Training Calendar
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Training Calendar
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.
25th April 2024 – (face to face)
14th May 2024 – (face to face)
12th June 2024 – (face to face)
3rd & 4th July 2024 – (virtual)
24th September 2024 – (face to face)
7th & 8th October 2024 – (virtual)
5th November 2024 – (face to face)
4th December 2024 – (face to face)
January 2025 – date coming soon
February 2025 – date coming soon
March 2025 – date coming soon
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.
17th April 2024 – (face to face)
9th May 2024 – (virtual)
10th June 2024 – (face to face)
5th July 2024 – (face to face)
24th September 2024 – (virtual)
14th October 2024 – (virtual)
7th November 2024 – (face to face)
10th December 2024 – (face to face)
January 2025 – date coming soon
February 2025 – date coming soon
March 2025 – date coming soon
30th April 2024 – (virtual)
2nd July 2024 – (face to face)
15th October 2024 – (face to face)
January 2025 – date coming soon
Suicide Prevention in Children aged 16 years and under –
This 1-hour 30-minute webinar is for professionals working in contact with families in East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton and Hove who haven’t attended a Suicide awareness course within the last 3 years.
31st January 2024 – (virtual)
15th May 2024 – (virtual)
18th September 2024 – (virtual)
Suicide Prevention in Children over 16 years –
16th July 2024 – (virtual)
This 2 hour live webinar will raise awareness of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to multi-agency practitioners. Practitioners will be supported to understand the identification and support processes to enable them to safeguard and identify children at risk of FGM more confidently.
19th June 2024 – (virtual)
This 2 hour live webinar aims to raise awareness of Honour Based Abuse/Forced Marriage and the impact on victims/children. This session will help practitioners with the identification and support processes, and will enable practitioners to be able to understand the issues related to Honour Based Abuse /Forced Marriage across all cultures and religions and families.
15th October 2024 – (virtual)
This webinar will support you in developing your knowledge and awareness around spiritual and ritualistic abuse and introduce you to the key signs, legislation, government guidance and local policy that relate to this complex topic.
7th May 2024 – (virtual)
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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.
18th April 2024 – (virtual)
15th May 2024 – (virtual)
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
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.
9th October 2024 – (virtual)
11th March 2025 – (virtual)
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.
More dates coming soon
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)
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.
24th April 2024 – (face to face)
4th June 2024 – (face to face)
17th September 2024 – (face to face)
11th December 2024 – (face to face)
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.
18th April 2024 – face to face
21st May 2024 – face to face
12th June 2024 – face to face
2nd July 2024 – face to face
26th September 2024 – face to face
1st October 2024 – face to face
7th November 2024 – face to face
4th December 2024 – face to face
January 2025 – date coming soon
February 2025 – date coming soon
March 2025 – date coming soon
Visit the Learning Pool to log on and find this course
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.
18th June 2024 (virtual)
26th September 2024 (face to face)
6th November 2024 (virtual)
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.
30th April 2024 (virtual)
11th July 2024 (virtual)
15th October 2024 (virtual)
This webinar is for anyone working with children, young people, adults and families who may be experiencing, or have experienced, Domestic Abuse, and will specifically focus on Controlling and Coercive Behaviour (CCB).
17th April 2024 – (virtual)
21st May 2024 – (virtual)
9th October 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.
18th April 2024 – (virtual)
16th May 2024 – (virtual)
12th June 2024 – (virtual)
17th September 2024 – (virtual)
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.
29th April 2024 – (virtual)
21st May 2024 – (virtual)
6th June 2024 – (virtual)
5th July 2024 – (virtual)
16th September 2024 – (virtual)
8th October 2024 – (virtual)
4th November 2024 – (virtual)
2nd December 2024 – (virtual)
January 2025 – date coming soon
February 2025 – date coming soon
March 2025 – date coming soon
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.
12th June 2024 – (virtual)
9th September 2024 – (virtual)
9th December 2024 – (virtual)
20th March 2025 – (virtual)
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.
10th September 2024 – (virtual)
3rd December 2024 – (virtual)
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.
Child Sexual Abuse
10th June 2024 – – (virtual)
7th November 2024 – (virtual)
Non Accidental Injury / Abusive Head Trauma
More dates coming soon
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.
14th May 2024 (virtual)
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.
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)
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.
26th April 2024 – (virtual)
17th June 2024 – (virtual)
13th August 2024- (virtual)
8th October 2024 – (virtual)
3rd December 2024 – (virtual)
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.
22nd May 2024 – (face to face)
13th September (face to face)
22nd January 2025 – (face to face)
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