At long last we are proud to be launching our brand new website and learning and development platform !
So what’s new?
We wanted to improve the user experience on the platform, so if you want to find something on the site, we have a new search function where you can type in the item you are looking for, and it brings up your search results.
Events page with discounted rates for members
We have built our own online event platform, so you can buy direct from our website without paying the extra booking fees you incur from other sites such as Eventbrite, giving you more choice on how you book.
All purchases are made through our secure online payment system and you can also cancel tickets if you need to.
Click on the latest events section of the website to see details of other events and to book your place.
To access the discounted rate, you will need to enter the email you log in with and enter a discount code issued to members. The code can only be used by each member, once per event
The discounts do not apply to any of the MRC events, as they are already discounted. If you are not in one of our members areas this code will not work.
We are pleased to be working in partnership with the Making Research Count Team, part of King’s College London, to bring you exclusive access to their open programme of events. You can only access this rate if you book through our events page or on Eventbrite
Free members events
Throughout the year we will be hosting free events for members on a range of topics. If you have any suggestions for a topic or would like to facilitate a session get in touch share your skills and knowledge.
Brand new membership portal
If you are already a member in one of our learners areas such as Return to Social Work or Social Work Together Essentials, you are given free access to the learning and development resources and discounted rates for our events and services.
Access to useful resources
In the resources section some of the free content is restricted to members only, to access locked content you will need to be logged into the site.
Free access to the Golden Blues
The Golden Blues is a broker who are able to negotiate special offers on a range of insurance and financial products. For example through the Golden Blues I was able to access private healthcare , and i receive regular rewards that sometimes cover the cost of my monthly premium ! So I end up getting free private healthcare.
Unlimited access to free e learning
We are creating more e learning courses for you to access.
Discounted rates on 1-1 services.
For example on coaching, mentoring or reflective supervision
CPD hot topic !
We are really pleased to be launching an important seminar on the Liberty Protection Safeguards.
This is an essential briefing to gain an insight into the key legislative changes regarding mental capacity.
We have one of the leading lawyers Tim Spencer Lane, speaking at this seminar, with a Q and A.
Date: Tuesday 20th April 2021
Time: 6pm-7.30 pm
In July 2018, the government published a Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, which passed into law in May 2019. It replaces the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) with a scheme known as the Liberty Protection Safeguards
This seminar will provide an overview of the following:
Background to the LPS – why they were introduced and key principles
What types of arrangements can be authorised and by whom?
The authorisation process
The key safeguards – including rights to advocacy and the Court of Protection
Other features of the LPS – including interim authorisations and the Mental Health Act interface
Next steps – the public consultation on the Code and regs, and transitional arrangements
Facilitator: Tim Spencer Lane
Tim is a lawyer who specialises in mental capacity, mental health, and social care law. He works for the Government Legal Department (Department of Health and Social Care) where he advises on mental capacity and mental health law.
At the Law Commission, Tim led the review of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Time to start planning your ongoing continual professional development(CPD) for 2021 With over 90,000 social workers having just renewed their professional social work registration its a good time to start planning your regular CPD.
We are pleased to be launching a wide range of CPD events for social workers and those who want to upskill themselves. We have listed a few of our upcoming events, more will be added over the coming months.
We are pleased to launch our 2021 programme of events. We will be adding more programmes in the coming months.
If you are a member then you can enjoy our special discounted rates with courses starting from of £15 + VAT and fees. If you are not a member and would like to know more, then contact us for more information.
Chinara Enterprises has a team of associates that cover a range of specialisms, which include social work, coaching, mentoring, project management, training and business development.
If you are a registered social worker, you need to undertake regular CPD and reflect on it, so why. not make 2021 the year you make a regular appointment with yourself to maintain your CPD.
Course Title: Learning cycle and reflective learning
Date Thursday 21 January 2021
Facilitator: Shahilla Barok
Target Audience: Social Workers and anyone wishing to identify and maximise their learning style
Learning Objectives
This 90 minute webinar covers:• Identify how you learn best • Introduction to the Learning Cycle • Apply the learning cycle to your learning style • Describe meaningful reflection • Embed reflective learning to your course • Use spacing to embed learning
Course Title: Continual Professional Development (CPD) Masterclass
Learning Objectives
All social workers registered with Social Work England are required to maintain and evidence their CPD before the annual renewal deadline in November each year.
This event aims to : To talk through the CPD requirements for Social Work England and use group work to demonstrate how to meet the requirements and record online
To work through examples on how to meet the requirements to provide more confidence in regular recording and reflecting of your CPD
Date Monday 25 January 2021 5.30 pm-7.00 pm, Monday 15 March 2021
Facilitator: Carol Stewart: Director Chinara Enterprises
Target Audience: Registered Social Workers
Fees: £25 + VAT for non members, £15 + VAT and fees for members
Course Title: Group Reflective Supervision for Social workers in adult’s social work
Facilitator Sue Conn
Learning Objectives
Chinara Enterprises is pleased to be launching the first in our series of group reflective supervisions.
Targeted at independent social workers, or those who do not have access to reflective supervision from a qualified and experienced social worker.
The reflective supervision sessions, provide a space for social workers to critically reflect on their practice, and apply learning to practice
The sessions will be facilitated by qualified and experienced social workers and will be in groups of up 10 people. Each group includes up to 5 sessions that take place bi-monthly.
You can choose one of five sessions or attend all five. You can choose your preferred specialism of Adults social work or Children and Families social work.
The sessions will provide an opportunity to:
Develop an understanding of the principles of reflective supervision
Develop the skills to give and receive reflective supervision
Learn about the different models of supervision
Reflect of case study examples
Plan your personal development
The reflective supervision sessions will support you in reflecting on your continual professional development (CPD) as part of the mandatory requirement to record and reflect on CPD for Social Work England.
Dates: You can choose one or all five sessions: 28/1/21, 24/3/21, 27/5/21, 28/7/21, 29/9/21
Course Title: Group Reflective Supervision for Child and Family Social Workers
Facilitator Sue Skrobanski
Learning Objectives
Chinara Enterprises is pleased to be launching the first in our series of group reflective supervisions.
Targeted at independent social workers, or those who do not have access to reflective supervision from a qualified and experienced social worker.
The reflective supervision sessions, provide a space for social workers to critically reflect on their practice, and apply learning to practice
The sessions will be facilitated by qualified and experienced social workers and will be in groups of up 10 people. Each group includes up to 5 sessions that take place bi-monthly.
You can choose one of five sessions or attend all five. You can choose your preferred specialism of Adults social work or Children and Families social work.
The sessions will provide an opportunity to:
Develop an understanding of the principles of reflective supervision
Develop the skills to give and receive reflective supervision
Learn about the different models of supervision
Reflect of case study examples
Plan your personal development
The reflective supervision sessions will support you in reflecting on your continual professional development (CPD) as part of the mandatory requirement to record and reflect on CPD for Social Work England.
Dates: You can choose one or all five sessions: 10/2/21, 14/4/21, 9/6/21, 11/8/21, 13/10/21
Target Audience: Social Workers and other professionals who would like to develop resilience techniques
Learning Objectives
What does ‘being resilient’ mean? How resilient are you currently? Sharing values and what’s important Identifying personal resilience goals using the Wheel of Life Group (blind) coaching to set and start addressing personal resilience goals
Course title: Understanding, Stress, Pressure and Burnout
Date: Thursday 11 March 2021
Facilitator: Sarah Jones
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, delegates will be able to: • Define what is meant by stress, pressure and burnout • Understand the main causes of stress and burnout • Recognise the signs and symptoms of stress and burnout • Understand the impact of stress on an individual’s performance
With just over 2 days to go for social workers to renew their registration with Social Work England and upload at least one piece of evidence of continual professional development (CPD), why is that after nearly 11 months, despite countless engagement events, webinars and free guidance, that there are still over 25% of social workers have not yet renewed their registration or uploaded their CPD?
An article in Community Care dated 26th November revealed that 25% have yet to renew and risk being de registered on December 1st, there were calls from unions, and employers to extend the deadline.
Get access to all resources, eLearning and discounted personnel development services.
Time to start planning your ongoing continual professional development(CPD) for 2021 With over 90,000 social workers having just renewed their professional social work registration its a good time to start planning your regular CPD.
We are pleased to be launching a wide range of CPD events for social workers and those who want to upskill themselves. We have listed a few of our upcoming events, more will be added over the coming months.
Get access to all resources, eLearning and discounted personnel development services.
On this day 16th April 2008 , twelve years ago, I proudly registered my own limited company. It’s been the most amazing journey to say the least.
The Chinara logo
I started Chinara Enterprises so that I could do everything that I enjoy doing under through one company. All of my life I have been committed to developing and supporting people, as well as creating opportunities to bring people together and promoting talent.
The name Chinara is of Nigerian origin and means God receives, and I chose that not just because of my faith, but because I believe that every person has the ability to realise their potential. The candle symbol in my logo represents the light that shines inside all us, and my aspiration is to enable people and organisation to achieve their ambitions and provide a beacon of hope to others.
Over the past 12 years I have had the opportunity to work and engage with so many amazing people through all of the many organisations I have worked with. With an expert team of associates that has grown over the years, we have been able to achieve successes in a number of areas. My very first contract was with the then Children’s Workforce Development Council, this was then merged with the Department for Education. We worked with over 30 young people to develop a good practice guide in participation with young people for the children’s workforce.
Carol Stewart Director at BYA awards
Chinara team with Diversity
Being filmed for ITV
Since then the Chinara Enterprises team have been engaged on a number of interim assignments for local councils have organised events, large concerts, conferences, offered mentoring, coaching, supervision, activities for young people, supported charities and much more !!
Carol with Don Gilet BBC
Carol and Rudolph Walker CBE
Carol and Beverley Knight MBE
CommTas delivering training for Chinara
Manchester training event
Its hard to say what we are most proud of as there are so many things and so many people who have been a part of our journey. My right hand people Stephanie Brown and Michael Cheesman have been my constant support from day when I started, and we are still an awesome team. I would not be where I am without their support, guidance and patience. My family too have been a source of constant support and encouragement, especially my son and my late daughter, who often get called upon to assist me with our many projects. The refreshed website in fact was designed and developed my my son’s company You Now Have Digital and Delton Digital
Podcast interview with Social Personnel
Training event in London
Young people activity event
Our associate team has grown over the 12 years, I now have a database of over 100 associates across the country who provide training, coaching, mentoring and consultancy. I would also like to thank my accountants Bayar Hughes and Co and my insurance broker Acorn Insurance, and my solicitor Richard Long who have also stuck by me in my 12 years.
We are very excited to be working on the national Return to Social Work Programme again this year. This will be the third year running the programme, and we have been proud to see the achievements of previous candidates on the programme. Check out the Return to Social Work page for more information about the programme https://www.local.gov.uk/return-to-social-work.
BBC
CPD event
Lyn Romeo
Chinara Team at Enfield
Chinara selected as a finalist in 2017
Personnel Today wards 2017
We have had some great feedback from our customers over the years below are just a few
“I’ve found Carol and Chinara Enterprises to be highly knowledgeable and helpful when it comes to social work and anything to do with Social Work England. She ran a CPD workshop for our locum candidates and we received such lovely and appreciative feedback with some asking for more workshops to be run. She has also provided interview coaching for some of my candidates which has been informative and useful to said candidates. Carol is approachable and friendly, and I would highly recommend her and her knowledge to any social work agency or social workers in general.” Sian Homer – Senior Recruitment Consultant Connect2Socialwork (Part of Commercial Services Trading Ltd)https://www.connect2staff.co.uk/jobseekers/sectors/qualified-social-workers/#!/
CPD event
I want to congratulate Chinara Enterprises on its 12th anniversary. It is a tremendous achievement, one that you should be exceptionally proud of as you have put a lot of work into the company and it is evidently clear the fruits of your labour is yielding good business opportunities for you. Keep up the fantastic work as you are an inspiration to others to follow. Well done Everett Henry Director Commtas http://www.commtas.com/
CommTas delivering training for Chinara
“I have known Carol, both professionally and personally for a number of years. Carol is an amazing individual with a wealth of knowledge, experience and ability who is both well liked and respected as a teacher, mentor and social worker. Carol started Chinara Enterprises a number of years ago and I have been fortunate enough to work with her on a variety of occasions. I would highly recommend Chinara Enterprises to anyone looking for high-quality, sector specific social work/return to social work training provider. I wish Carol and her associates the very best for the future” Chris Griffin Commercial Director Social Personnel https://socialpersonnel.com/
CPD event for Social Personnel
Podcast interview with Social Personnel
Thank you for the webinar. It really helped me to focus on my development and assisting my social work team to ensure they are focussing on their own development and compliant with the expectations of social work England. I will share my learning with the team. If you are doing a webinar aimed at newly qualified social workers or students this would be useful W. S Attendee on a recent CPD webinar
Training event in London
Finally I would like to thank all of you who have supported Chinara Enterprises on our journey over the past 12 years, whether you are a client, supplier, promoter, artist, attendee, associate . We have a very exciting journey ahead of us, and we look forward to another 12 years and more ! Until our next blogg !!
Chinara Enterprises is an organisation that seeks to provide you with a wide range of expertise in workforce development and organisational development.
Email: Havering Social Care Academy sharedlearning@havering.gov.uk for any queries regarding the Social Care Academy
admin@chinaraenterprises.com for queries relating to the Chinara Enterprises programme.
Overview
The North East London International Recruitment project, Care Providers Learning and Development Programme, brought to you by Chinara Enterprises Ltd, is designed for care workers and managers across North East London, working in residential and domiciliary care settings.
The programme is being funded by the international recruitment fund and being managed by the London Borough of Havering Social Care Academy on behalf of North East London boroughs.
What is in the portal?
This portal has been developed to provide you access to the essential learning and development courses developed for care providers across North East London.
You will have access to this portal until March 2025, fully funded. You are welcome to navigate around the additional resources, e learning and courses on this site. If you do wish to attend any of the other available seminars, please discuss with your line manager in the first instance.
If you wish to continue to access the site beyond this date, you will be able to join for a fee. Please contact us nearer the time to enquire.
About Chinara Enterprises Ltd
Chinara Enterprises was established in April 2008 Our primary objectives are to:
• Provide workforce development/organisational development. • Learning and development for organisations and individuals • One to one service to support individuals with professional and personal development, this includes coaching, mentoring and reflective supervision. • Developing and implementing workforce strategy • Recruitment and retention
We have a range of trainers from across England that specialise in health, social care, education, coaching, mentoring and business development.
Carol Stewart is the sole director for the company, we have 1 employee and a self-employed project manager/administrator.
Our portfolio of work includes the following: • Workshops for agency social workers on a range of specialist topics in health and social care. • Supporting social workers returning to social work practice • Learning and development programmes for overseas social workers, Occupational therapists, and care workers • Leadership and management programmes • Coaching • Mentoring • Health and social care courses
Welcome to your Liquid Personnel learner’s area! We are delighted to be able to provide this excellent resource as part of our ongoing commitment to supporting you with your continuous professional development (CPD).
Liquid have partnered with Chinara Enterprises, who specialise in workforce development, coaching/mentoring and training, to develop this page. It will be regularly refreshed with new content and learning opportunities.
Through the learner’s area, you will have exclusive access to tools that will support you in your personal and professional development and help you to meet the requirements for continued registration with Social Work England.
You will find a range of resources to support your training, including; webinars, e-learning courses, coaching/mentoring, access to Making Research Count courses at discounted rates, a dedicated resources area and more.
