Upcoming Training

Aims: Working Together supports professionals from a range of agencies to build upon their current safeguarding practice, enabling them to be clear about what is required of them individually and how they need to work together to keep children safe. It builds on the concept of collaborative working, allowing professionals from all disciplines and agencies to support each other to fulfil their responsibilities to improve the lives of children and young people.

Audience: This course provides the multi-agency aspect of training required by Designated Safeguarding Leads and Deputy Leads. It is also beneficial to school Safeguarding Governors. (Please get in touch if you require DSL role specific training - this is a separate course.)

• Tuesday 12th September (TEAMS)
• Thursday 21st September (Priory House, Shefford)
• Wednesday 27th September (TEAMS)
• Friday 6th October (TEAMS)
• Monday 9th October (TEAMS)
• Wednesday 18th October (Rufus Centre, Flitwick)
• Tuesday 31st October (TEAMS)
• Thursday 9th November (TEAMS)
• Friday 17th November (TEAMS)
• Monday 20th November (Priory House, Shefford)
• Wednesday 29th November (TEAMS)
• Thursday 7th December (TEAMS)
• Tuesday 12th December (Priory House, Shefford)

Aims: This half day workshop will help practitioners from all agencies explore practical strategies for working with families who present particular challenges. You will explore the concept of ‘disguised compliance’ and consider your approach when working with uncertainty. 

Audience: Experienced frontline practitioners and managers from all disciplines. 

• Tuesday 26th September (TEAMS)
• Thursday 8th February(TEAMS)

Aim: This half day course will give participants greater confidence and skills to effectively challenge professionals and practice within their agency and others, in order to safeguard children and young people. 

Audience: Practitioners and managers in voluntary, independent and statutory agencies who work predominantly with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and who could contribute to assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of a child and parenting capacity where there are safeguarding concerns. 

• Tuesday 26th September (TEAMS)
• Thursday 8th February (TEAMS)

Aim: To develop your understanding and skills as a supervisor in a safeguarding environment. You will build upon existing safeguarding supervision skills to ensures child centred practice. 

Audience: Team leaders, line managers and management from all disciplines whose role includes supervision of staff in relation to their safeguarding practice. Supervisee roles could include family workers, social workers, health visitors, safeguarding leads or deputy. The attendee MUST have responsibility for oversight of safeguarding practice within their organisation and be providing supervision to staff in relation to their own safeguarding practices. This supervision could be in the form of 1-1 meetings, group supervision, or regular safeguarding practice reviews/meetings, which are specific to the staff member’s safeguarding practices. 

• Tuesday 3rd & Wednesday 4th October (TEAMS)
• Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th March (TEAMS)

Aim: To increase knowledge of safeguarding children roles and responsibilities in relation to childhood Neglect.

Audience: Open to all practitioners working with children, young people and families in Bedfordshire.

• Thursday 5th October (TEAMS)

Aim: This course is for practitioners looking to develop their knowledge and practice in safeguarding children with disabilities.  

Audience: This workshop is available to all frontline workers

• Wednesday 11th October (TEAMS)
• Friday 1st March 2024 (TEAMS)

Aim: To raise awareness of Domestic Abuse

Audience: All

• Tuesday 10th October (TEAMS)
• Tuesday 16th January 2024 (TEAMS)

Aim: This course aims to promote better outcomes for children and young people by exploring the effects and impact of living with domestic abuse and enabling practitioners to develop understanding, awareness and effective approaches for working with their experiences across diverse cultures. It is expected that attendees will already have a basic awareness of Domestic Abuse. We recommend Domestic Abuse Awareness (costs apply) or Awareness of Domestic Violence & Abuse (free eLearning). 

Audience: Frontline practitioners and managers working or volunteering with children and young people in Bedfordshire. 

• Monday 16th October (TEAMS)
• Monday 26th February 2024 (TEAMS)

Aim: To recognise and respond to Domestic Abuse

Audience: All

• Wednesday 11th October (TEAMS)
• Wednesday 17th January 2024 (TEAMS)

Aim: This training course will support practitioners to develop their understanding of contextual safeguarding and its application in practice. 

Audience: Frontline practitioners and managers working or volunteering with children and young people in Bedfordshire. 

• Monday 20th October (Priory House, Shefford)
• Tuesday 6th February 2024 (Priory House, Shefford)

Aim: This half-day course is for practitioners looking to expand their knowledge and practice in hearing and recording voice of the child/ young person.  

Audience: This half day workshop is available to all frontline workers who wish to enhance their observations of and communication with children and young people so that their 'voice' is reflected in records, reports and care planning. The workshop will include considerations for those working with pre/ non-verbal children. 

• Tuesday 7th November (TEAMS)
• Wednesday 13th March 2024 (TEAMS)

Aim: This half day workshop will develop your understanding of the functions and processes of child protection conferences, the roles and responsibilities of those who attend them, and how to contribute effectively. 

Audience: Practitioners and managers in voluntary, independent and statutory agencies who work predominantly with children, young people and/or their parents/carers who may be part of the child protection system. 

• Thursday 1st February 2024

Aim: This half day workshop will provide you with an opportunity to reflect on multi-agency safeguarding meetings such as core groups, CIN (child in need) meetings and TAC (team around the child) / TAF (team around the family) meetings, to clarify what makes them effective and to extend knowledge and skills in working within these meetings. 

Audience: Members of staff from all disciplines who have experience of being a member of a multi-agency safeguarding meetings.

• Thursday 1st February 2024

Aim: This seminar is essential to anyone working with survivors of sexual trauma; regardless of how old they were when the abuse occurred and how much time has elapsed since. The seminar will offer an understanding of the impact of sexual trauma, the behaviour of offenders and how to safeguard people from them. 

Audience: Frontline Practitioners and Managers from organisations across Bedfordshire.

• Thursday 29th February 2024 (Priory House, Shefford)