This online multi-agency course is for any member of staff who is considered to be a lead professional for safeguarding or may be involved in multi-agency approaches to safeguarding children and young people in their organisation. This may include undertaking s47 (child abuse) enquiries, working with complex cases, or those who would regularly attend Initial Child Protection Conferences.
This course is equivalent to NHS Level 3 training. It is for any member of staff who is considered to be a lead professional for safeguarding, or may be involved in multi-agency approaches to safeguarding children and young people in their organisation.
By the end of the course your will have:
- Greater awareness of your own role and that of others in safeguarding children and young people and the prevention of abuse
- Developing skills in undertaking effective assessments, along with understanding your own individual responsibilities for assessing risk
- Improved knowledge of the legislation, guidance and local procedures that exist to safeguard children
- An understanding of individual roles and responsibilities within multi-agency working and the associated skills around this
- Better understanding of, and developing skills to increase effective professional practice when safeguarding children.
Trainer detail
This training is delivered by the Leeds Safeguarding Partnership Business Unit.
Delivery
This session will be delivered live on Zoom from 9am to 3pm and participants will need to attend the full session in a private space with no distractions.
This is an interactive session and in order for participants to fully engage we ask that the training is accessed via a laptop or PC only (no mobile phones or tablets).
Delegates’ videos and microphones should be switched on throughout the whole session.
Only one delegate per device and if accessing in the same room as a colleague please ensure headsets are used.
Further information is available in the LSCP Live Online Training Guide. If you foresee difficulties with these instructions, please first speak to your line manager or internal IT services and if needed contact the LSCP Training team to discuss on lscp.training@leeds.gov.uk.
Please note that if you have already undertaken this training within the last 3 years you should book on to Safeguarding Children & Young People Refresher Training instead.
Preparation for the session
Participants must have completed Introduction to Safeguarding Children and Young People training (or their in-house equivalent) before they can access this training.
We would also like to remind people that Working Together training only needs to be completed once. We recommend people update their Safeguarding training every 3 years and this is possible by completing our Safeguarding Children & Young People Refresher Training which is currently available online.
Charges
LSCP partner agency, or Third Sector / not-for-profit agencies who have an annual turnover of less than £250k (voluntary, community, faith) will be exempt from charges to attend learning events. With the following exceptions:
- Charges will apply for non-attendance on confirmed bookings
- Charges will apply for the non-completion of knowledge checks.
There is a charge for all private organisation for attendance and non-attendance to training. Third Sector / not-for-profit agencies who have an annual turnover of more than £250k will be charged £50.
All delegates from any agency will be charged £50 for non-attendance at the live session, so you will need to provide billing details when you register for the course.
For further information see our Charging Policy.
Date/ Time
- Tuesday 18 March (Course full)
- Tuesday 29 April, 9am to 3pm
- Tuesday 6 May, 9am to 3pm
- Tuesday 10 June, 9am to 3pm
Book your place on Working Together to Safeguarding Children & Young People training.