Early Years Designated Safeguarding Leads Training
Introduction to the Role of the Early Years Designated Safeguarding Lead
This is part of the blended learning offer for Early Years Designated Safeguarding Lead. If you are a new childminder or are new to the role of Early Years Designated Safeguarding Lead and haven’t previously attended the this introductory course, or full day or two evening sessions Early Years Designated Safeguarding Lead course run previously, this is the course for you.
To book a place, please complete the booking form: https://forms.office.com/r/nAPWrfR6iw
Early Help Workshops
The session will include time spent together looking at:
- What does early help mean
- How do we identify families who would benefit from early help
- What makes a good early help assessment
- How do we work “with” families to improve outcomes
- How can practitioners access extra support for families
Aims and Objectives:
- The Early Help Process - Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycle
- The role of the lead professional and the team around the family (TAF)
- The support available to lead professionals and team around the family (TAF) members
- Why Early Help is important and the difference it makes
Target Audience: all agencies working with children and families, including:
- Children Services
- Early Years settings
- Education
- Housing
- NHS
- Police
- Voluntary Schools
For dates and times for the workshop please visit Blackpool Safeguarding Partnerships Training
Prevent Duty e-learning
In these training courses, you will learn about:
- the Prevent duty
- different forms of extremism and terrorism
- the risk around radicalisation and your supportive role
- making a Prevent referral that is both informed and made with good intention
- the interventions and support available
Prevent duty training - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please see link below for Lancashire Prevent Partnership training dates and Early Years Prevent Awareness Webinar.
www.lancashirepreventpartnership.org.uk
E-learning Courses
Blackpool Council have now developed some online e-learning, you will find the links for these below. Face to face training will be available in the near future.
Female Genital Mutilation
https://fgmelearning.vc-enable.co.uk/Register/
Neglect Training
https://blackburn.melearning.university/user/login
Domestic Abuse Training
https://courses.idas.org.uk/courses/domestic-abuse-basic-awareness-training/
Safer Sleep
The Lullaby Trust tells us around 200 babies still die every year because of SIDS in the United Kingdom. (The Lullaby Trust, 2023). Over the years, there has been a significant reduction in SIDS deaths, largely due to an increase in evidence-based knowledge and practice. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) states that the although the number of SIDS deaths have followed a general pattern of decline since records began in 2004, the rate has remained stable overall since 2014 (ONS, 2021). There were ten infant and child deaths where unsafe sleep practices were found reviewed by the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) in Pan-Lancashire in 2020/21 (CDOP, 2021).
Further information, including information to share with families, can be found at the links below.
CDOP Safer Sleep - Children's Safeguarding Assurance Partnership (safeguardingpartnership.org.uk)
CDOP Report Template (safeguardingpartnership.org.uk)
Professionals - The Lullaby Trust
The Request for Support Hub Training
Overview & Objectives:
To equip participants with the knowledge and skills required to navigate the Request for Support Hub effectively, including understanding agency roles, making high-quality referrals, interpreting referral outcomes, and using the Duty Line appropriately.
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Identify Agencies and Roles
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Describe which agencies form part of the Request for Support Hub and explain their key responsibilities.
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Distinguish between agencies that sit within the Hub and those that do not.
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Make Effective Referrals
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Demonstrate how to complete and submit a referral using the new online referral form.
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Identify the components of a high-quality referral and understand why referral quality impacts response times and outcomes.
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Understand Referral Outcomes
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Explain what happens once a referral is received by Children’s Services.
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Outline the range of possible outcomes following a referral submission.
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Use the Duty Line Appropriately
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Describe the purpose of the Duty Line and recognise when it is appropriate to use it.
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Apply this understanding to ensure the Duty Line is used effectively and only in suitable situations.
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For dates and times of the training, please see link Blackpool Safeguarding Partnerships Training
Better Start Training Offer
The training on offer is as below, we are happy to come to your setting to deliver the sessions or alternatively share training that is offered across Blackpool as learning events that you may wish to attend.
Better Start Overview
This is a 60-70 min session delivered virtually via Teams or face to face. You will learn about the 45 million pound project that aims to improve the health of Pregnant Women, babies and their families and improve the development of children age 0-4 years old, to improve school readiness. The session also explores child brain development, the general public’s attitudes and beliefs regarding child development and the initiatives in place across our town to support Pregnant Women babies and their families.
Brain Architecture Game
This is 90 min training session that is delivered face to face, in teams of 3-4 people per table. In groups of up to 20 people per session. it is interactive, it explores the powerful role of relationships, it builds on an understanding of childhood experiences and shaping of early brain development. It looks at what promotes positive brain development, what may help support tolerable experiences and what toxic experiences may derail child brain development and the consequences that this has for the child, adult and society. It builds on Trauma Informed approaches all professionals use, and heightens the awareness of the consequences of ACE’s.
Trauma and Adversity
This is a 3 hour session delivered face to face where we explore the impact of Adverse childhood experiences and the effect it has on the developing child, throughout childhood and focusing on the health and social implications for teenagers and in later adulthood. We look at what it is like to live in Blackpool for our families and consider the makeup of our Blackpool population and the health inequalities some face.
We will also look at us as professionals, the trauma our working lives may expose us to and how we may be able to care for each other and ourselves better in the future. In addition to this session there are sessions specifically directed at schools on offer from Mrs Jane Mannino, jle@st-mary.blackpool.sch.uk
Resilience Film
This film is offered to those wanting an understanding of using a trauma informed approach within different settings, this presentation provides you with a prelude that is individually profession focused, 20 mins followed by a 60 min film it is targeting those of you working with early years, primary age children, teenagers, within education settings. We can arrange for this to be played at a time of your choice for a whole setting viewing
Brain Story Certification
FREE 19 module online learning opportunity, please enrol and complete at your own pace, it is a vital resource, each module is referenced and a bibliography is provided, great resource for different modules or for cpd, revalidation, a certification is provided from Alberta once completed. See attachment for content of each module. Link below:
www.albertafamilywellness.org/training
For dates and times for training please visit Training and Events – Blackpool Better Start
For more information please visit Blackpool Better Start – Raising happy, healthy children together in Blackpool, Lancashire
Getting on Better Relationship Toolkit Training
Course Contents
FREE- One Day Relationship Toolkit Training.
The Toolkit Training is designed to help practitioners explore parental relationships and enable practitioners to gain a better understanding of family life and explore what the children’s lived experiences are.
The toolkit is able to be used to support assessments being completed, it can be used with parents that are experiencing parental conflict, whether parents remain in a relationship or have separated.
The toolkit is designed for practitioners to be able to pick up and use easily.
Throughout the training we explore the toolkit fully and support all practitioners to better understand how parental conflict presents, how to explore this as a professional and what the impact is for children.
Aims and Objectives
- Build practitioner confidence and skills with exploring parental relationships.
- Better understand the impact that frequent, intense and poorly resolved parental conflict can have on children, young people and the whole family.
- Practitioners to have a range of tools that support them with exploring and offering support around parental conflict.
- Better understanding around the difference between domestic abuse and parental conflict.
Target Audience
Internal, Schools, Children’s Services, Adult Services, External and Voluntary.
For dates and times of the training please visit Blackpool Safeguarding Partnerships Training
