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Safety Planning: A Tool to Support Safeguarding against Extra-familial harm
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Perfect for any youth workers, social care workers, criminal justice workers or those supporting vulnerable populations, this face to face workshop format enables an in-depth look at the concept of safety planning and applicable tools to use for engagement in the conversations and assessments of places of safety and places of harm.
This session is OCN Level 3 accredited and can be delivered face to face or online.
Develop an understanding of what defines ‘safety’ in this context, its categorisation and how it can be assessed, applying a realism lens.
Develop an understanding of contextual safeguarding, and why it is an imperative framework when the risk is outside of the home.
Develop an understanding of why safety plans are essential when supporting young people at risk of extra-familial harm.
Develop an understanding of applying both a relationship-based and a trauma-informed lens to supporting victims of extra-familial harm in the context of safety planning.
Develop different tools and methodologies that can be applied to create a quality safety plan, including body mapping, place and space mapping, active and passive plans, case studies and activities.
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Formatted into bitesized chunks to increase accessibility for those who work in Health or Education settings
Contextual Safeguarding: Policy and Practice
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Practitioners - you are everywhere that matters when it comes to understanding the contexts in which young people experience harm outside the home. Utilising the model of Contextual Safeguarding, designed by Dr Firmin and the University of Bedfordshire. Using the tools and methods of contextual safeguarding assessments will support your ability to safeguard young people. This session explores the concept and how this can be applied.
This training comes in various formats, from a three hour webinar, to a full day’s OCN Level 3 accredited face to face workshop.
Understand the concept and framework of contextual safeguarding
Understand why you should be at the forefront of contextual safeguarding
Understanding the basics of supporting young people facing extra-familial harm using this approach
How to ensure your concerns are raised appropriately within child protection settings
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Formatted into bite-sized chunks to increase accessibility for those who work in Health or Education settings
Young People, Violence and Trauma
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Develop a greater understanding of not simply what trauma is and how that trauma can impact someone, but how those impacts can play out in real-time and how to support a young person exposed. Expanding on our knowledge of the bio-psycho-social impacts to learn how we can apply what is often called trauma-informed practice into our daily work within complex and unsafe contexts young people experience.
After completion of this training, delegates should have:
Have an understanding of various typologies of trauma, from developmental to intergenerational, systemic and incident-based trauma
Have an understanding of how that trauma can impact as children and present in adolescence, both biological and behavioural.
Have an understanding of how such trauma can play out in communities, including in relation to serious youth violence
Have an understanding of how to practice trauma-informed and trauma-responsively
Extra-Familial Harm Safeguarding Best Practice
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This training provides information on the concepts, theory and risks associated with extra-familial harms - including various forms of exploitation, trafficking and online harms. The purpose of this training is to expand the professional understanding of the many guises in which extra-familial harms present, so that we may better understanding and assess needs. From peer on peer violence, to harmful sexual behaviour, CSA/CSE, organised crime and trafficking, CSAM online, pro-ana and pro-mia sites.
This one workshop can be delivered online or face to face.
Understand the various typologies of extra-familial harms in the community and online.
Understand how to support young people experiencing extra-familial harms
A basic understanding of legislation regarding safeguarding those at risk of or experiencing these harms
Safety First, Desistance Later: Working with Young People who Harm
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All too often, practitioners find themselves balancing their work on both ensuring safety for a young person, and the risk that young person may pose to others. This webinar draws on Sean’s experiences working with young people who’s lives are at risk, but that they also pose significant risk to others.
This one day workshop can be delivered online or face to face.
Have an understanding of why young people engage in violence
Have an understanding of the neurological effects of violence
Navigating the balance of risk management and safety interventions
Understanding the Youth Justice System
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Case working staff of all kinds, will at times, likely be working with a young person who comes into contact with the criminal justice system. That being said, the criminal justice system is large and complex, and does not come with a welcome pack on how to navigate it. From Arrest, to Charge, to Court, to various sentences and Orders, we need to better understand the thresholds, meanings and processes behind them to better support and advocate for young people we care for.
After completion of this training, delegates should:
Understand Policing processes, including arrest and charge, interviews and outcomes.
Understanding Court processes, pre-sentencing reports and various Orders.
Be able to think critically about practice and how to challenge conduct, and escalate, where necessary.
Engaging Young People and their Families in Effective Plans
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Moving away from viewpoints and language such as “non-engagement” and “non-compliance/adherence” to the plan, towards critically assessing why such plans don’t always work for the young person or their family.
A plan centred on and co-designed by those the plan impacts is key to its effectiveness.
Learning Objectives:
Understanding how to develop and facilitate co-produced plans within child and transitional safeguarding.
Understanding how well-informed and considered plans can support agency and not take it away.
Considering how plans can be formulated that consider and aim to meet everyone’s needs, not simply “obligations.”
Disrupting Exploitation: A Multi-Agency Effort
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This innovative part training. part workshopping session considers how everyone within the safeguarding arena plays a part in the outcomes of a child being harmed through exploitation. This session explores the tools, roles and responsibilities across multi-agency settings and what can be utilised to disrupt harm.
Learning Objectives:
A greater understanding of tools, roles, responsibilities, and key legislation that various partners can utilise to better disrupt harms.
How to effectively work together as a multi-agency setting within complex safeguarding, effectively creative problem solving.
Understanding how to appropriately professionally challenge if responsiveness and proportionality are not adhered to.
Holistic Interventions, Models and Direct Work Resources
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This purely practice focussed workshop considers various models, direct work resources and tools that can be best utilised to support children and young people.
Learning Objectives:
Learn about a variety of models and resources that can be utilised to increase effectiveness of engagement.
Learn how to apply those models in practice.
Working with Adolescents in Health Settings
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Having spent many years working within Major Trauma Centres, Local Emergency Departments and Paediatric Hospitals, members of our team have much experience in supporting professionals within health with their understanding of the seemingly complex nature of adolescents who become patients. Patient care, language used and department policies all need to be adapted to consider the adolescent brain, developmental trauma and the needs and behaviours of our young patients. This training is geared towards anyone who works within Health, whether patient-facing or in a leadership role
We have multiple options for this training to suit the needs of Health colleagues, whether a series of one our webinars to a three day face to face, and everything in between.
Gain insight into adolescent brain development and the link to so-called ‘risk-taking and challenging behaviours’
Feel more confident communicating with adolescent patients and eliciting good social histories to enable better care
Have a better understanding of wider social support systems in place (statutory services, community services and specialist advocacy) available for young people
Have a toolbox of de-escalation techniques to support young patients in crisis
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This consultancy package is designed for leaders who wish to explore how their service’s spaces could be more psychologically safe, such as custody suites, youth centres, education establishments and health settings.
For more information, see our Consultancy page.
Criminal Exploitation: County Lines and Beyond
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This training provides information on the concepts, theory and risks associated with criminal exploitation. Beginning, but certainly not ending with county lines, this training was designed to expand the professional understanding of the many forms of criminal exploitation, much of which has seen much less focus than county lines. Car key burglaries, deets/squares, shoplifting, cuckooing and debt bondage to name but a few.
This half day workshop can be delivered online or face to face.
Have a basic understanding of criminal exploitation and its many forms
Understand how to support young people experiencing criminal exploitation
A basic understanding of legislation regarding harm, exploitation and trafficking
Neurodiversity and Exploitation
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Much of what is “known” about neurodivergence is generally incorrect and often harmful. This training is designed to develop a greater understanding of neurodivergence, the myths surrounding it and the appropriate language to use within practice. We then will delve into its complex and multi-faceted interconnection with exploitation, the impacts it can have on young people and explore the reasoning behind how and why neurodiverse youth are disproportionately victims of exploitation. Drawing upon these insights, we integrate best practices to formulate principles for effectively supporting and safeguarding neurodiverse young people who are at risk of exploitation or have experienced harm.
This full day workshop can be delivered online or face to face.
Have a better understanding of neurodiversity and its implications within the context of exploitation.
Be able to understand and identify key factors contributing to vulnerability and complexity of the safeguarding process.
Be able to apply an asset-based approach to address neurodiversity and exploitation, utilising prevention and disruption techniques, and integrating practical tools and organisational frameworks.
Understanding Children’s Services
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This training provides information on the frameworks and processes by which England’s Children’s Services operate and how a social worker assesses needs. This training is designed for any 3rd sector or partner organisation who engages with Children’s Services and multi-agency meetings. It is designed to upskill practitioners so that they may better understand various processes and legislation and advocate for young people within safeguarding arenas.
This half day workshop can be delivered online or face to face.
Understand the various pieces of legislation and frameworks that Children’s Services use to assess concerns.
Understand the various meetings and plans led by Children’s Services and what they entail.
Understand how to advocate for children, young people and their families in contact with Children’s Services.
Understand how to professionally challenge and escalate where necessary.
