Local Authorities

“Andy trained us and he is passionate, caring, humorous and straight to the point. He clearly leads his field in knowledge and expertise”

CYP First have been working across the country for many years with professionals from multi-disciplinary fields, delivering training in CSE, County Lines, Criminal Exploitation of Children, Missing children, Return Home interviews, Modern day dangers, E-Safety, Trafficking, grooming for radicalisation and extremism, child exploitation including gangs & criminality and many other bespoke courses.

Our belief is that as much as we can educate professionals on how to spot and respond to Exploitation and Modern Day Slavery, as professionals, need to focus our efforts by understanding the need for “Disruption” tools and concentrate our attentions on the abusers, this is why we are so proud to say we were one of the first companies that started to deliver “Disruption” training.

We continue to work with local councils on responding to CSE and Child Exploitation (County Lines) by delivering training for their licensed vehicles, hotels, bars and other venues within their Night Time Economy.

Courses for Local Authority workers

  • 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”.

  • 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 

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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. 

  • 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.

“Usually these webinars only tell me what I already knew, but this one had me glued to the screen.”

  • How we can best work together to disrupt exploitation?

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.  

  • 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?

  • We might know about Exploitation, but do we really know how to work with victims and the behavior 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. 

  • 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

  • To sensitively explore this abusive practice but also acknowledging our own feelings and cultural factors for victims and their families. 

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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

  • Aimed at the wider frontline partnership, this is a fast past, one-stop awareness raising on all things Exploitation. Shocking but humorous in equal measure. 

    Following this session, professionals report a massive increase in recognition of victims and intelligence sharing by the wider workforce, who previously have not spotted exploitation or even considered it to be their business. Staff are now connecting the dots and realising that we all have a part to play in the response to exploitation and slavery. 

  • TIME FRAME: 2-3 HOURS

    What is Exploitation & Modern Slavery

    Why is this session relevant to your role? 

    Local reporting procedures 

    How to disrupt exploitation

    Intelligence and information sharing

    Moral, legal and social responsibility 

    Are you the missing piece of the jigsaw?

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

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