Background:
All staff employed within a multi-agency arena have an important role to play in safeguarding children and are often in key positions to identify and respond to concerns about abuse and neglect. This course is to enable all those who come into frequent contact with children and young people to develop awareness of, and the ability to act on, concerns about their welfare and safety.

Learning Outcomes:
•    What to do if they are concerned about the safety and welfare of a child: Disclosure
•    Their role and responsibility in relation to child protection
•    Categories of abuse, signs, symptoms and referral processes
•    Introduction to the legal framework

Target Group:
For staff who have occasional contact with children, young people and/or parents/carers.

Background:
This course aims to extend participants child protection knowledge base and extend that to practice. This course will develop participant’s knowledge skills and abilities to work together on the processes for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
•    Contribute to Child Protection plans and Child Protection Conferences
•    Understand ‘step up and step down’ processes when protecting children from harm
•    Gather, present and share information appropriately

Target Group:For staff who have regular contact or have a period of intense but irregular contact with children, young people and/or parents/carers. Participants must have completed a basic/introduction safeguarding course to be able to attend this course.

Background:
This course will develop practitioner’s knowledge skills and the ability to work together on the processes for Child Protection and promoting the welfare of children including those who are suffering, or at risk of suffering significant harm. This course will also outline the learning from recent Serious Case Reviews.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the training participants will:
•    Have the skills and knowledge to apply the principles that underpin effective child protection practice
•    Understand the roles and responsibilities of a core group member
•    Understand how they will contribute to Child Protection Plans and Core Group meetings
•    Have developed confidence in identifying and responding to children and young people at risk.

Target Group:
For staff who have regular contact or have a period of intense but irregular contact with children, young people and/or parents/carers. Participants must have completed a basic/introduction safeguarding course to be able to attend this course.

Background:
This course will develop knowledge and skills in the care and protection needs of disabled children, and to promote effective child protection practice with children who are disabled. We will be exploring the DCSF document on ‘Safeguarding Disabled Children’ and discussing the impact this has on working practices.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the training participants will be able to:
•    To explore our attitudes, fears and prejudice towards children with disabilities e.g. that sometimes might enable us to explain away their altered behaviours
•    Vulnerability to harm
•    Recognise the importance of observation and communicating with Disabled Children
•    Stage related/age related development
•    To reflect on models of disability and the implications for Child Protection
•    To identify blocks and develop skills in protecting disabled children
•    To raise awareness about how abuse might present in children with disabilities and be able to put it into context.
•    To look at the interagency assessment framework and children with disabilities.

Target Group:
Members of the workforce who have particular responsibilities in relation to undertaking or understanding section 47 enquires, including professionals from health, education, police and children’s social care; those who work with complex cases and social work staff responsible for co-ordinating assessments of children in need.

Professional advisers and designated lead professionals for child protection
Operational managers of services for children, young people and/or parents/carers.

Background:
Participants will get an opportunity to consider some of the dilemmas involved in working with families where there are concerns about emotional abuse and neglect.  Lessons from research and serious case reviews will be used, to enable participants to explore assessment processes as well as appropriate ways of intervening.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the training participants will be able to:
•    Recognise and respond to the indicators for emotional abuse and neglect.
•    Recognise attachment and attachment patterns.
•    Recognise the symptoms of emotional abuse and neglect
•    Refer to research and enquiry findings, including the impact of trauma and stress on parenting capacity; to assist in understanding the powerful energies at play when working with emotional abuse and neglect.
•    Work creatively with children and their families to build on strengths whilst ensuring that the child’s needs are safeguarded.
•    To place this work into the context of Every Child Matters, where the well-being of the child is promoted and professionals work together to achieve positive Outcomes for children and their families.

Target Group:Members of the workforce who have particular responsibilities in relation to undertaking or understanding section 47 enquires, including professionals from health, education, police and children’s social care; those who work with complex cases and social work staff responsible for co-ordinating assessments of children in need.

Professional advisers and designated lead professionals for child protection, Operational managers of services for children, young people and/or parents/carers may also find this course useful.

Background:
This is a half day basic introductory course which provides an overview into how children and young people access new information technologies, what the safety issues are and how we as professionals can help parents and young people to keep safe. Participants will gain an awareness of social media and new technological advances that children and young people are able to access.

Learning Outcomes:
Participants will;
• Have an increased knowledge of what Social Networking is and how children and young people access social medium
• Be aware of the risks associated with Social Media and the potential child protection issues that surround them
• Improve confidence when dealing with Social Media issues and to use their knowledge to support parents and children and young people to keep safe.

Background:
All staff employed within a multi-agency arena have an important role to play in safeguarding children and are often in key positions to identify and respond to concerns about abuse and neglect. This course is to enable all those who come into frequent contact with children and young people to develop awareness of, and the ability to act on, concerns about their welfare and safety.

Learning Outcomes:
•    What to do if they are concerned about the safety and welfare of a child: Disclosure
•    Their role and responsibility in relation to child protection
•    Categories of abuse, signs, symptoms and referral processes
•    Introduction to the legal framework

Target Group:
For staff who have occasional contact with children, young people and/or parents/carers.

This course is for you if you have no access to safeguarding training within your own organisation.  This is not a refresher course.

Dates:       
4th May 2016,  9th June 2016,  7th July 2016,

5th September 2016, 8th November 2016,  6th December 2016

10th January 2017,  15th March 2017.

Venue:
The Grosvenor Centre, 38 Grosvenor Road, Forest Gate, London, E7 8JA.

Time:
Half-Day from 9.30 – 12.30.

Trainer:   
Perdeep Gill