Child Protection Training

THIS TRAINING IS FOR PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH PORTSMOUTH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND WILL FOCUS ON PORTSMOUTH PROCESS AND PRACTICE. IF YOU DO NOT WORK IN PORTSMOUTH PLEASE VISIT YOUR RESPECTIVE SAFEGUARDNG PARTNERSHIP FOR TRAINING

This course is for practitioners who will be expected to complete an Inter-agency Contact Form to MASH. If this is not part of your role this course is not necessary.

Aim: To support and equip key professionals with knowledge and skills to promote good practice in child protection

Who is it for? This training is for designated officers/professionals with responsibilities with regards to making inter-agency contacts to MASH, attending Child Protection Conferences and working with children on Child Protection Plans. 

Intercollegiate Document for health care staff - Level 3: All clinical staff working with children, young people and/or their parents/ carers and/or any adult who could pose a risk to children who could potentially contribute to assessing, planning, intervening and/ or evaluating the needs of a child or young person and/or parenting capacity (regardless of whether there have been previously identified child protection/safeguarding concerns or not). 

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Recognise that the child and their views are central to all child protection work and know how this translates into every area of practice.

• Understand the history, definitions and legislative framework of child protection and how this informs practice.

• Apply the Local Safeguarding Children Board Procedures (including the Threshold Document) to your practice.

• Understand what action to take if you have a safeguarding concern: including contacting the MASH, the place of parental consent and how to complete the Inter-Agency Contact Form.

• To know your role and responsibilities in the child protection process

• Be aware of how our attitudes, values and behaviour can both positively and negatively impact on safeguarding children

Time: This is a one day course. We offer this training once per month during term-time. Please note that lunch is not provided.

Certificate: Attendance all day is mandatory to qualify. You will receive a certificate on completion of evaluation on line.

Prerequisite: To have completed Basic Safeguarding or equivalent within 3 years and Early help training or equivalent experience.

PSCP seek to ensure the cost of training is as low as possible for organisations. We therefore ask you to ensure that you give us 3 days' notice for non-attendance, unfortunately if you do not give this notice period we will have to charge your organisation a non-attendance fee. This fee will be the rate of a course place.

We do however appreciate there will be occasions when giving notice is not possible, please talk with us and we will make a decision on a case by case basis as to whether or not a charge will be made.

If you are a private organisation, Early Years provider, School or College there is a charge for this course, before booking please refer to our charging policy: https://www.portsmouthscp.org.uk/5-training/ (Bottom of the page)