Safeguarding Training During COVID-19

Due to social distancing and safer working practices, I am currently unavailable for face to face training, however I am taking bookings for September onward. (Providing social distancing can be upheld in the host venue)

However, please stay up to date with this blog for advice and guidance around children and adults wellbeing, personal development and compassionate communication in the workplace.

If you are looking for training or have overdue updates, the local (Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire) advice from the SC Board is to review your Safeguarding Training Policy. “you look at your Safeguarding Training policy and consider extending the dates until training becomes more accessible. However, we encourage you to demonstrate how you are keeping staff up to date with relevant safeguarding issues. How do you plan to disseminate news of changes within the local area? Is safeguarding being addressed weekly? If so, how? How is this planned for and monitored? For example, do you have a COVID-19 Safeguarding Contingency Plan in place and are all staff/volunteers confident in their understanding of this?”

You can also find Free Training at these National sites:

Virtual College:

COVID-19 related training:

• Prevent COVID-19
• Infection, Prevention & Control Course
• How to Reduce the Spread of Infection (Infographic)
• How to Wash your Hands (Poster)

Other safeguarding training from Virtual College:

• Understanding Young Minds
   
• Awareness of Forced Marriage
   
• Female Genital Mutilation
   
• Keep Them Safe: Protecting Children from CSE
  

Home Office:

• Training on PREVENT DUTY

NSPCC: 

• Safeguarding awareness training for workers who enter people’s homes

Every Child Protected from Trafficking (ECPAT):

• The National Referral Mechanism for Child Victims of Trafficking

 Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE):

• Parental Substance Misuse – published 2011
• Parental Mental Health – published 2011

 The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (update):

• Safeguarding Children at risk of Criminal Exploitation

Open University:

• Working together for children: Stirling

 SCHOOL SPECIFIC TRAINING:

Dr Pooky Knightsmith is offering free training each week at the moment via Creative Education.

• Support a Safe, Successful return to School using the Swan Framework (Creative Education)
   
• Supporting Students with Bereavement (Creative Education)
   
• School Bereavement Courses (Winston’s Wish)
   
• Bereavement (Phoenix Education Consultancy)
   
• Video Lessons (Childnet)
   
• CAMHS resources