ZChild Sexual Exploitation multi-agency training for practitioners - Reviewed 2020

Date & Time:

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (09:30-16:30 - COURSE CANCELLED) - Please login to join the waiting list

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Venue:

Sutton Civic Offices, G3, St Nicholas Way, Sutton, SM1 1EA

Detail:

Target Group / Level

This course is targeted to practitioners or volunteers in direct contact with children who contribute to assessments and multi-agency meetings including social workers, family support workers, adolescent and YOT workers and others that undertake direct work with young people at risk of exploitation.   

Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominately working with children) or above (including strategic leads) as set out in the Safeguarding Competency framework in London Safeguarding Child Procedures. NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals. 

Note: Participants are expected to have attended the CSE awareness course or already have knowledge about issues that put children and young people at risk of sexual exploitation.

Course Overview/ Aim

This course aims to provide participants with the knowledge required to undertake or contribute to risk assessments, strategy meetings, Multi-Agency Child Sexual Exploitation (MASE) Panel and multi-agency planning to safeguard children and young people from sexual exploitation. It also covers statutory requirements, pan-London child protection procedures and the LSCB CSE practice toolkit.

Learning Outcomes

By attending this course, participants will have:

  • Improved skills to undertake risk assessments and be able to play an effective part in multi-agency strategy meetings and safety planning processes
  • Improved their knowledge about what makes a child vulnerable to sexual exploitation and the methods to groom a child for sexual exploitation
  • Shared best practice in the prevention and disruption of sexual exploitation and better understand their role in sharing intelligence with MASE partners
  • Developed skills to communicate with children and young people who are at risk or have experienced CSE
  • Improved their knowledge about statutory, pan-London and local procedures and how to apply these in practice
  • Be better able to work in partnership with other agencies and understand how the MASE operational panel works and how to prepare information for the panel. 

Booking:

Booking has now closed for this event.

Further Information:

Trainer:

Suzy Mullally

Venue Details:

Sutton Civic Offices, G3, St Nicholas Way, Sutton, SM1 1EA

(020 8770 5000)