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Popular Courses

  • 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 

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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