Safeguarding
Aims:
To provide valuable information regarding the safeguarding of children. This course will enable staff to be confident in their role and respond appropriately should they be concerned about the safety and welfare of a child.
Objectives:
- Safeguarding – what brought us here?
- Understanding and applying Local Authority ‘Thresholds of Need
- Early Help and its role within safeguarding
- Recognising abuse including wider safeguarding issues such as FGM, sexual exploitation and Prevent
- Responding to a disclosure
- Information sharing
- Policies and procedures
- Allegations of professional abuse