training courses and workshops
Training
Our training courses and workshops are designed to enhance understanding, improve safeguarding provision, and boost confidence amongst staff, volunteers, and the children, young people, and adults you work with in your organisation. The ultimate goal is to create a safe and supportive environment for all individuals involved.
We aim to make these sessions accessible, interactive, and captivating, creating a safe learning space. Feedback from our sessions shows engagement and enjoyment. Our experienced trainers create a supportive environment, allowing participants to share their thoughts and experiences. By incorporating real-life scenarios and practical examples, we leave participants empowered to handle safeguarding issues effectively. Our delivery style benefits participants and ensures a positive learning experience.
Our current training packages include:
- Introduction to Safeguarding (Level 1)
- Safeguarding for Practitioners (Level 2)
- Safeguarding Practice for DSL’s & Managers (Level 3)
- Advanced Safeguarding for DSL’s & Managers (Level 4)
- Strategic Safeguarding Workshop for Managers & Leaders
- Safeguarding Governance – Designed for Boards/Trustee’s/Governors
- Safer Recruitment
- Professional Boundaries
- Prevent
- Trauma Informed Practice
- Quality Safeguarding Case Recording
- Psychological Safety
We are always looking to develop new courses so if you have a specific subject matter you would like us to deliver training on, please do get in touch.
Introduction to Safeguarding (Level 1)
Course Content:
- What is safeguarding?
- Identify the types of abuse
- Recognise the signs and indicators of abuse
- Discuss how to respond appropriately to a safeguarding concern
- Be aware of the process of reporting safeguarding concerns to within your organisation
- Explore best practice in recording safeguarding concerns
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone who are working with children, young people or adults as part or paid or voluntary role. You do not need any previous safeguarding knowledge as this course provides a firm foundation.
Safeguarding for Practitioners (Level 2)
Course Content:
- Safeguarding – the legal framework and statutory duty
- An introduction to trauma-informed practice
- Understanding practitioner roles and responsibilities
- How do we create consistency – exploration of values
- Recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns
- Barriers to reporting safeguarding concerns
- Exploring recording best practice
- Case studies and reflective practice
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for practitioners who work directly with children, young people or adults and require a more in-depth knowledge of safeguarding to effectively undertake their role. Having previously completed a level one course is advantageous.
Safeguarding Practice for DSL's & Managers (Level 3)
Course Content:
- Exploration of safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance relevant to your sector/geographical location
- Trauma-informed leadership
- Understanding roles and responsibilities of key safeguarding stakeholders
- The process of managing a safeguarding concern
- Local Authority referral and escalation processes
- Case studies and reflection practice
Who is the course for?
The course is designed for Designated Safeguarding Lead/officers and their deputies to understand their operational duties, or any practitioner or manager that would benefit from a more in-depth knowledge of safeguarding.
Advanced Safeguarding for DSL’s & Managers (Level 4)
Course Content:
- Exploration of safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance relevant to your sector/geographical location
- Trauma-informed leadership
- Understanding roles and responsibilities of key safeguarding stakeholders
- The process of managing a safeguarding concern
- Local Authority referral and escalation processes
- Case studies and reflection practice
Who is the course for?
The course is designed for Designated Safeguarding Lead/officers and their deputies to understand their operational duties, or any practitioner or manager that would benefit from a more in-depth knowledge of safeguarding.
Strategic Safeguarding Workshop for Managers & Leaders
Workshop Content
This is a developmental workshop for those in leadership and management positions to work together to develop their collective understanding of their organisational safeguarding.
The organisation will provide a brief, supported by the consultant/facilitator, describing what they would like to achieve or topics they would like to explore in their workshop time.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is designed to bring together leaders and managers from across an organisation to focus on a specific area of safeguarding or topic to develop knowledge, understanding and strive towards a common goal.
Strategic Safeguarding Governance for Boards/Trustee/Governors
Course Content:
- Safeguarding – The legal framework and statutory duty
- Charity Commission expectations
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Key stakeholder relationships
- Providing strategic oversight
- Managing Risk
- Case Studies and reflective practice
Who is the course for?
The course is designed for those in governance roles or aspire to those roles.
Safer Recruitment
Course Content
- Key principles of safer recruitment
- Preparing to recruit
- Selecting the right people
- Completing appropriate checks
- Managing risk in recruitment
- Responding to allegations of abuse and low-level concerns
Who is this course for?
Any practitioner or manager who is part of the recruitment process for staff and/or volunteers.
Professional Boundaries
Course Content:
- What are professional boundaries?
- The zone of helpfulness
- What are the benefits of upholding professional boundaries
- What is the impact of not maintaining professional boundaries
- What supports our understanding of professional boundaries
- Case studies and reflective practice
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for all, to enable practitioners to recognise why upholding professional boundaries is important, how to maintain their own professional boundaries and to enable them to support their colleagues to do the same.
Prevent
Course Content:
- What is Prevent?
- The Prevent Duty – The legal framework and context
- What is radicalisation, terrorism and extremism?
- Recognising and managing risk
- What should you do if you’re concerned – the Channel Process
- Case studies and reflective practice
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for all, to raise awareness of the issue around prevent.
Trauma Informed Practice
Course Content
- What is trauma?
- The principles of trauma informed practice
- Understanding and identifying trauma responses in practice
- What are the benefits of being trauma-informed?
- Examples of trauma informed practice and leadership
- Case studies and reflective practice
Who is this course for?
Thie course is designed for all, to raise awareness and recognition of trauma within ourselves and others to provide services that recognise and acknowledge trauma and how we can effectively support people.
Quality Safeguarding Case Recording
Course Content
- Principles of case recording
- The importance of case recording
- Case studies to devise a recording
- Quality assurance and peer review
Who is the course for?
Any practitioner or manager who is responsible for recording safeguarding concerns within your organisation.
Psychological Safety
Course Content:
- Principles of psychological safety
- Four stages of psychological safety
- Why is psychological safety important in the workplace?
- How to build psychological safety in your team and organisation
- Case discussions
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for all, to raise awareness of psychological safety in the workplace and how to create a psychologically safe culture.
“Sally has a diverse range of skills and knowledge built form frontline work in a variety of settings. She is able to draw upon this to share practical, real-life examples to help educate those she works with. I look forward to working with her in the future at every possible opportunity. An outstanding safeguarding professional.”
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