Safeguarding Children: Harm Outside The Home - Level 4
Every young person navigates risks beyond their home environment. This interactive two-day course helps professionals understand, identify and respond to Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) within a Contextual Safeguarding framework.
Practitioners will explore how extra-familial risks manifest—such as exploitation, peer influence, online harm and community violence—and how to intervene effectively. The training challenges participants to “walk alongside” children and young people, seeing the world through their perspective to better appreciate both risk and resilience.
Learners will also develop their understanding of key legislation, guidance and professional responsibilities, ensuring their response to HOTH is informed, coordinated and effective across multi-agency systems.
Upon successful completion of this training, each participant will be awarded a Level 4 OCN accreditation, provided by OCNCredit4Learning
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Understand Contextual Safeguarding in practice and process.
Recognise roles and responsibilities within HOTH contexts.
Record and report information and intelligence effectively.
Analyse signs and indicators of HOTH and barriers to disclosure.
Apply key legislation, policy and guidance to real-world contexts.
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This training is suitable for any teams working with children, such as Children's Services, Alternate Provision Staff, Youth Service, and third sector support services.
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This training can be delivered either face to face or online.