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Designated Safeguarding Leads Training
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Designated Safeguarding Leads Training
Tuesday 1 October 2024, 9am-3pm at the Solaris Centre
Wednesday 5 February 2025, 9am-3pm at the Solaris Centre
Tuesday 10 June 2025, 9am-3pm at the Solaris Centre
Contextual Safeguarding
You will be provided with a practical tool kit to help you deliver direct work with the children you work with, whom often spend time away from home without adult supervision.
Child Protection, Core Groups and Conferencing
Aims
The aim of this course is to offer practitioners the opportunity to build on their knowledge and skills to be able to actively participate in a Child protection conference and gain an understanding of their roles and responsibilities moving forward into the core groups.
Objectives
- To participate in a Child Protection Conference with the Blackpool Families Rock model of practice
- To understand the importance of communicating effectively with the children and families they are supporting with a child centered approach
- To recognise the importance of restorative practices whilst working in a multi-agency approach
- To develop a clear and supportive Child Protection plan that will lead into the core groups
- Their role sits within the core groups and overall plan for the children and families they are supporting
- Model a conference
- Model and core group
- What happens when a core group isn’t effective
Training dates:
- Tuesday 8th October 2024
- Tuesday 14th January 2025
- Tuesday 8th April 2025
To book onto the training before September 2024 please use the booking link: Training Booking Request Form
To book onto the training after September 2024 please use the booking Link: Blackpool Safeguarding Partnerships (MASA, BSAB, BSafe) Events - 9 Upcoming Activities and Tickets | Eventbrite
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Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (YMHFA)
Blackpool’s Primary Mental Health Workers, based within Blackpool CAMHS, have been commissioned by Blackpool Opportunity Area, to deliver Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (YMHFA) to our schools. The training will support school staff to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of how to support children and young people who may be suffering with emotional wellbeing or mental health issues.
2 day training
Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 November 2024, 9:30am-4:30pm at the Solaris Centre
Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 June 2025, 9:30am-4:30pm at the Solaris Centre
One day Champions Course
There is no charge for the training and all course participants will receive a Youth MHFA Manual.
Thursday 26th September 2024, 9:30am-4:30pm at the Solaris Centre
Thursday 14th November 2024, 9:30am-4:30pm at the Solaris Centre
Introduction to The Request For Support Hub
This training is aimed at all practitioners working with children and young people.
The training will provide participants with information about:
- The agencies which sit within the Request for Support Hub and their responsibilities
- The launch of the new online referral form
- What a “good” referral looks
- What happens on receipt of a referral
- Advice Line and Duty Line
Training dates:
- Wednesday 23rd October 2024, 10am-12pm
- Monday 20th January 2025, 10am-12pm
- Wednesday 23rd April 2025, 10am-12pm
All the training will be virtual.
Please book here: Training Booking Request Form
Safer Recruitment
This event is aimed at all line managers who recruit staff to work with children and vulnerable adults. By attending the course you will develop the use of safer recruitment techniques and help to fulfil your responsibility to have in place safer recruitment and selection practices.
This workshop is intended to provide a consistent national minimum standard of good practice measures that organisations will adopt when recruiting and selecting people, including volunteers, to work with children and vulnerable adults. This approved training was originally badged by the National College of School Leadership (NCSL) and then the Childrens Workforce Development Council (CWDC). However it is now accredited and registered with the Lucy Faithful Foundation as part of the Safer Recruitment Consortium. It must also be noted that the trainers delivering this course are nationally registered trainers with the Safer Recruitment Consortium.
Aims and Objectives:
- Increase your understanding of offender behaviour
- Understand the key features of safer recruitment that will help to deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people
- Understand the policies and practices that minimise opportunities for abuse and ensure its prompt reporting for concerns
- Be able to consider/review your own practices and procedures within your area of work.
Training date:
Friday 4 October 2024, 9:30am-4:30pm at Bickerstaffe.
Please book here
Private Fostering Training
Private fostering is when a child under the age of 16 (or 18 if they have a disability) is cared for by someone other than a parent or close relative for more than 28 days without the involvement of their local authority/social care. The aim of the training is to raise awareness of private fostering and help practitioners to identify when children are being privately fostered and know how to respond appropriately.
The training objectives of this session are to understand:
- What Private Fostering is
- Why children might be privately fostered
- The responsibilities of the local authority and other partner agencies
- How to identify when a child is privately fostered and what action should be taken
This training is for: Multi-agency practitioners working with children and young people.
The training takes place:
- Monday 30th September 2024, 10am-11:30am at Solaris Centre
- Monday 2nd December 2024, 1:00pm to 2:30pm at Bispham Scout Hut
- Thursday 20th march 2025, 1:00pm to 2:30pm, TBC
Please book onto the training via the link: Blackpool Safeguarding Partnerships (MASA, BSAB, BSafe) Events - 3 Upcoming Activities and Tickets | Eventbrite
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Getting on Better Relationship Toolkit Training
Course Contents
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.
Available Sessions
- Wednesday 28th August, 10:00am-4:00pm at the North Family Hub
- Wednesday 18th September, 10:00am-4:00pm at the North Family Hub
- Wednesday 16th October, 10:00am-4:00pm at the North Family Hub
- Wednesday 13th November, 10:00am-4:00pm at the North Family Hub
- Wednesday 11th December, 10:00am-4:00pm at the North Family Hub
How to Book On
If you have access to iTrent Employee Self Service, please visit the Learning section to book yourself on.
If you are a council employee without access to Employee Self Service, or are joining our training from an affiliated company or school, your manager can submit bookings.
For any other applicant (including foster carers, Shared Lives Carers, students, and agency workers) please submit booking requests using the following form:
Specialist Gaming and Gambling Harm Workshop
Course Contents
Ygam are working with Blackpool Council to offer a fully funded workshop, delivered through the Young People’s Gambling Harm Prevention Programme. This workshop is aimed at professionals who work with children or young
people in an Education, Youth Work or Youth Sports setting.
Topics Covered
- Gaming and gambling harm
- Advertising
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Blurred lines between gaming and gambling
- How to spot the signs of harm
- Where to get help and support
On completion you will receive a City & Guilds Certificate and Digital Credential, and have access to over 1000 resources, including PSHE linked schemes of work and 1:1 and small group work activities which you can download and use in your setting.
Available Sessions
- Tuesday 15th October 2024, 15:45-17:45 – booking link here
- Thursday 26th June 2025, 09:30-11:30 – booking link here
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