SSCB Safeguarding Training Courses July, August and September
Safeguarding training explained
Level 1 Training – Level 1 mandatory training needs to be undertaken within three months of starting your employment and repeated every three years if your job role includes contact with children and/or their parents or carers.
Level 2 Multi-agency Training – Level 2 multi-agency training is mandatory for safeguarding leads and designed for any job role that includes or potentially includes contributing to assessing, planning, intervening, and evaluating the needs of a child or contributing to assessing, planning, intervening, and evaluating parenting capacity where there are safeguarding concerns. Level 2 multi-agency training needs to be undertaken within 12 months of starting your employment and updated every two years with a Level 3 role specific training course. Pre-requisite Level 1.
Level 3 Multi-agency Training – These courses offer greater insight on specific topics and can provide the refresher or update required every two years.
Multi-agency courses available
**NEW** FREE Learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Review – Child I
Following on from the recent publication of Child Safeguarding Practice Review (CSPR) for Child I, the Board are holding this learning event for all practitioners.
Monday 23 September 2024 9.30 am – 12.00 pm
FREE Lunch & Learn – Family Help Pilot
To provide an overview to partners of the Family Help Pilot taking in Staffordshire Children’s Services. An opportunity to ask questions about what this looks like in practice, how these fit in with the national guidance, and what partners can do to support this pilot. Finally, we aim to provide an overview of what next steps look like for Family Help model in Staffordshire Children’s Services.
Tuesday 2 July 2024 12:30 – 1:30 pm
FREE Lunch & Learn – Sexual Assault Referral Centre
Children & Young People that we can support. Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) referral pathways. Strategy Meetings. Difference between Child Protection and Child Sexual Assault medicals. Forensic timeframes. Learning from incidents. About the examinations. Onward referrals and care
Monday 16 September 2024 12.30 – 1.30 pm
FREE – Early Help Assessment Training
The programme is aimed to increase your understanding of Early Help. To be able to complete the Outcome Star collaboratively with families/Parents/carers. To use the Outcome Star for effective gathering of Family information to inform the Early Help Assessment. To understand the Journey of Change. Using the Outcome Star to support Action Planning. To revisit the Threshold framework
Wednesday 17 July 2024 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
FREE – Supporting GCP2 Assessments
Supports recognising low-level neglect and gives you the knowledge to understand the importance of doing a GCP2 at the earliest opportunity. Do you know how to contribute to a GCP2 assessments, even if you don’t work with families and children in the home?
Thursday 8 August 2024 9.30 – 11.30 am
Tuesday 20 September 2024 9.30 – 11.30 am
FREE – Unintentional Injuries among Children under 5
To increase awareness and knowledge of unintentional injuries among children under 5 and to raise awareness of deliberate injuries that may occur. Your role in the prevention and reduction of injuries. Note: this session focus’ on childhood accidents.
Tuesday 11 June 2024 9.30 am – 1 pm
Level 1 Core slides for Sept 24 – Aug 25 *£80 Special Offer*(£100 to purchase in October 2024)
Aimed at the Designated Safeguarding Lead to deliver level 1 training in house. Core slides can be purchased on an annual basis and will provide you with the opportunity to deliver a locally designed product that contains the most up to date information, including thresholds and referral pathways, as well as information about key priority areas for the Board. The core slides include trainer notes.
Available now to pre order ready for you to deliver in Sept 2024.
Level 2 Working Together to Safeguard Children Multi Agency Training
New members of the workforce who work predominantly with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and who could potentially contribute to assessing, planning, intervening, and evaluating the needs of a child and parenting capacity where there are safeguarding concerns.
Saturday 13 July 2024 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Monday 9 September 2024 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Thursday 19 September 2024 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Tuesday 24 September 2024 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Level 3 Learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Review Multi Agency Training
Update for Level 2 certificate
To have the time to stop & reflect, to understand the history of reviews and their links to the legislation, to consider the learning from national/ local reviews, to become familiar with the CSPR processes and what this means for you! To apply learning to current caseload and future practice particularly in relation to analysis & decision making.
Saturday 14 September 2024 9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Monday 30 September 2024 9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Level 3 Children and Domestic Abuse Multi-Agency Training
Update for Level 2 certificate
A one-day workshop aimed to increase the understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on children. Create a greater understanding of the need for multi-agency working to manage safer outcomes.
Friday 20 September 2024 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Level 3 E Safety and Dark Net Multi-agency Training
Update for Level 2 certificate
Have an awareness of the risk factors associated with internet use, mobile phones and the Darknet. Understand the types of technologies which are available to harm and abuse children. Have an increased understanding of technological communications. Definition of the Dark Web, Deep Web and Open Web. How the Dark Web can be accessed – What is TOR. The reasons why a young person might want to access the Dark Web. What to do if a young person has accessed the Dark Web. Have an awareness of behaviours used by perpetrators on the internet to target, groom and abuse. Have an awareness of safety and educational strategies aimed at minimising risk. Understand how children and young people can protect themselves. Understand when to make a referral and to whom.
Tuesday 2 July 2024 9.30 am – 12.30 pm
Level 3 Child Sexual Abuse Multi-agency Training
Dates coming soon.
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Training costs – Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Board
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