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The Government has defined the term 'safeguarding children' as 'The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully. Safeguarding Awareness Level 1 is suitable for those who have infrequent direct contact with children and young people, and may become aware of possible abuse or neglect.

Please note that this course is fully funded for governin ...

Practitioners or agencies that have contact with parents either directly, or by working with their children, play an important role in identifying and supporting the reduction of parental conflict.

The Reducing Parental Conflict Programme has been designed to upskill practitioners in supporting parents to reduce conflict within their relationship, whether they are together or separated. In turn, they can then improve outcomes for their children. Whether new to your role, with less experience or a very experienced practitioner, regularly encountering parental conflict situations, learners wi ...

When someone is suspected of being violent towards their family, the onus often falls on the victim to keep the children safe. The Engaging Perpetrators Level 2 training turns the attention back to the direct cause of the problem, by helping frontline child protection professionals to engage with perpetrators, to make brief, safety-focussed interventions and motivate them towards seeking more in-depth help.

The training is designed for frontline professionals who have already attended the domestic abuse awareness training and have general knowledge on best practice of responding to victim ...

Achieving for Children is implementing Signs of Safety from 19 June 2017. The Signs of Safety model promotes strong relationship building and enables practitioners across different disciplines to work in partnership with children and families to maintain a focus on building safety within the family.

The heart of the Signs of Safety process is an assessment and case planning format that is meaningful for professionals as well as the parents, children and young people being assessed. The Signs of Safety format offers a simple yet rigorous assessment format that the practitioner can use to e ...

Research, experience and learning from serious case reviews illustrates the importance of strong and effective recruitment and selection procedures that help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children, or who are otherwise unsuited to working with them. If you recruit staff and/or volunteers into the children and young people’s workforce, you should be trained in safer recruitment practices.

Organisations that provide services to children must incorporate these measures into their processes to remain safe, making safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children an integral ...

This training is an awareness level course and will equip front line practitioners, managers and specialist staff to be alert to the issues of domestic abuse, be aware of our local responses and where to go to for help.

The course is suitable for all those working within RBWM and who have day to day contact with members of the general public. The training is suitable for those working with both adults and children at all levels.

According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) year ending March 2020, an estimated 7.3% of women (1.6 million) and 3.6% of men (757,000) experience ...

‘It is as though the confluence of the search for certainty in detecting and eradicating abuse and neglect, combined with the belief (and management oversight) that following rules will further reduce the risk of missing a case, has replaced the space of reflection on professional judgement which actually protect children and young people’ (Munro Review of Child, 2010).

Supervision is an essential element of Social Care; effective supervision is linked to improved outcomes for service users. This course is designed for frontline staff working with children, young people and families. It wil ...

Professional curiosity is described as thinking beyond a single source of information and considering, holistically, the circumstances of the child and family. It requires asking questions, verifying and checking information, as well as not making assumptions or accepting things at face value.

“While the presence of a potential indicator of neglect does not necessarily mean that a child is being neglected, it will always warrant further investigation. Practitioners must be ‘professionally curious’ to determine further information in the interests of the child. It is essential that professio ...

‘Between 2014 and 2016 there was a 49 per cent increase in crimes connected with child sexual exploitation across London, from 618 in 2014 to 922 in 2016. In addition, there was a 42 per cent increase in the number of children who police believe are at risk of CSE, from 1,116 in 2014 to 1,582 in 2016’ (Metropolitan Police, 2017).

Recent years have seen an increasing professional awareness of the risks posed to children of sexual exploitation. High profile public inquiries such as Rotherham (Baroness Jaye, 2014), research (e.g. CEOPS 2011) and serious case reviews such as those in Bristol, R ...

‘Irrespective of whether they co-operate, it is worth remembering that most parents involved in the child welfare system are involuntary participants in a process they may resent‘
Effective practice to protect children living in ‘highly resistant’ families’ (Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services 2010).

Highly resistant families are a subpopulation that have not received much specific attention in research as they should. Most research reliance is from serious case reviews – these comprise the best recent UK evidence- the problem is that Serious Case Re ...