Welcome to Safeguarding Children Training
Welcome to the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership (SCSP) Training Section, providing information for all practitioners who work with children, young people and their parents or carers in Sheffield.
Please provide your details if you would like to be added to our distribution list to be notified about training as soon as it is available.
For details of all multi-agency safeguarding courses and workshops see below or click here for e-learning courses.
SCSP Multi-agency Safeguarding Children Training:
For Health Care Staff – All SCSP training and workshops meet the requirements of Level 3 training.
Please be aware that applications take a few days to process. If you are applying for training that takes place in the next 7 days then email us to ensure you get your joining instructions in time.
Safeguarding Workshops +
*NEW* SCSP Spring Term Workshops
Shorter training sessions for the children and adult workforce, advertised on a termly basis. For Health Care Staff – All Safeguarding Children workshops advertised in this flyer have been identified as meeting the requirements of Level 3 training.
- Professional Curiosity +
The need for greater Professional Curiosity is a frequent feature in Child Safeguarding Practice 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 managers can develop the skills to consistently incorporate it into their practice.
Tuesday 24 January 2023 9.30am-11.30am
- Recognising and Responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviour +
This workshop will support any practitioner to recognise what represents healthy sexual behaviour in young people and what is problematic and/or harmful.
Practitioners will gain familiarity with the Hackett Continuum Model to clarify their level of concern and will also explore how to respond and where to gain further support
Tuesday 31 January 2023 9.30am-11.30am
- Supporting children and young people affected by Domestic Abuse +
Haven works with children and young people in Sheffield who have been affected by domestic abuse, to help them make sense of what has happened, understand how their experiences impact on their lives, and then start the recovery process.
In this workshop Sarah will give an overview of how trauma affects the lives of children and young people, and you will learn strategies for supporting the children you work with.
Thursday 09 February 2023 9.30-11.30am
Wednesday 15 March 2023 1.30-3.30pm
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- The Realities and Consequences of Youth Violence +
18 year old Joshua Ribera was murdered in 2013. His mother, Alison shares Joshua’s unique life story and death to educate young people and professionals.
In this workshop she will talk about the importance of preventing young people from becoming involved in violence by developing our understanding about how trauma can impact on people, and how we support them to see a future beyond negative experiences.
Alison has talked to many children and professionals in Sheffield and always leave a strong impression. We are delighted to be able to host her workshop for a multi-agency audience.
Thursday 09 February 2023 1pm-2.30pm
- Systems of abuse: FGM, Forced Marriage & Honour Based Violence+
This two-hour course will aim to give you an enhanced understanding of the definition, prevalence, and indicators of honour-based abuse, forced marriage and female genital mutilation or FGM. We will look at the safeguarding challenges associated with these issues, and the legislation that exists in order to help you understand how to respond to a victim (or potential victim) and offer them support.
Friday 10 February 2023 9.30am -11.30am
- Safeguarding and Online Safety +
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.
Wednesday 01 March 2023 10.00am-12.00pm
- Safe and Together Partner Briefing +
These workshops will introduce the Safe and Together model, the way of working with families affected by domestic abuse that was developed to promote better outcomes for children.
Partner agencies will see a change in the approach taken by social workers and conference chairs to how they approach perpetrators and survivors of domestic abuse, and so will benefit from gaining an understanding of the principals, tools and techniques that structure the model.
The workshop will encourage practitioners and managers to reframe their language and intervention so that survivors are effectively supported, and abusers are held accountable for changing their behaviour.
Friday 03 March 2023 10.00am-11.30am
- Preventing Criminal Exploitation - The Amber Service in Sheffield +
The Amber Service in Sheffield works with children who are being criminally exploited, and children who are at risk of exploitation. Such exploitation exposes children and vulnerable adults to serious violence that can result in their lives and the lives of those who love them being changed forever.
This workshop will focus on prevention. It will explore what The Amber Service does, who they can support and how you can access support from the team for children at risk of criminal exploitation.
It will also look at what multi-agency professionals can do to protect children, and steer them away from the control of criminals and criminal networks.
Thursday 09 March 1pm – 2.30pm
- Understanding Adult Carers' and Young Carers' Needs +
Covid-19 has disproportionately affected children and adults who have caring responsibilities. We are also likely to have many more hidden carers in our city than before.
With input from a young adult carer this workshop will give you up-to-date information about the impacts that caring responsibilities can have on carers of all ages, as well as practical tips and resources for identifying and supporting them in your work.
Thursday 16th March 2023 9.30am-11.30am
- Domestic Abuse: Coercive Control +
89% of clients referred to Sheffield IDAS have experienced coercive and controlling or jealous behaviour. Coercive control is a crime, and a type of domestic abuse that although prevalent, is particularly difficult for victims and professionals to identify. In this workshop we'll take a look at the legislation around coercive and controlling behaviour, what constitutes coercive control, and strategies for evidence gathering and supporting victims in accessing help.
Tuesday 21 March 2023 9.30am-11.30am
- Recognising and Responding to Sexual Exploitation +
The Youth Service and Amber Service in Sheffield work with children who are being criminally and sexually exploited. This workshop for multi-agency professionals will focus on sexual exploitation and will consider the following:
- Specific vulnerabilities that perpetrators will exploit.
- Indicators that a child or adult is being groomed and/or sexually exploited.
- The experience of parents whose children are being groomed and/or sexually exploited.
- Sexual exploitation and the online world.
The workshop will use a case study to illustrate the experience of a young person and how services work to support and protect children in Sheffield. It will also look at what multi-agency professionals can do and how they can support a child they are concerned about.
Wednesday 22 March 10.00am – 11.30am
Working Together: Promoting Wellbeing and Keeping Children Safe +
Working Together is at the heart of good child protection and safeguarding practice.
This course, based around the statutory guidance, ‘Working together to Safeguard Children’ (2018) explores how organisations and individuals can better work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. It is primarily aimed at staff who are new to working with Children and Families in Sheffield or practitioners who have recently taken on a safeguarding remit.
The course provides staff with an understanding of their responsibilities, how to access support for children and families, the child protection process, key legislation and guidance and will look at what can be learned from practice in Sheffield. It is also an opportunity for staff to become familiar with the roles of people from other agencies who attend the training and share experiences and perspectives that will aid future working.
Staff should have completed their own agency Basic/Introduction to Safeguarding Children face to face training or the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership Online E-learning Safeguarding Children training.
Friday 27 January 2023
Wednesday 22 February 2023
Tuesday 14 March 2023
Tuesday 23 May 2023
Friday 16 June 2023
Wednesday 5 July 2023
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Conference and Core Groups +
This course will help practitioners develop a clearer understanding of the process of Initial Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups and Review Conferences. It explains local policy and practice including consideration of core values and incorporating Signs of Safety.
Staff should have completed their own agency Basic/Introduction to Safeguarding Children face to face training or the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership Online E-learning Safeguarding Children training and the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Children Working Together: Promoting Well-being and Keeping Children Safe course before applying for this course. This course is aimed primarily at staff who are new to working with children and families or who have more recently taken on a safeguarding remit and anticipate that they may become involved in child protection conferences or are likely to be members of a core group.
Wednesday 8 February 2023
Friday 24 March 2023
Wednesday 10 May 2023
Tuesday 20 June 2023
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Safeguarding Adults and Children full - new dates September 2023+
This half-day course has been developed jointly by the Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children services and it designed for practitioners in both Adult and Children’s Services. It raises awareness of safeguarding issues for both adults and children at risk and considers how practitioners in Adults and Children’s services might work more effectively together.
Increasingly practitioners across both adults and children’s services are being encouraged to develop family-based approaches to working with vulnerability and need and this course provides an excellent opportunity to begin to explore the implications of this for practice.
Staff should have completed their own agency Basic Safeguarding Children or Adults face to face training or the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership Online E-learning Safeguarding Children training, before applying for this specialist course.
Thursday 16 March 2023
Wednesday 14 June 2023
Working with Resistance and Hostility in Families +
Different families respond to professionals in different ways. From time to time all agencies will come into contact with families who deflect attention from improving outcomes for their child or adult at risk, or who are more obviously reluctant, resistant or hostile toward agency approaches.
This half day course emphasises practical approaches to support practitioners to engage families and to offer appropriate challenge where required.
Prior to attendance attendees should:
- complete a basic introduction to safeguarding course either in their own agency or the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership e-learning Safeguarding Children training.
- attend an Introduction to Safeguarding Adults course (advisable) where possible either in their own agency or via the Sheffield Adult Safeguarding Partnership here
- have attended or booked onto a Trauma Informed Practice workshop here to supplement this course. Attendance can be before or after this training.
Applications are welcome from ALL practitioners working with children and families in Sheffield. The course is free to all staff working for Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership partner agencies or other not for profit organisations.
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Thursday 25 May 2023
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Graded Care Profile 2 Training +
1 day training to gain licence for using the Graded Care Profile Tool from the NSPCC.
What is the GCP2
The GCP2 is a practical tool which supports practitioners in measuring the quality of care delivered to an individual child from an individual carer or carers over a short window of time and is designed to give a representative overview of the current level of care. The grades are based on observations and good quality evidence gathered during this window. The GCP2 reviews "what it's like" for the child not "why it's happening". It helps professionals to be clear about what the basic needs of a child are, and to what degree they are being met. This allows practitioners to make reasoned and explicit judgements in relation to neglect.
Book a place on the 1 day course here
Short briefings are available for those who want to know more about GCP2. These are suitable for practitioners and strategic managers who require an understanding of the tool but won't need to use it in practice or supervision.
Friday 24 February 2023 - 2pm – 3.30pm
Thursday 09 March 2023 - 10am-11.30am
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FASD training - prevention, diagnosis, and support for those affected by FASD +
FASD (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) is a neurological condition that affects people throughout their life. The condition is entirely preventable.
No amount of alcohol at any stage of pregnancy is safe for the baby.
A recent study in Salford gave a crude prevalence rate of 4% of the population. People with FASD often fall through the gaps in services, particularly during transitions, and are vulnerable to homelessness and entry into the criminal justice system. Identification and thorough psychological assessment can identify strengths and areas of difficulty, and with knowledge of that profile the affected person can thrive, and services can respond appropriately.
Focus on FASD – Part 1
This training will increase your awareness and understanding of FASD, identify the causes and the long-term effects of FASD and provide you with the understanding and knowledge to support your service users.
Thursday 26th January 2023 1.00pm – 3.30pm
Friday 10th March 2023 1.00pm – 3.30pm
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Following completion of the Focus on FASD course (part 1) there is a Strategies and Support FASD course (part 2) if you would like to attend.
Strategies and Support for FASD – Part 2
This training will identify strategies and support models for you to use with children, young people and adults that have FASD.
You can ONLY attend this training if you have already completed Focus on FASD Part 1.
Tuesday 28th February 2023 9.30am – 12.00pm
Tuesday 28th February 2023 1.00pm – 3.30pm
Friday 10th March 2023 9.30am – 12.00pm
Thursday 23rd March 2023 9.30am – 12.00pm
Thursday 23rd March 2023 1.00pm – 3.30pm
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Trauma Informed Practice +
A trauma-informed approach represents a new way of working across all services that promotes five principles: safety, empowerment, choice, collaboration, and trust.
This training aims to introduce those principles and encourage discussion and reflection regarding how they may be applied in practice. Sheffield is committed to becoming a trauma-informed city, so this training is relevant to all agencies..
Monday 27 February 2023 9.30-11.30am
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