Safeguarding Awareness Week - 18-22 November 2024

Sheffield Children’s Safeguarding Partnership presents a programme of events for Safeguarding Awareness week 2024.  Grab your place whilst it is available.   

Guest Speakers/Sessions 

Please note, these sessions will be delivered on Zoom or Teams.  Please check the link you are sent for each session.  Thank-you 

Introduction to Restorative Practice 

Monday 18th November 10.00am-12.00pm 

Restorative practice is a way of working WITH people not doing things TO them. 

After this workshop you will be able to: 

• Recognise how a restorative mindset supports more impactful communication 

• Improve engagement with assessments and develop more effective interventions. It works well with signs-of-safety 

• Practice using restorative language to restore mutual understanding when there are disagreements and conflicts 

This workshop is suitable for everyone, managers, practitioners and support staff in all services. Whether you want to improve relationships within your workplace, or work more effectively with children, adults and families, you will find this workshop helpful. 

Safeguarding and Online Safety – Sue Finnigan, Learn Sheffield 

Monday 18th November 1.30pm–3.30pm 

How do children spend their time online? 

This workshop will provide an update of developments in safeguarding children and young people online.  It includes current trends in social media environments, identifies risk-related behaviour and offers feedback from children in Sheffield.  You will learn about resources available to practitioners, how exploitation occurs online and how we can engage young people meaningfully in preventative education on these topics. 

Contextual Safeguarding and Children who go missing 

Tuesday 19th November 9.30am–11.30am 

Contextual Safeguarding is a term used to describe assessment and intervention frameworks aimed at safeguarding children and young people from risk outside of the family and family home. This contextual safeguarding and ‘missing’ for frontline practitioners training session aims to explore this theory and how it can work in practice. 

The training will explore: 

• What is Contextual Safeguarding (CSG)? 

• Framework for exploring CSG Risks with young people 

• What are Contextual Safeguarding Risks? 

• Holistic CSG planning – A multi service response 

• Grooming 

• Missing young people 

• Engaging young people to discuss specific CSG Risks   

Safeguarding and Licensing Partnerships 

Tuesday 19th November 12.30pm–1.30pm 

In this workshop we will discuss the risks to children and young people when they are part of the business community, whether they are living in pubs and shops, or going out to socialise, work, perform, learn, or travel, we will focus on the presenting risks and why we must all work in partnership to keep children safe in the community. 

If you work with families who live at licensed premises, or with children who work, perform, engage in sport and leisure activities, go to music/arts events or who travel using taxis, hotels, visit takeaways, shops, pubs, clubs, gambling arcades, this workshop is for you! 

Come and join us to hear about how we share information to identify and tackle hotspot locations - and how you can contribute to making Sheffield a safer community for children and vulnerable people. 

Learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews 

 Tuesday 19th November 2.00pm–3.30pm 

‘Sometimes a child suffers a serious injury or death as a result of abuse or neglect. Understanding not only what happened but also why it happened can help improve our response in the future. Appreciating the impact that organisations and agencies had on the child’s life, and on the lives of their family members, and whether or not different approaches or those actions could have resulted in a different outcome, is essential.  It is in this way that we can make good judgements about what might need to change at a local or national level.’ (Working Together 2023) 

In this workshop delivered with the manager of the Sheffield Safeguarding Partnership, we will explore some of the learning that has emerged from local and national reviews and how future reviews will impact on practice on Sheffield. 

 11th Parental Mental Health Workshop 

Wednesday 20th November 9.30am-12.30pm 

Venue: Sheffield Wednesday Football Club 

This multi-agency workshop is relevant to all services coming into contact with children, young people, adults, and families.  #thinkfamily 

The workshop will provide an opportunity: 

• to discuss the common themes identified, using the case studies from recent local Domestic Homicide Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Joint Case Reviews 

• to gain a greater understanding of Intergenerational Trauma, how this impacts on the families we work with and ways to help support the family and break the cycle 

• to discuss Dilemmas – what are our dilemmas in relation to Safeguarding children, young people, adults and what should we do? 

The workshop will also enable participants to: 

Gain knowledge of each other’s thresholds for intervention, way of working and information sharing. 

Improve communication and multi-agency working between all services and service areas. 

 Working Together: How are we doing it in Sheffield? 

Wednesday 20th November 2.00pm-3.30pm 

If you work with children and their families and want to understand better work around multi-agency safeguarding this is the workshop for you. 

You will learn about the changes that the Working Together 2023 statutory guidance has introduced for multi-agency safeguarding working and how those changes have been introduced into Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership over the last year to improve services for children and their families.   

You will learn what you can expect from the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership in the future and how you can be a part of on-going improvement. 

Transitions into adulthood 

Thursday 21st November 10.00am-12.00pm 

This workshop is organised by Sheffield Adult Safeguarding Partnership, and presented by Steve Baguley, Education and Transitions Lead at the National Working Group. The NWG work to inform, educate and prevent child exploitation and abuse throughout the UK.

 Hidden Harm 

Thursday 21st November 1.30pm-3.30pm 

Seldom does drug/alcohol misuse, domestic abuse or mental ill health live in isolation within a household.  This workshop will consider how they interact and the impact this has on the family. 

The Workshop will support you in: 

• looking beyond the presenting problem 

• being professionally curious and trauma informed 

• supporting the family in engaging in behaviour change

Professional Curiosity 

Friday 22nd November 1.30pm-3.30pm 

The need for greater Professional Curiosity is a frequent feature in Serious Case Reviews and Safeguarding Adult Reviews. This two-hour workshop will look at what is meant by professional curiosity, why it can be overlooked, and how by practitioners and their managers can develop the skills to consistently incorporate it into practice with children, adults and families.