About this event

• For Designated Safeguarding Leads, designed to refresh and update knowledge on the Early Help and Child Protection Procedures.

• To understand DSL roles and responsibilities

• To understand how and when to make a referral to Family Front Door (FFD)

• To be confident when to share/not share and/or seek advice about information sharing

• To be confident in undertaking an Early Help Assessment

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

About this event

This introductory three-hour session raises awareness of young people’s mental health. It aims to enhance knowledge around:

• Some of the common mental health issues affecting young people, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis

• Skills to work more effectively with young people living with mental health issues

• Ways to support young people with a mental health issue and relate to their experiences

Cost: This course is heavily subsidized by the Safeguarding SLA. Price per delegate is £50 + VAT (£60 inc VAT)

Cost for Early Years Settings & Childminders - £32 + VAt (£38.40 inc VAT)

About this event

• For Designated Safeguarding Leads, designed to refresh and update knowledge on the Early Help and Child Protection Procedures.

• To understand DSL roles and responsibilities

• To understand how and when to make a referral to Family Front Door (FFD)

• To be confident when to share/not share and/or seek advice about information sharing

• To be confident in undertaking an Early Help Assessment

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

About this event

Aims and Objectives

• To enable Senior Leaders to understand the role of the Designated Senior Lead for Mental Health (DSL-MH) and have a clearer understanding of the current context surrounding mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and adults working in UK schools.

• To enable Senior Leaders to effectively assess their school’s current mental health and wellbeing provision and to develop a clear plan for improvement.

• To enable and empower senior leaders (DSL-MH) to prioritise and develop the mental health and wellbeing of their students and staff through the development of a practical, sustainable and cost-effective long-term Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

Lunch is provided on both days - please ensure any dietary needs are noted at the point of booking

Cost: this course is heavily subsidised due to purchase the Education Safeguarding Support SLA. Price is £140 + VAT (£168 inc VAT)

About this event

This training is a two-hour session for Designated Safeguarding Leads and Safeguarding Governors.

The learning outcomes are DSLs will have a greater understanding of both the PREVENT strategy and recognizing the early identification of children and young children who are at risk of being radicalized. Prevent is part of the UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy ‘CONTEST’, aimed at preventing people being involved in or supporting terrorism.

Aims and Objectives:
• To understand the aims of Prevent;
• Consider who might be vulnerable;
• See why some people can influence and manipulate others to commit crimes;
• Recognise when a vulnerable individual may need help;
• To be clear about what support is available and who you should contact if you have a concern.

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

About this event

Aims and Objectives:
• The Youth MHFA two-day course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider. This aims to provide you with
• An in depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing
• Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
* Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress
• Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgmental listening
• Knowledge to help a young person recover their health by guiding them to further support – whether that’s through self-help sites, their place of learning, the NHS, or a mix – engaging with parents, carers and external agencies where appropriate
• The ability to support a young person with a long-term mental health issue or disability to thrive
• Tools to look after your own mental wellbeing

Lunch is provided on both days - please ensure any dietary needs are noted at the point of booking

Cost: this course is heavily subsidised due to purchase the Education Safeguarding Support SLA. Price is £140 + VAT (£168 inc VAT)

Cost for Early Years Settings & Childminders - £100 + VAT(£120 inc VAT)

About this event

• Increase awareness of the insidious nature of domestic abuse and the invisibility of coercion and control.

• Highlight the prevalence and statistics of domestic abuse

• Increase confidence to be professionally curious and to ask about domestic abuse in a way that makes it easier and safer for people to disclose.

• Increase understanding of victims’ responses to domestic abuse including why they may stay in an abusive relationship

• Explore the links between pregnancy and domestic abuse and the impacts on children both pre-birth and at various stages of development

• Consider the professional responsibility for positively impacting the resilience of children

• Explore the additional impacts on people from marginalised groups including adults with support and care needs, older people and LGBT and minority communities

• Highlight the need for a multi-agency approach and roles of agencies in relation to risk identification and management

• Increase knowledge of how to refer to relevant services when appropriate, including referral to local and national specialist services for victims and perpetrators.

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

Cost: Early Years settings - £32 + VAT

About this event

• For Designated Safeguarding Leads, Headteachers, Deputy Headteachers and all others in education who are involved in staff selection


This course covers the following areas;
- Safer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding
- Prevalence of abuse and profile of abusers
- How abusers operate within organisations
- Features of a safer recruitment process
- Planning a safer recruitment process
- Making the right decisions: interview and selection
- Setting acceptable standards of behaviour
- Maintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance

Aims:
• To identify the key features of staff recruitment that help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people.
• To be able to produce policies and practices that minimise opportunities for abuse or ensure its prompt reporting.
• To begin to review their own organisation’s places and practices to make them safe.

Cost: £80.00 + VAT per person

Lunch is provided - we will contact you about how this is ordered / managed in line with current guidance

About this event

Aims and Objectives:
• The one-day course qualifies you as a Youth MHFA Champion. The Youth Mental Health Champion course aims to equip delegates with:
• An understanding of common mental health issues and how they can affect young people
• The ability to spot signs of mental ill health in young people and guide them to a place of support


Lunch is provided - please ensure any dietary needs are noted at the point of booking

Cost: this course is heavily subsidised due to purchase the Education Safeguarding Support SLA. Price is £80 + VAT (£96 inc VAT)

About this event

This training is a two-hour session for Designated Safeguarding Leads and Safeguarding Governors.

The learning outcomes are DSLs will have a greater understanding of both the PREVENT strategy and recognizing the early identification of children and young children who are at risk of being radicalized. Prevent is part of the UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy ‘CONTEST’, aimed at preventing people being involved in or supporting terrorism.

Aims and Objectives:
• To understand the aims of Prevent;
• Consider who might be vulnerable;
• See why some people can influence and manipulate others to commit crimes;
• Recognise when a vulnerable individual may need help;
• To be clear about what support is available and who you should contact if you have a concern.

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA