Course outline:

This brief certificated webinar is aimed at raising awareness of safeguarding children and child protection.

Training topics will include:

• What is safeguarding and child protection
• Whose business is safeguarding
• Categories of child abuse
• Signs and indicators of child abuse
• Abuse from outside the family
• What to do if you are worried
• Providing services for children and their families: when are you vulnerable?

Learning outcomes:

• An awareness of safeguarding and child protection
• Understand everyone’s responsibility
• Knowledge of categories of abuse, abuse from outside the family, and what to look out for
• Understand what to do if you are worried
• Understand how your behaviour can sometimes make you vulnerable.

Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.

Audience: Employees and volunteers who work for organisations that provide services to children and their families and may come into occasional contact.

Employees and volunteers who have regular and daily contact should book onto the webinar ‘An Introduction to Safeguarding’ 

Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Cost:

• SACPA Member Rate: £65
• SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £30
• Non-member Rate: £130*

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Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa

Claire is Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa and leads on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues, and leading multi-disciplinary teams and projects. Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis.