P3 Lehmuskolo Ltd

P4 Porin College, social and health

P5 Turku School of Economics , Pori Unit

P6 Satakuntaliitto

P7 Central Union of Child Welfare in Finland

Partners

Italy:

• P8 Enaip Sardegna

• P9 The Municiplity of Cagliari

Estonia:

• P10 Tartu Ylikool Pärnu Kolledz

• P11 Haiba Lastekodu

Great-Britain:

• P 12 Royal Kingston Looked after and Adolescent Services

• P 13 School of Social Work, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences Kingston University/ St George's University of London

Partners

SAMK

Enaip Sardegna

Pärnu College of

Tartu University

Kingston Children andFamily Services

Lehmus-kolo

Satakunta-liitto

PAM

Kingston University

Haiba Lastekodu

Lastensuojelun keskusliitto

Viikari-koti

Municipality of Cagliari

TUKKK

Italian partner consortium Estonian partner consortium

Finnish partner consortium

UK partner consortium

•The project will be put into practice through workshops and seminars: some of the workshops will be local and some will include all partners

•In each partner country there is a responsible partner (partners 1, 8, 10 and 12)

•They are responsible for co-ordinating the consortium’s tasks and organising a seminar

•These partners form the project’s international management group

Working process

• The main responsible partner is Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK), which prepares the preliminary tasks for the national consortiums to perform before the international seminar

• In each international seminar the preliminary tasks will be discussed and agreed upon and the next tasks and their schedule will be arranged

• There will be four international seminars (Finland 2006/12, Italy 2007/03, Great Britain 2007/09 and Estonia 2008/06)

• SAMK will prepare the next preliminary tasks and plan the seminar together with the next responsible partner (8, 10 and 12).

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2006/12-2007/3Preliminary tasks

In national consortiums:

- norms- the education background

- the competence

2007/03-2007/09Preliminary tasks:

- formulating curriculum- formulating material package

- self evaluation

2007/09-2007/12Preliminary tasks

-gathering pilot information- carrying through of pilot

-gathering piloting material

2008/06Discussion on piloting

- proposals for improvement

2006/10-2006/12Preparing the

preliminary tasks

RESULT 1. The partners’ common view on the contenst and quality of children’s substitute care

RESULT1. The norms2. The definition of the professionals´ competence 3. Starting points for curriculum

RESULT1. Curriculum accepted2. Material package accepted3. Piloting plan accepted4. Intermediate evaluation criteria agreed upon

RESULT1. The supplementary training programme piloted completed 2. Discussion on pilot results, proposals for improvement given

RESULT1. The supplementary training programme is ready 2. The CD on the supplementary training programme is ready, sent to all partners and saved as a website

All partners: development, dissemination + exploitation of results

SAMK: Adminstration, coordination, contracting

Satakuntaliitto: evaluation and all partners: self evalutation

RESULTS

1. Supplementary training programme (5cr)

2. A material package for the teachers

3. A recommendation on the development of substitute care- related educational content

4. A report consisting of the partners’ common view on substitute care services

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