Aim This course aims to enhance practitioners’ knowledge, skills and understanding of how race, culture and/or faith and belief systems can impact on our safeguarding children practice. The course will also focus on the roles and responsibilities of practitioners, the legal framework and how to identify risk factors. Objectives By the end of the course…

This course will focus on the experiences of young women and girls who are gang associated and gang-involved, and/or who are vulnerable to gang association and gang involvement. The course will include sexual abuse, rape, grooming and harassment, signs and indicators, the notion of normalisation of abusive behaviour. The course will support practitioners to respond…

The course will consider legislation and practice guidance to develop confidence to work in partnership with other agencies and professionals to support children and their families involved in child protection issues. Learning Outcomes Understand the assessment process for providing early help and intervention, for example through locally agreed common and shared assessment processes such as…

There are 75,000 children and young people in Newham – more than a third of our residents are under 18 – and we want each of them to have the best possible start in life. We have a strong universal service in Newham – our schools, children’s centres and health services – but some of…

The course will inform and ensure that practitioners, volunteers and managers understand safer recruitment procedures, identify warning signs that may indicate harmful behaviour and manage allegations against practitioners in accordance with local and national procedures. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course the learners should be able to: Gain an understanding of the risk…

This course will raise awareness of the continuum of sexual behaviours’ displayed by children and young people and explore appropriate responses. It will give participants an opportunity to develop their understanding and knowledge to identify when children and young people’s behaviours move beyond what could be considered ‘normal’ and become potentially sexually harmful or pose…

This course will look at the impact domestic violence has on women and children and to discuss the different forms of abusive behaviour and how this affects a child’s health and well being. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course participants will: A good understanding the nature of relationships which are characterised by violence…

Parts 1 & 2 Child Sexual Exploitation This one day training session enables participants to develop a greater awareness of CSE, as well as equipping professionals with tools to develop effective responses. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, participants will: •    Have an improved understanding of CSE •    Reflect on different values and…

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 aim of this course is to raise participants’ awareness of the impact upon dependent children of parental mental illness and to develop their knowledge of good practice in this area of work. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course participants should be able to: • Have an increased awareness of the range of…