SaferNow

Targeted training. Practical tools. Actionable steps.

Safeguarding Training for Risk Outside the Home

The way we safeguard young people needs to keep up with the ever-evolving world we live in.
That’s why our training is based on the merger between current practice and cutting edge academic theory. Over 7,500 cross-sector service managers and practitioners have benefitted from our training. Read their feedback.

Our staff are practitioners with frontline experience.
We know the parameters you have to operate in, so we work within these to create actionable and practical steps. Our training empowers you to focus on safeguarding the children and families you support. If you need to make internal changes, we can support you with an external review to gain buy-in from stakeholders.

Risk looks different in different places.
We take the time to understand your needs and craft a bespoke training package, specific to your unique context. By identifying opportunity and development areas, we create a strategically aligned support model. Discover our Wraparound Package for training that’s uniquely tailored for you.

Most of all, we want to help keep young people safe.
Contact us for more information, or to discuss your training needs.

Core Training

Build practitioner competence and confidence through targeted sessions on a variety of practice topics, all enabling participants to “go and do” diretly after our input.

6 in 2026 Package

We’re now offering a flexible way to secure six training and consultancy support days in 2026, to spend down as needed. Consider this as a semi-flexible ‘retainer.’

Consultancy and Supervision

Navigate complex safeguarding scenarios with expert guidance, and strategic planning. Gain support with an external review.

Keynotes and Conference Delivery

Consider us for your keynote or conference needs. Keynotes and conference slots are always free-of-charge. Need a thought-provoking speaker, or a call-to-action input? Consider SaferNow.

Risk Outside The Home: Response Package

This package brings together five of our essential core training sessions that explore key elements of working effectively with Risk Outside the Home.

“I think that the training has been world class Sean. Very engaging although harrowing and a balance of real life knowledge and experience together with academic and professional informative direction.”
- Residential Practitioner
“So many professionals, practitioners and general people in society need to sit and be part of this session. So many revelatory moments happened for me.”
- Delivery Manager, Violence Reduction Partnership
“Really impressed with depth and breadth of Sean's knowledge, which is incredible!”
- Senior Police Officer
“We commissioned SaferNow to produce bespoke risk assessment frameworks and guidance for staff - we cannot praise their work highly enough!”
- National Head of Services in Violence Intervention
“Sean was amazing at the delivery of the session. . You could tell he was knowledgeable and passionate about what he was delivering.”
- Education Professional
“100% of participants felt they developed learning that they could take forward into practice.”
- Safety Planning as a Tool to Safeguard Against Extra-Familial Harm. Delivered to EmpowerU, Exploitation and Missing Team, Birmingham Children’s Trust
“Very informative and relevant to our role. Lots of common sense, which we sometimes lose in crisis moments.”
- Team Manager, Children’s Services
“Eye-opening and fascinating”
- Military Health Care Professional, West Midlands
“Delivered excellently with really good information. Left plenty of room for reflection and questions. Brilliant training!”
- Social Worker, Birmingham Children’s Trust
“SaferNow took the time to understand the nuances of the work and produced exactly what we needed to an excellent standard.”
- National Head of Service, Youth Violence Intervention Services.
“Well-paced, informative and knowledgeable trainer. Would like to take part in more training .”
- Education Staff Member, Solihull
“Useful for ALL practitioners delivering direct work with adolescents at risk”
- Family Support Worker
“Very much enjoyed learning about the language used which has made me feel more empowered.”
- Youth Worker, Cardiff
“Sean was very knowledge and personable, for my learning style and to ensure the individuals who did not want to speak in a large group could contribute, more table/group activities would have been useful.”
- Children’s Social Care Professional
“It was interactive and informative and Sean has a great way of delivering the course by breaking it down so that we can understand through experiences.”
- Housing Staff Member
“Was a great session that applied to people who are new to the field and to the more experienced.”
- Youth Worker, Sussex.
“Very knowledgeable trainer, who had loads of examples that can be used with very young children all the way to older children.”
- Early Years Practitioner, Telford.
“Really good! I loved the balance between theory and case studies.”
- Intervention Youth Practitioner.