Advanced level courses

This two-day course equips managers with the skills needed to provide safeguarding supervision for staff including how to:

• manage allegations made against staff
• use safer recruitment processes
• define safeguarding supervision and its core functions
• apply models of critical reflection to safeguarding practice
• describe the role of the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
• use the managing allegations against staff protocol
• identify the key features of the safer recruitment process which help to deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people and adopt policies and practices to support this
• explain when a DBS and/or vetting and barring check is required

This course is recommended for those in a managerial role, such as head teachers, working with children, young people or/and their families.

This full day course will develop practitioners’ safeguarding skills in core competences proven to impact on positive outcomes for a child. Delegates will learn how to:

• identify barriers to engagement and explore effective solutions
• challenge families (if appropriate professionals) in order to ensure children are better safeguarded
• identify communication and engagement issues in safeguarding children
• work with colleagues, other professionals and families and explore effective solutions
• define and identify disguised compliance and strategies
• ensure the daily lived experience of the child is always at the front of any safeguarding intervention
• discuss difficult and sensitive subjects with confidence

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This full day course increases delegates’ confidence in engaging and working with young people affected by child sexual exploitation. By the end of the course participants will have been shown how to:

• identify the potential barriers to engaging with young people affected by CSE
• use different methods and tools to engage with young people
• summarise how trauma and brain development can impact on a young person’s behaviour and affect their coping mechanisms
• explain the referral processes for CSE and the services that are available at different thresholds
• consider the additional issues faced by boys, young people from a BME community or those with a disability

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This full day course enables managers to assess and improve their organisation’s contribution to tackling child sexual exploitation by:

• analysing links to wider issues such as licencing, crime, e-safety and sexual health
• debating the challenges and opportunities in tackling CSE
• assessing their organisation’s role in preventing, identifying and responding to CSE
• reviewing their organisation’s relevant policies and procedures in line with local protocols
• using examples of current research to inform practice

This course is recommended for managers/headteachers who work with children, young people or their families.

This full day course encourages better detection and protection of children and adults at risk of honour-based violence (HBV), forced marriage or female genital mutilation (FGM) by showing participants how to:

• take appropriate action when a disclosure is made
• define HBV, forced marriage and FGM
• summarise the legal context
• identify children and adults at risk of HBV, forced marriage and FGM
• describe the barriers to seeking help and service provision
• taking appropriate action when a disclosure is made regarding fear of or actual HBV or forced marriage or FGM
• discussing local and national case examples of good practice

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This full day course gives practitioners a better understand of the impact of neglect on children. It shows how to:

• identify the different levels of intervention in relation to neglect and appropriate ways to address it
• use the Horwath Daily Lived Experience Model to ensure the child is at the centre of any work undertaken to address neglect
• explain issues that may lead to neglectful parenting and appropriate ways to address these
• analyse what works in relation to achieving the best outcomes in situations of neglect
• explore the latest neuroscience research on the impact of child neglect
• identify and use lessons from local and national serious case reviews to inform best practice
• work more effectively to address child neglect by using theories of resilience, attachment and disguised compliance

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This full day course is designed to increase practitioners’ knowledge of safeguarding issues in relation to new, online technology by learning how to:

• identify where online safety becomes a safeguarding issue
• Producing (or improving) their own organisation’s online safety policies and procedures
• evaluating the opportunities and risks of the digital world
• stating where and how to report abuses
• explaining how to source publications and resources to use and distribute, including practical materials that can be used with children

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This full day course provides knowledge and skills in working with children and families affected by sexual abuse by showing practitioners how to:

• state key legislation in relation to child sexual abuse
• recognise warning signs of sexual abuse
• discuss the impact of sexual abuse on a child
• describe issues for non-abusing parents and carers
• explore appropriate responses to sexually harmful behaviour by use of assessment/intervention
• challenge the stereotypes relating to sex offenders

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This half day course enables staff from statutory and voluntary agencies to understand the impact of parental mental illness on a child by:

• describing the potential impact of mental illness on parenting ability and the effect on children of different ages
• assessing the risk that the parental mental illness poses to keeping the child in focus
• defining mental health within the children’s social care structure
• working effectively with families where parents have mental illness, and with partnering agencies
• describing the relevant local authority safeguarding procedures

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This half day course increases practitioners’ knowledge and skills in safeguarding the children of parents with a learning disability. It explains how to:

• be able to effectively assess and manage the risk to children when parental learning disability is a factor
• describe the practitioner’s role and responsibilities and develop their engagement skills
• explain the value of collaborative working where learning disability is a factor for parents
• have increased knowledge of local resources that are available to assist professionals working with parents who have a learning disability

Recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

This half day course enables practitioners to:

• better safeguard children where parental substance misuse is an issue
• assess when substance misuse becomes a child protection issue
• describe the effect substance misuse has on parenting capacity and the short and long-term effects on children
• list the effects different substances have in pregnancy
• look at relevant safeguarding procedures
• undertake risk assessments and engage effectively with substance misusing parents

Recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.