Threshold Guidance Training 24/25

Target Group

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.

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. 

Aims

The aims of this session are:

• To achieve consistency in the application of thresholds for referral and assessments. This will be achieved by examining the levels of needs, indicators of concern and pathways for support for children and families in Sutton. 

• To review the criteria for undertaking an early help assessment and the type and level of early help services to be provided; 
• To review the criteria, including the level of need, for making decisions about whether the threshold for statutory interventions has been met and what type of services should be provided; 
• To review the concept of contextual safeguarding and risk factors relating to extra-familial harm;
• To review the adolescent referral and assessment pathways; 
• To review the children with disabilities thresholds and pathways.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, participants will have: 

• An improved knowledge about how the changes to the multi-agency threshold guidance relate to their professional role;  
• An increased knowledge about how to interpret indicators of concerns and apply needs levels consistently; 
• An increased knowledge about the new assessment framework triangles (school, neighbourhoods, and peer assessments);
• An improved knowledge about referral and assessment pathways for support in Sutton.