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Child Protection Awareness Course 24/25

Date & Time:

Tuesday 16 April 2024 (09:30 - 12:30)

Virtual,

This training is targeted at:

Professionals in direct contact with children who undertake or contribute to risk assessments and multi-agency meetings including social workers, family support workers, health professionals, schools, police and others who work with children at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation who work for the London Borough of Sutton.

Competency level:

Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominantly working with children) or above (including strategic leads), and NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals.

The aims of this session are:

To gain a better understanding about their duties under Working together to Safeguard Children 2023, Information Sharing Advice for Safeguarding Practitioners (2018), London Child Protection Procedures, and messages from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPRs)
To focus on awareness raising in respect of safeguarding responsibilities across the multi-agency partnership, including contributing to strategy meetings, reporting to and attending child protection conferences.

By attending this course, participants will have:

An increased knowledge to identify indicators of risks of harm to respond in accordance with current legislation, statutory guidance and procedures; including specific issues for disabled children and other related groups of children;
An ability to apply LSCP threshold criteria at the different levels of intervention and within their professional context;
An improved knowledge to understand the reasons for sharing information about children at risk of actual or likely significant harm and the consequences of not doing so based on learning from CPSRs;
An increased knowledge around the importance of taking into account the voice of the child in all aspects of safeguarding processes;
An improved knowledge around the importance of partnership working to safeguard children, including requirements around referrals, different types of assessments, contribution to strategy meetings, child protection conferences and other multi-agency meetings;
An increased knowledge around the use of key messages from SCRs to safeguard children and how to access learning from these in the future;
An ability to recognise the importance of the voice of the child in all aspects of safeguarding practice and record keeping.