Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership Training
Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership have some live training sessions coming up. All sessions are delivered via Zoom – just visit the LSCP website for more details and to book places.

To book a place on any of these sessions please click this link – https://www.leedsscp.org.uk/News/Upcoming-courses 

Introduction to Child Exploitation

19th January or 2nd February or 10th March – 09:30-14:30
This course is for anyone working with children or young people who may be at risk of child exploitation. This course will offer an overview of child exploitation in its various forms including county lines and sexual exploitation. The course will also help practitioners to understand how to identify when a child or young person may be at risk of exploitation. It also looks at how practitioners can respond to identified or suspected child exploitation in order to safeguard the child from harm.

Introduction to Domestic Violence and Abuse – including the impact on the child
10th February or 4th March – 09:30-13:00
This course is for anyone working with children, young people and families who may be in a position to recognise and respond to domestic abuse. This course aims to provide an introduction or refresher to your understanding of the impact of domestic violence and abuse in families and on children and to increase your skills in working with those families including with ones who are causing the harm.

Mind Your Language – Exploitation & Victim Blaming Webinar
28th January – 13:00-15:00 or 24th March – 10:00-12:00
A webinar to explore victim blaming language used around the exploitation of children, young people and young adults. This webinar delivered by Sarah Brown from the National Working Group is for anyone working with children or young people who may be at risk of child exploitation. The language we use as professionals can have a significant, and potentially lifelong, impact on victims of exploitation. A victim of exploitation is never to blame for the abuse they have lived through, yet we live in times where victims are still blamed.
This webinar provides an overview of theories of victim blaming and gives examples of how we may see and hear victim blaming within our working environments. The webinar enables discussion on victim-blaming language and terminology along with exploring how we dehumanise young people through the language we use. The aim of the webinar is to explore our practice to ensure we accurately and sensitively record and report victim experiences.

Safer Recruitment
23rd & 24th February 09:00-12:30 (must attend both sessions)
A course A course for managers and staff with a particular responsibility for recruiting paid and voluntary workers into positions which have contact with children and young people and / or their carers. This course will be delivered over two half-day sessions. Delegates must attend both sessions.
This course looks at how to undertake the recruitment process safely with regards to child protection. Please note that this is not intended to be a comprehensive workshop on staff recruitment and selection, but rather on how to make those processes safer.
This course is aimed at the wider children’s workforce (non-education). For Education specific Safer Recruitment training visit the Leeds For Learning website.
This course is written by The Safer Recruitment Consortium and contains a multiple choice assessment and therefore participants must attend both half day sessions

To book a place on any of these sessions please click this link – https://www.leedsscp.org.uk/News/Upcoming-courses

Leeds Children Safeguarding Board