Safeguarding children from abuse and neglect -advanced (formally L3)
Course overview:
Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. This two day course enables delegates to develop knowledge and skills in a multi-agency working to safeguard children and promote their welfare. It provides an opportunity for colleagues from different agencies to learn together and explore professional dilemmas.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by Safeguarding and Child Abuse
- Define categories, signs and indicators of abuse and neglect
- Identifying potential obstacles for recognizing child abuse
- Describe the sex offending behaviour and the grooming process
- Identify relevant legislation, key terms and processes
- Describe inter agency roles and responsibilities
- Identify protocols for information sharing
- Child focused safer working practices
- Reviewing professional blind spots
- Understanding individual, organisational and agency roles and responsibilities
- Discuss learning from Serious Case Reviews
- Describe multi agency working, referral process, investigations and recording
- Clarify how to respond to child protection concerns
- Identifying what is normal child development
- Describe the impact of trilogy of risk for children
Courses, training and consultancy
Adults Training
Children Training
Mental Health Training
Health & Safety Training and consultancy
Safeguarding Training
First aid training
Consultancy
“We completed our L3 Safeguarding Children’s training with First Step Training and it was very insightful and interactive. The trainer was very knowledgeable and skilled at getting staff to think how they could safeguarding children and how to implement best practice in our service. The First Step team made sure they talked to us and understood our service and what we did so they could make sure the training fitted our business, and used our policies to educate staff on understanding how important these were.”
Residential Children’s Service Manager
