Residential & Foster Care
CYP First are proud to work across the country with dedicated residential teams and foster agencies who understand the need for quality, professional and informative training.
Bespoke to your company policy and to the individual learning styles of your workforce, our courses will provide essential information on what constitutes best practice for responding to concerns and making referrals to social care.
Courses for residential and foster care workers
A united team can be the difference between a home that simply operates and one that truly thrives.
As well as the courses below, we offer team/management courses that help you build the solid foundations of a united workforce. Take a look here.
“THE MOST IMPACTFUL SESSION OUR STAFF HAVE EVER HAD”
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Real, impactive and relevant Safeguarding training that will stay with your delegates for a long time. The session will be bespoke to all of your own policies and reporting procedures.
Described by many companies as “the most impactful session their staff have ever had, in fact, the best Safeguarding session they believe exists”.
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TIME FRAME: Full Day
Delivered with real life examples by an Outstanding Manager who worked in the field of Safeguarding for 27 years, exploring barriers to safeguarding and practical examples of intervention.
Principles of Safeguarding
Working Together To Safeguard Children
Understanding Abuse and Neglect Significant harm and threshold for intervention
Physical Abuse
Neglect
Emotional Abuse
Sexual Abuse
Financial Abuse
Use of Procedures (Bespoke to your company)
Recording of Information
Dealing with Disclosures
Consultation
Whistleblowing
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A current, impactive, thought-provoking session exploring modern day concerns relating to exploitation. The reality, the impact, the outcome. Buckle up for a practical and very real, eye-opening training.
We are regularly sent feedback from managers and company owners regarding the impact this session has had. Staff have flown through their Ofsted visit with regard to understanding and acting upon the grooming and exploitation of children.
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TIME FRAME: Full Day
The Grooming Process for Criminal Exploitation and vulnerabilities
Early Intervention with recognition of ACEs
Social Media / Music (Drill) and its influence (Desensitisation)
Power & Control Stockholm, Trauma & Attachment
Language / Knowledge / Positionality
How to recognise and respond to signs of grooming.
Legislation including Palermo Protocol, NRM & Trafficking Disruption techniques and engaging partners in disruption (utilising home office & NWG guidance)
The use of Injunctions, DDTRO's and the NCLCC & other legislation
Working with a child
Use of the Victims Code
Managing risks
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Current and real, sharing practitioners real-life experience of working with victims of CSE; we don’t just look at what CSE is; we look at the impact on young people, children and their families.
Delivered by professionals who have worked in the field of CSE many years, the session will be shocking and inspiring in equal measure.
After attending this session, Delegates have described how their thought process about victims has been challenged and changed.
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TIME FRAME: FULL DAY
Terminology and victim blaming practice being addressed, bringing about better safeguarding outcomes for any children who are groomed for child sexual exploitation.
To understand sexual exploitation – male and female
CSE Definition & how to apply it
National cases and current landscape of CSE
To understand the grooming process
Warning signs (Indicators)
Models of CSE
Working with vulnerable children abused by CSE
To understand connected issues, Trauma, Stockholm Connected issues – Social Media, Pornography, Internet
Disruption options
Victims code
Utilising case studies & serious case reviews
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We might know about Exploitation, but do we really know how to work with victims and the behaviour that they may present to us. What can we do as professionals?
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TIME FRAME: FULL DAY
Young person’s Past & Present
ACE's
Contextual Safeguarding Model
Behaviour
Crisis
The role of family or lack of family
Practitioners Role
How to engage and respond
Disruption
Managing risk
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Residential staff, foster carers and teachers working with young people can, at times, be completely unaware of what they are legally entitled to when their child goes missing.
The session will ensure all are given the competence and confidence to protect their children at a most vulnerable moment.
Staff have stated that this course has helped them understand the necessity of action, determination and the power to never give up. This course builds confidence in workers when dealing with a particularly scary situation.
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TIME FRAME: Full Day
To understand why young people runaway
What makes young people vulnerable
Risks posed when missing
Push & Pull factors
Before, During & After missing episode
Legislation, Guidance and the missing process
Prevention Interviews (Safe & Wells)
Sharing information
How to report to the Police (role play)
Understanding Police Risk categories
Philomena Protocol
Trauma & Trauma Bonding
Trafficking
Independent Return Home Interviews
What to do when child returns
Including role play, we actually call the police and report a child missing. We hear their response and we challenge effectively.
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Behaviour is just data, communication and information: are we responding to children’s behaviour in the correct way? Is our behaviour fuelling the fire?
Comprehensively understand the adversities a child may have faced, acknowledging past trauma, attachment and previous experiences.
We ask staff teams to try the techniques for 12 weeks and let us know how they get on. Always fabulous feedback once the staff work together and give a consistent approach to behaviour.
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TIME FRAME: FULL DAY
To discuss & define behaviour.
Explore Adverse Childhood
Experiences (ACEs) and identify how these will impact on service users.
Differentiate & Identify different types of behaviour.
What is age appropriate behaviour & how do we respond to challenging behaviour?
To explore what consistent practice the home will adopt when dealing with challenging behaviour, so this is uniformed.
To understand the key principles of attachment.
To gain an insight into bonding and attachment and the effects on a child when this is interrupted.
How is a healthy attachment facilitated?
Understand the various ways that neglect & abuse negatively influence attachment.
The anger cycle
Role Play
How to deal with anger
Developing boundaries
Managing Challenging Behaviour techniques
Threat assessment & recognition
The 10 principles of Behaviour management
Behaviour is just a child’s way of telling you something is wrong.
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Using immersive, practical techniques, we look at where self harm manifests from. How to actually BE with the child and understand the reasons behind self harm, whilst supporting the child.
This course brings about confidence in workers that they are doing the right thing when faced with a personally challenging subject.
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TIME FRAME: Full Day
What is Self-Harm & Definition
Dispelling the myths
What might cause a child to self-harm
Signs & Symptoms
Explore ways staff might be able to help children control self-harming feelings (what to say)
Who to share information with
Raising awareness
Triggers
Reflecting on our own feelings
Facilitating positive work Strategies that could be used
“HOW CAN WE BEST WORK TOGETHER TO DISRUPT EXPLOITATION?”
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Aimed at raising your staff awareness of what Disruption options are available to disrupt the grooming of children in their care, this session will be based mainly on using the home office disruption tool plus others, however we are aware that there are further powers available beyond this document.
A lot of professionals are simply not aware of the legislation available to them; service leaders regularly feedback on the difference this course has made to staff practice and outcomes.
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TIME FRAME: BRIEFING OR FULL DAY
What is Disruption
How is this relevant to your role?
Exploration of different legislation and orders that can be used.
How to use professional challenge to ensure disruption tactics are used
Equip staff and carers with the knowledge of legislation to protect children in their care
Practical, interactive facilitated group work, utilising case studies to explore disruption tactics in more depth.
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We need to start living in the present and not in the isolated time when child protection laws were produced.
Frequently, professionals concentrate on what is happening at home and within the family, focussing too heavily on behaviours, when they should be looking at all of the external impacts that are often not taken notice of.
All professionals need to be detectives and need to dig deeper to gain their best understanding; this session is about seeing clearly the child (and family’s) whole situation.
We can’t just focus on the home, the child and their behaviour. Peers, school, neighbourhood and the internet: we need a broader contextual understanding when working to protect children today.
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TIME FRAME: Briefing or Full Day
What is Contextual Safeguarding?
Identify all of the extra-familial environments that abuse that can occur
Explore multiple risks of harm and how to understand them
How childhood experiences effect the way children respond to environments outside of the home
How do we work as practitioners/Carer within this framework?
How do we disrupt harmful extra familial contexts?
How do our assessments and interventions reflect this?
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We might know about Exploitation, but do we really know how to work with victims and the behaviour that they may present to us?
What can we do as professionals?
Helping professionals to understand what is happening for children beneath the surface. Cutting out victim blaming and supporting professionals to understand the behaviour and why it is happening.
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TIME FRAME: FULL DAY
Young person’s Past & Present
ACE's
Contextual Safeguarding Model
Behaviour
Crisis
The role of family or lack of family
Practitioners Role
How to engage and respond
Disruption
Managing risk
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During this session, we sensitively explore this abusive practice but also acknowledge our own feelings and cultural factors for victims and their families.
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TIME FRAME: Half Day or Full day
To explore the different types of FGM
To discuss thoughts and feelings towards FGM
To look at terminology
How to recognise FGM
How to report FGM
Legal implications
How to support young people if they disclose
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Especially with the new guidance released in 2023, having an understanding of the requirements and importance of safeguarding through transition into adulthood is vital.
Really understanding the voice and rights of the young person and how this should be considered when working with this age group.
What are their rights? What should we be doing? How can we make a difference and not allow children to fall through the cracks of adulthood.
Professionals will not only gain an understanding of the regulations and guidance, but also an in-depth awareness of the need to walk the child’s journey through and with them past turning 18.
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TIME FRAME: FULL DAY
To have a detailed understanding of the issues a child in transition to adulthood faces
Explore how exploitation looks for young people as they reach 18 and beyond
To understand adolescence and how to respond to this
What legal issues do we need to consider
What disruption is available
To unpick SAR and look how exploitation, semi-supported and accommodation featured in their life and not always responded to appropriately.
How do we develop effective partnerships and information sharing agreements.
How to work with young people who have been exploited within this age range.
How is Contextual Safeguarding relevant?
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Do we really know and understand the threat the virtual world places on our children? What are they exposed to? What harm can this do? Recognising in our young people and in ourselves, the slow drip drip effect the internet can have on us: are our children desensitised to online harms and are we as professionals?
Fully updated every week to incorporate the vast changing threats and internet landscape. Also including AI, Deepfaking, Metaverse and other online harms.
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Are we all aware what our children are viewing or have access to? Apps, websites, chat rooms, gaming, AI, Deepfakes, Metaverse & Chatbots.
Grooming via online
Do we understand the language and terminology our children use?
How does adolescence contribute to online dangers?
What can we do about it?
How do we work with it?
Do we recognise our own desensitisation / vicarious trauma?
Are we, as Professionals, desensitised to online harms?
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Professionals need to understand the importance of good reporting and recording and where this can lead legally if this is not done correctly.
Are we recording ethically and in a non victim-blaming way, fully incorporating the voice of the child, also exploring our own biases?
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TIME FRAME: FULL DAY
The importance of effective recording
Recording with integrity
Stereotypes, Irrelevance and Hearsay
Fact, Opinion and Judgement
Victim Blaming
Writing reports Writing with the reader in mind
Managing disclosures
Dealing with disclosures
Confidentiality
Retention of records
Data Protection
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1 in 4 females will unfortunately suffer some form of sexual assault or abuse in their lifetime.
In this new course, we will examine Violence against Women and Girls and the long-term impacts on victims - physically, mentally, socially and financially.
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TIME FRAME: Full day or briefing
Exploration of data and key facts of what we currently know
What is VAWG in relation to the current landscape
Prevention
Supporting Victims
Strategy & Reality
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This course will give you an introduction to the Prevent duty, the forms of extremism and terrorism threatening the UK and develop your knowledge around the risks of radicalisation and your supportive role.
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TIME FRAME: FULL DAY
Why they need to know about extremism and radicalisation
The key definitions relating to radicalisation and extremism
Understanding the key risks to young people at present.
People at risk
How radicalisation can occur
The warning signs of radicalisation
The Prevent duty
How to respond
CYP First: Substance Training
These courses can be booked individually or as a HARM REDUCTION TRAINING package over 1 - 2 days, which covers all four topics:
Naloxone
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Basic Drug Awareness
Overdose Awareness
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What is naloxone? What is it used for? Learn to recognise opioid overdose and administer naloxone safely and effectively.
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TIME FRAME: Half day
When should I use Naloxone?
What to do if I suspect someone has overdosed?
What will happen after I have used Naloxone?
Recovery position/practice
How to use Naloxone/demo
Q&A
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Understand New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), their effects, and associated risks. The course promotes informed, compassionate care and enhances workers’ confidence in managing NPS-related situations effectively.
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TIME FRAME: Full Day
What are NPS?
Legislation
Drug related deaths UK
Drugs chart
Supply routes
Case studies
Synthetic opioids
Illicit benzodiazepines
Party drugs
Amphetamines
Ketamine bladder Syndrome
Nitrous oxide
Harm min/reduction
Chem sex
Recovery position
Q&A
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Gain essential knowledge and understanding of drug use and its impacts. We will explore why children use drugs, types and classifications of substances, patterns of use, and common stereotypes. The course covers practical topics such as needle exchange, overdose awareness, and available support services, helping staff respond confidently and compassionately to children affected by substance use.
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TIME FRAME: 3/4 Day Training
Aims and objectives
Why people use drugs
Name and classify substances/group work
Categories of drugs
Stereotypes
What types of drug use are there?
Cycle of problematic drug use
Drugs box
Self prescribing
What types of support are there?
Needle exchange
Study of injecting risks of sharing DVD
Overdose awareness DVD
Summary and Q&A
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This overdose awareness training equips care workers with the skills to recognise, prevent, and respond effectively to drug overdoses. The course promotes confidence, compassion, and safety in supporting children at risk.
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TIME FRAME: Half Day Training
Definition of an overdose
What causes overdose?
Signs of overdose breakout groups
Signs of overdose
Going over DVD
What to do in overdose
What not to do in overdoses
Naloxone use and demo
Q&A
