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

Cost: If you do no have the Safeguarding SLA is £85+ VAT

Trainer Ollie Welsby

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

Cost: this course is heavily subsidised due to purchase the Education Safeguarding Support SLA. Price with SLA is £145 + VAT. Price without SLA Is £290 + VAT

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

About this event

To understand what peer mentoring is
How to implement a Peer Mentoring programme in your school
To consider the impact of Peer Mentoring

Cost: FREE to those schools who have purchased the safeguarding SLA;
£55 per delegate for those schools without the SLA.

About this event

Aims and objectives

• To enable Senior Leaders to understand the role of the Designated Senior Mental Health Lead (DSM-HL) 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 (DSM-HL) 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.

The DfE Mental Health Grant is now available for Schools to apply for and covers any course that starts up to and including 31 March 2023 . This means that the full price of the course (£520 + VAT) MUST be charged by WCF and the grant claimed by the school will cover this cost and more.

Please ensure you vist the DfE Website to follow the process to claim for the Mental Health Grant

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

Cost: If you do no have the Safeguarding SLA is £85+ VAT

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

Trainer Ollie Welsby

About this event

A specific 3-hour course for NEW Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) and Deputy DSL’s to support them in their understand of the role and responsibilities.

Delegates on completion of this 3-hour course would be expected to progress onto the Full day Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) training course

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA. If you have not purchased the SLA then this course will be charged at £40 + VAT

Trainer: Ollie Welsby

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 £55 + VAT

Cost without the Safeguarding SLA is £110 + 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

Cost: If you do no have the Safeguarding SLA is £85+ VAT

Trainer Ollie Welsby

About this event

The course is aimed at: Experienced FSW, New FSW and Other roles for example roles include TA/HoY/Pastoral role, who would like to be a FSW in their school/setting

Aims and objectives of the day
• To understand roles and responsibilities of the family support worker
• To understand legislation and safeguarding
• To understand what challenges families face
• To understand contextualised safeguarding
• To understand Early Help and levels of need
• How to add timescales and ending support.

Cost: This course is heavily subsidised to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA
• For schools with the Safeguarding SLA - £85 + VAT
• For schools WHO HAVE NOT purchased the Safeguarding SLA - £170 + VAT

Trainers: Cheryl Green

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 to schools without the SLA £55 + VAT

Cost: Early Years settings - £22 + VAT