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This training will provide you with an opportunity to explore and practice the fundamental safeguarding skills including studying the 4 categories or abuse, the voice of the child, reporting concerns and exploring local safeguarding process. Please note we are offering a choice of live webinar training (2 x half days) and 1 day face to face, so please ensure you check how the course is being delivered before booking a place.

6th & 7th December 2023 (virtual)

13th & 14th December 2023 – (virtual)

30th January 2024 – (face to face)

19th February 2024  –  (face to face)

12th March 2024 –  (face to face)

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This training will provide you with an opportunity to upgrade your safeguarding knowledge and understanding in order for you to carry out your safeguarding responsibilities effectively. Please note we are offering a choice of live webinar training and half day face to face, so please ensure you check how the course is being delivered before booking a place.

11th December 2023 – (virtual)

23rd January 2024 (face to face)

26th February 2024 – (virtual)

March 2024 date coming soon – (face to face)

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This short online session, delivered by a subject specialist is suitable for all professionals working with parents/carers who care for a young baby or are pregnant. Current research will be presented to enable you to learn about the importance of sharing new safer sleep information with families and also how to have effective conversations around crying babies. Information and resources will also be shared to support your work in this important area of safeguarding.

21st December 2023 – (virtual)

17th January 2024 – (virtual)

20th February 2024 – (virtual)

15th March 2024- (virtual)

18th April 2024 – (virtual)

15th May 2024 – (virtual)

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This Pan Sussex training session is aimed at practitioners working with or looking to develop a better understanding of working with children who have special educational needs or a disability, why this makes them more vulnerable to abuse of neglect and how to support them and help to keep them safe.

More dates coming soon

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Friends, Families and Travellers is a leading national charity that works to end racism and discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life. This training session focussed on safeguarding will provide information on what to take into account when working with gypsy and Traveller families, while covering the rich histories and diverse cultures to provide context. This training will equip you with the tools needed to make your safeguarding practices more inclusive for Gypsies and Travellers.

12th March 2024 – (virtual)

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This 2 hour briefing will provide practitioners with the findings from the EHE audit that took place earlier this year. links to National and local safeguarding practice reviews are considered. along with the importance of escalating professional differences in order to safeguard children effectively.

More dates coming soon

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This 3 hour online and interactive session will enable participants to discuss and reflect on how safeguarding issues may relate specifically to LGBT+ children and young people – such as, increased risk of suicide, self-harm, exploitation, missing education etc. This course is a Pan Sussex event and is delivered by Allsorts youth project.

7th December 2023 – (virtual)

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This 3 hour live webinar is for frontline professionals to consider unconscious bias and stereotypes and how to address them within ourselves as well as challenge them. The Adultification of children will be explored, as well as victim blaming language, the importance of using the correct terminology and understand challenges faced by Black, Asian and Minorities Ethnic Communities.

23rd May 2024 – (virtual)

16th September 2024 – (virtual)

10th December 2024 – (virtual)

11th March 2025 – (virtual)

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This webinar, is a unique opportunity for those of you who are, or are likely to be, directly involved in Safeguarding Review and learning processes; including Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, and other learning opportunities.

6th December 2023 – (virtual)

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More dates coming soon.

This 2-hour interactive webinar aims to increase understanding and awareness of being trauma informed. Practitioners from across all agencies working with children, young people and their families are encouraged to attend in order to see how being trauma informed can support their safeguarding work.

16th January 2024 – (virtual)

14th March 2024 – (virtual)

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Most of us experience trauma in our lifetimes. Practitioners across care, health and criminal justice professions often work with families, adults and children who are in crisis and experience complex needs with histories of trauma.

This 1 day face to face session is supported by an expert with lived experience, who supports practitioners to explore how past experiences, relationships, intersectionality, and context affect current ways of being, relationships and interactions. The course includes strategies that will support direct work with individuals. Importantly there is also a focus on practitioner wellbeing and strategies that can support practitioners and organisational resilience.

13th December 2023 – (face to face)

24th April 2024 – (face to face)

4th June 2024 – (face to face)

17th September 2024 – (face to face)

11th December 2024 – (face to face)

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This one day training  session explores potential indicators of neglect and the vulnerabilities associated with this type of abuse. Tools and resources to support your work are explored, as well as the importance of chronologies, analysis and creative ways to ensure the voice of the child is captured in a meaningful and effective way.

5th December 2023 – (face to face)

19th February 2024  – (face to face)

28th March 2024 – (face to face)

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More dates coming soon

This 3 ½ hour session is aimed at front line practitioners, working with young people, who may have or may be experiencing domestic abuse within their intimate relationships. Its purpose is to assist you in furthering your knowledge and understanding of how young people experience abuse in their own intimate relationships. We will look at how the ‘teenage brain’ impacts decision making, understand the impact of social media and consider use of language when supporting young people in relationships.

16th January 2024 (virtual)

31st January 2024 (face to face)

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This 5-hour interactive, teacher led webinar is for WSCC staff and external professionals who work with children and young people, adults, and families to identify risk and respond to victims of domestic abuse.

6th December 2023 (virtual)

20th March 2024 – (virtual)

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This 5-hour interactive webinar is for anyone working with children, young people, families and who may be experiencing domestic abuse and will support you in developing an awareness of the impact that domestic abuse has on children. The training is also suitable for people working with adults with childhood trauma of whom experienced domestic abuse as a child.
During the webinar you will be part of a group that will be facilitated by a domestic abuse trainer.

9th January 2024 – (virtual)

22nd February 2024 – (virtual)

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This 2 hour interactive webinar will provide you with the opportunity to develop this important safeguarding skill and help you to apply it to your daily practice.

4th December 2023 – (virtual)

18th January 2024 – (virtual)

6th February 2024 – (virtual)

19th March 2024 – (virtual)

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This 2 hour online briefing is aimed at workers who have occasional contact with children and young people in their daily roles. It will support you in developing an awareness of what child exploitation is, how to identify it and how you need to respond.

13th December 2023 – (virtual)

17th January 2024 – (virtual)

14th March 2024 – (virtual)

12th June 2024 – (virtual)

9th September 2024 – (virtual)

9th December 2024 – (virtual)

20th March 2025 – (virtual)

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This 1 day interactive webinar is for practitioners working across the partnership and seeks to support you in developing a greater awareness of how to respond to child exploitation through a contextual safeguarding lens.

15th February 2024 – (virtual)

14th May 2024 – (virtual)

10th September 2024 – (virtual)

3rd December 2024 – (virtual)

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These short interactive sessions will provide an overview on a range of topics including Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), Non Accidental Injuries (NAI) and Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) and Perplexing Presentations (PP). Each session will provide an opportunity to discuss practice based issues around the focus topic.

Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) 

More dates coming soon

 

Non Accidental Injury / Abusive Head Trauma

6th December 2023 – (virtual)

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This 2 hour interactive webinar is for those professionals working with or caring for children looked or care leavers. Legislations, guidance, procedures and practice will be discussed and attendees will have the opportunity to explore the increased vulnerabilities looked after children may face, ask questions and engage in multi-agency discussions. This is a joint session with Brighton & Hove and East Sussex. 

7th December 2023 – (virtual)

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This 1.5 hour session explores the factors that lead to extremism by identifying the links between vulnerability and radicalisation. This session will equip you to be able to support those who may be susceptible to radicalisation, ensuring individuals are diverted before any crime is committed.

7th December 2023  – (virtual)

19th January 2024  – (virtual)

15th February 2024  – (virtual)

18th March 2024 – (virtual)

16th April 2024  – (virtual)

29th May 2024  – (virtual)

20th June 2024  – (virtual)

19th July 2024  – (virtual)

12th August 2024 – (virtual)

20th September 2024 – (virtual)

17ht October 2024  – (virtual)

15th November 2024  – (virtual)

9th December 2024  – (virtual)

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This 1.5 hour session is for all professionals who have already attended the PREVENT Radicalisation & Extremism training and require an update to ensure that they have a current and relevant understanding of the PREVENT agenda and what it means to professionals in West Sussex.

11th December 2023  – (virtual)

6th January 2024 – (virtual)

9th February 2024  – (virtual)

21st March 2024  – (virtual)

26th April 2024  – (virtual)

17th June 2024  – (virtual)

13th August 2024- (virtual)

8th October 2024 – (virtual)

3rd December 2024  – (virtual)

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This 3 hour sessions will support you to explore the role of the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) in relation to safeguarding  when allegations are made against potentially unsuitable adults working or volunteering with children and young people.

19th January 2024 – (face to face)

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Tell us how attending WSSCP training has had an impact on your safeguarding practice…..

Please take a couple of minutes to tell us how attending a WSSCP training course has had an impact on your safeguarding practice. This information helps the WSSCP to shape training and ensure the sessions and resources are effective in supporting the needs of the children and young people’s workforce. Click on the link below to share your experience (please open using Google Chrome) – Give us your feedback 

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL DESIGNATED SAFEGUARDING LEAD (DSL) TRAINING FOR SCHOOLS CAN NOW BE FOUND ON THE WEST SUSSEX SERVICE FOR SCHOOLS WEBSITE

For specific Early Years and Childcare Training, please visit the Early years and Childcare Training and Support webpage to view the Training brochure and Network Flyer.

PLEASE BE AWARE THE IF YOUR SETTING IS PART OF THE EARLY YEARS SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMME, THE WSSCP TRAINING PROGRAMME IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS AND YOU WILL BE CHARGED ACCORDINGLY. 

If you have any queries regarding course availability or booking onto a course please contact the West Sussex Learning and Development Gateway via learninganddevelopment@westsussex.gov.uk or 01243 756 834.