STAFFORDSHIRE ONLY - NEW Level 3 Safeguarding Children and Adult Asylum Seekers & Refugees Multi-Agency Training

This course is available for specific multi agency organisations that may encounter asylum seekers and refugees in their work in Staffordshire. For those working with children and families outside of Staffordshire please contact your local Safeguarding Children Board.

Participants must have undertaken Level 1 Child Protection training before attending this course.

This course will update your Level 2 certificate to continue to be the Designated/Deputy Safeguarding Lead in your organisation for another 2 years.

For training costs please go to our webpage Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Board

A half-day workshop aimed to increase the understanding of asylum seekers and refugees and how multi agency working can impact on children, young people, and their families.

Learning Outcomes:

• An understanding of how legislation and safeguarding principles relate to asylum seekers and refugees.

• How language affects the way people are seen and treated.
  
  
• An understanding of children, young people and their families lived experiences (includes cultural aspects; human trafficking; family loss; impacts on physical, emotional, and mental health; barriers to support; language concerns; interpreters / translators.)
  
  
• To promote the importance of multi-agency working and cooperation.
  
  
• Being trauma informed when working with asylum seeking and refugee children, young people, and their families.
  
  
• Workforce wellbeing – burnout, self-care and building emotional resilience.
  
  
• Using Restorative Practice to understand the importance of the child’s voice and the ‘child’s world.’ All children should be offered the opportunity to speak to a professional alone or have a suitable advocate to speak on their behalf (particularly for children who are not yet able to talk either because of their age or stage of development, because of a disability, or that English is their 2^nd language) to gather their views and opinions.
• To understand your own agency's procedures and principles of practice within the context of asylum seekers and refugees
  
  
• To understand the SSCB Escalation Policy