STOKE-ON-TRENT ONLY - Level 3 Safeguarding Children and Domestic Abuse

This course is available for people working with children and families in Stoke-on-Trent. For those working with children and families outside of Stoke-on-Trent, please contact your local Safeguarding Children Partnership.

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.

TRAINING COST:

The cost to attend this Level 3 course is:

• £100 per person
  (With the exception of the three statutory safeguarding partners, voluntary, faith, charitable and community interest company organisations).

Course outline

• Demystification and clarification of Domestic Abuse
• How to respond
• How to ask questions safely
• Completing risk assessment (DASH/RIC)
• Referral pathways – MARAC
• Understand what New Era do and the service provided
• To promote the importance of multi-agency working and cooperation
• Sources of Support
• Young people in unhealthy relationships
• Understand changes in legislation
• Using Restorative Practice to understand the importance of the child’s voice and the ‘child’s world’
• Develop understanding of domestic abuse, which includes controlling and coercive behaviour from perpetrators of domestic abuse, and the impact this has on children
• To work more effectively by gaining a greater understanding of the different interventions available for safety planning and support
• To understand your own agencies procedures and principles of practice within the context of Domestic Abuse