Neglect occurs when a parent or carer fails to act and does not meet the physical and emotional needs of their child. Because neglect is an act of omission and rarely produces a crisis situation, it is difficult to identify and may be overlooked. Being neglected can have serious cumulative and long-lasting impacts on the lives of children and young people.

To understand the impact of parental behaviour on children and young people, we must understand their lived experience.

Targeted Audience – Multi-Agency Practitioners across North Wales

Thursday 30th March – Beaches Hotel, Prestatyn – 9.30am – 3.30pm

To book a place on one of the workshops, please click on the Eventbrite links:

By completing this training session you will be able to:

• Obtain an understanding of the government’s Preventing Extremism Agenda and the duty it imposes on individuals working in selected institutions/organisations.
• Appreciate that Prevent is based on vulnerability and safeguarding individuals from violent extremist ideology, irrespective of what the cause or sympathy is.
• Have some misconceptions and common misunderstandings around Prevent clarified. In particular, the spying accusations that Prevent has been stigmatised with since its inception.
• Obtain an awareness of the common traits/behaviours/indicators evident in those individuals at risk of violent extremist persuasion.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Targeted audience – Multi Agency Practitioners across North Wales                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Training is online – To book a place on one of the workshops, please click in the Eventbrite links:                    23^rd March 2023 – 3pm – 4pm

Neglect occurs when a parent or carer fails to act and does not meet the physical and emotional needs of their child. Because neglect is an act of omission and rarely produces a crisis situation, it is difficult to identify and may be overlooked. Being neglected can have serious cumulative and long-lasting impacts on the lives of children and young people.

To understand the impact of parental behaviour on children and young people, we must understand their lived experience.

Targeted Audience – Multi-Agency Practitioners across North Wales

Tuesday 14^th March – Deeside Leisure Centre -9.30am – 3.30pm

To book a place on one of the workshops, please click on the Eventbrite links.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-lived-experiences-of-neglected-children-tickets-488669863717

Neglect occurs when a parent or carer fails to act and does not meet the physical and emotional needs of their child. Because neglect is an act of omission and rarely produces a crisis situation, it is difficult to identify and may be overlooked. Being neglected can have serious cumulative and long-lasting impacts on the lives of children and young people.

To understand the impact of parental behaviour on children and young people, we must understand their lived experience.

Targeted Audience – Multi-Agency Practitioners across North Wales

Thursday 9^th February – Conwy Business Centre – 9.30am – 3.30pm (workshop through the medium of Welsh)

To book a place on one of the workshops, please click on the Eventbrite links.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-lived-experiences-of-neglected-children-tickets-488659151677

Neglect occurs when a parent or carer fails to act and does not meet the physical and emotional needs of their child. Because neglect is an act of omission and rarely produces a crisis situation, it is difficult to identify and may be overlooked. Being neglected can have serious cumulative and long-lasting impacts on the lives of children and young people.

To understand the impact of parental behaviour on children and young people, we must understand their lived experience.

Targeted Audience – Multi-Agency Practitioners across North Wales

Tuesday 7^th February – Beaches Hotel, Prestatyn – 9.30am – 3.30pm

To book a place on one of the workshops, please click on the Eventbrite link.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-lived-experiences-of-neglected-children-tickets-488653143707

Neglect occurs when a parent or carer fails to act and does not meet the physical and emotional needs of their child. Because neglect is an act of omission and rarely produces a crisis situation, it is difficult to identify and may be overlooked. Being neglected can have serious cumulative and long-lasting impacts on the lives of children and young people.

To understand the impact of parental behaviour on children and young people, we must understand their lived experience.

Targeted Audience – Multi-Agency Practitioners across North Wales

Wednesday 1^st February – Rhyl Rugby Club 9.30am – 3.30pm

To book a place on one of the workshops, please click on the Eventbrite links.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-lived-experiences-of-neglected-children-tickets-488646995317

Neglect occurs when a parent or carer fails to act and does not meet the physical and emotional needs of their child. Because neglect is an act of omission and rarely produces a crisis situation, it is difficult to identify and may be overlooked. Being neglected can have serious cumulative and long-lasting impacts on the lives of children and young people.

To understand the impact of parental behaviour on children and young people, we must understand their lived experience.

Targeted Audience – Multi-Agency Practitioners across North Wales

To book a place on one of the workshops, please click on the Eventbrite links.

Wednesday 25^th January – Studio 1, Galeri, Caernarfon.9.30am – 3.30pm (workshop through the medium of Welsh)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-lived-experiences-of-neglected-children-tickets-488644999347

Monday 23rd January 2023 09:30am – 1:00pm – Conwy Business Centre, Junction Way, Llandudno Junction

During the workshop we will consider the following areas:

• Current position in Wales
• Supporting children and families: Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse with confidence
• Good Practice across the region
• Working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse

To book a place on the workshop – go via the Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/csa-community-of-practice-workshop-tickets-477275703477

Neglect occurs when a parent or carer fails to act and does not meet the physical and emotional needs of their child. Because neglect is an act of omission and rarely produces a crisis situation, it is difficult to identify and may be overlooked. Being neglected can have serious cumulative and long-lasting impacts on the lives of children and young people.

To understand the impact of parental behaviour on children and young people, we must understand their lived experience.

Targeted Audience – Multi-Agency Practitioners across North Wales

Wednesday 18^th January – Holiday Inn, Northop Hall, Flintshire, 9.30am – 3.30pm

To book a place on one of the workshops, please click on the Eventbrite links.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-lived-experiences-of-neglected-children-tickets-488637918167

Aims of the workshop

To highlight how the Wales Safeguarding Procedures underpins the move away from process-led, target focused safeguarding interventions to a more person-centred approach and to achieve the desired outcomes of the adult, (outcomes that were checked and could change throughout the intervention).

To consider how individuals working engaged in safeguarding activity can demonstrate a person centred approach in practice but also how an organisation can demonstrate a commitment to person centred approaches within safeguarding processes.

Trainer: Vicky Allen

Time: 10:00 – 15:00

Supporting Children Supporting Parents NWSB Practice Guide; for considering the needs of children when working with adults with severe mental illness and/ or substance misuse

The overarching aim of this practice guide is to ensure that children, including unborn children of parent(s) experiencing mental ill health and/ or misusing substances receive appropriate support, safeguarding and protection.

All agencies have a collective responsibility to safeguard and protect children/adults at risk. This requires effective communication and coordination of multi-agency services to children and their families at both strategic and operational levels. This may include Adults and Children’s Social Services, Substance Misuse Services, Health, Education, Police, Probation and the Voluntary Sector.

Target audience:   As listed above

Trainer:                      Martin Calder

09/01/2023 9.30am – 12.30pm

Book a place via Eventbrite, using the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-children-supporting-parents-nwsb-practice-guide-tickets-348842245547

Supporting Children Supporting Parents NWSB Practice Guide; for considering the needs of children when working with adults with severe mental illness and/ or substance misuse

The overarching aim of this practice guide is to ensure that children, including unborn children of parent(s) experiencing mental ill health and/ or misusing substances receive appropriate support, safeguarding and protection.

All agencies have a collective responsibility to safeguard and protect children/adults at risk. This requires effective communication and coordination of multi-agency services to children and their families at both strategic and operational levels. This may include Adults and Children’s Social Services, Substance Misuse Services, Health, Education, Police, Probation and the Voluntary Sector.

Target audience:   As listed above

Trainer:                    Martin Calder

14/12/2022 09:30 – 12:30 

Book a place via Eventbrite, using the link below: 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-children-supporting-parents-nwsb-practice-guide-tickets-406705616447

Supporting Children Supporting Parents NWSB Practice Guide; for considering the needs of children when working with adults with severe mental illness and/ or substance misuse

The overarching aim of this practice guide is to ensure that children, including unborn children of parent(s) experiencing mental ill health and/ or misusing substances receive appropriate support, safeguarding and protection.

All agencies have a collective responsibility to safeguard and protect children/adults at risk. This requires effective communication and coordination of multi-agency services to children and their families at both strategic and operational levels. This may include Adults and Children’s Social Services, Substance Misuse Services, Health, Education, Police, Probation and the Voluntary Sector.

Target audience:   As listed above

Trainer:                  Martin Calder

Date:                        05/12/2022 09:30

Book a place via Eventbrite, using the link below: 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-children-supporting-parents-nwsb-practice-guide-tickets-406701574357

Failure to engage with fathers and father figures has been evidenced in research and case reviews for decades.

The NWSB are holding a workshop for practitioners to gain a greater knowledge of learning from practice reviews concerning engagement with fathers.  Attendees will also learn good practice tips for when working with father’s/ father figures.

Date:          Friday 18^th November 2022 1pm – 3.30pm

Trainer:      Paul Jones

This will be a virtual event. 

Follow the link to book a place via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-with-fathers-in-child-protection-workshop-tickets-375156271507

Professional curiosity is the capacity and communication skill to explore and understand what is happening within a family rather than making assumptions or accepting things at face value.

The workshop will refer to learning from practice reviews and will also go through the NWSCB Professional Curiosity Guidance.

Trainer:    Paul Jones

Date:          Friday 18^th November 2022, 9.30am – 11:00am

This will be a virtual event. 

Follow the link to book a place via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professional-curiosity-workshop-tickets-375147635677

This Learning workshop will focus on the learning from the most recent Child Practice Reviews and Multi Agency Professional Forums that have taken place within the last three years.

Date:          Thursday 17^th November 2022, 9.30am-11.30am

Trainer:     Val Owen

This will be a virtual event. 

Follow the link to book a place via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-from-child-practice-reviews-multi-agency-professional-forums-tickets-375170263357

LPS is rooted firmly within the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and all the key principles of the MCA fully apply. It is about safeguarding the rights of people who are under high levels of care and supervision, but lack the mental capacity to consent to those arrangements for their care.

LPS will apply to people in care homes, hospitals, supported accommodation, Shared Lives accommodation and their own homes and will apply to everyone from the age of 16 years.

The UK Government passed the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019, which extends to England and Wales, to replace DoLS with LPS. Some things will stay the same, some elements are reinforced, and some will change. Neil Allen will present an overview of the changes and challenges this will bring.

Presenter: Neil Allen (Essex Chambers)

Operation Jasmine was a historic inquiry by Gwent Police into allegations of neglect at a number of nursing homes in South East Wales from 2005 to 2013. It began as a result of a cluster of deaths in Gwent care homes linked to pressure wounds. It was the subject of an independent review by Margaret Flynn who published her report, , In Search of Accountability: a review of the neglect of older people living in care homes investigated as Operation Jasmine in May 2015.

The session will explore:

• The lessons learned.
• What has changed since then.
• How the lessons learned may be pertinent in the context of the current climate in social care.

Presenter: Margaret Rooney – Deputy Chief Inspector CIW

Heléna Herklots CBE is the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales.The Commissioner’s priorities are:

• Protecting and Promoting Older People’s Rights: To ensure that our rights are upheld as we grow older
• Ending Ageism and Age Discrimination: Ageism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s age and is still very prevalent within society.
• Stopping the Abuse of Older People: Thousands of older people in Wales experience abuse – a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, which causes harm or distress
• Enabling Everyone to Age Well: Ageing well – ‘adding life to years, not just years to life

Presenter: Andrea Cooper: Safeguarding Lead – Older People Commissioner for Wales.

The focus of the event will be to provide education practitioners with an overview of the key responsibilities for education officers within the All Wales Practice Guides which include:

• Safeguarding Children from Child Criminal Exploitation
• Safeguarding Children from Radicalisation

Target audience – Education Practitioners

Wednesday 16^th November 9.30pm – 12.30pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-overview-of-the-all-wales-practice-guides-for-education-officers-tickets-399521217717

It is essential you have access to the All Wales Safeguarding Procedures via the App, or web-link:  www.safeguarding.wales / www.diogelu.cymru to take part in this training.  The Wales Safeguarding Procedures app are available for download via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 

Presented by: Dr Tom Slater / Dr Alyson Rees – Cardiff University

The National Independent Safeguarding Board for Wales commissioned this thematic analysis of Adult Practice Reviews in Wales.

Channel provides support to individuals who are vulnerable to being drawn into any form of terrorism. Their aim is to divert that person from their path of radicalisation before they become involved in any terrorist-related criminal activity.

The Channel process assesses referrals, and when necessary brings together a number of partner agencies, to discuss the concerns raised and organise a bespoke safeguarding support package for the vulnerable individual.

The Channel process is managed by the local authority, in conjunction with the police, on behalf of the Home Office.

The objectives for the workshop include:

Understanding Channel Process;

• Definitions
• Signs of safety
• Referral Pathways
• S36, VAFs, Info Gathering
• Case Management and interventions

Trainer – Chris Williams  

Date – 16/11/2022 10:00am – 3:00pm – Virtual Event

Target Audience – Multi Agencies

Please visit the link to book a place via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/channel-awareness-prevent-training-tickets-427085282577

Most people will have heard of human rights or be familiar with the Human Rights Act 1998. This piece of legislation places a duty on public authorities, to act in a way that is compliant with a person’s human rights.

There remains, however, a lot of discussion and debate as to how certain rights are interpreted, as well as confusion as to what a rights-based approach means in practice for professionals working in this area.

This session will consider in more detail the law around human rights, including some myth-busting about the Human Rights Act itself! It will also look at how the law applies in situations where there are concerns about abuse and neglect of adults, and what a rights-based approach to adult safeguarding might look like.

Celebrating best practice.

Aims of the workshop

To highlight how the Wales Safeguarding Procedures underpins the move away from process-led, target focused safeguarding interventions to a more person-centred approach and to achieve the desired outcomes of the adult, (outcomes that were checked and could change throughout the intervention).

To consider how individuals working engaged in safeguarding activity can demonstrate a person centred approach in practice but also how an organisation can demonstrate a commitment to person centred approaches within safeguarding processes.

Trainer: Vicky Allen

The focus of the event will be to provide education practitioners with an overview of the key responsibilities for education officers within the All Wales Practice Guides which include:

• Safeguarding Children from Child Criminal Exploitation
• Safeguarding Children from Radicalisation

Target audience – Education Practitioners

Monday 14^th November 1.00pm – 4:00 pm

To book a place please click on the Eventbrite link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-overview-of-the-all-wales-practice-guides-for-education-officers-tickets-399475200077

It is essential you have access to the All Wales Safeguarding Procedures via the App, or web-link:  www.safeguarding.wales / www.diogelu.cymru to take part in this training.  The Wales Safeguarding Procedures app are available for download via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 

Lessons from Adult Practice Reviews/Serious Case Reviews show that a lack of professional curiosity and poor coordination of support can lead to poor assessments and intervention measures that can fail to support those at risk of harm and abuse.

This session will look at the importance of curiosity and partnership work in safeguarding adults from serious harm and abuse.

Presenters: Dr Ann Anka (UEA) and Helen Thacker (Norfolk Safeguarding Adults lead)

Whilst many issues arising for safeguarding young people are similar to those for other adults, there are some unique features. The ways in which the gaps between children and adults systems play out through inter-agency and multi-professional working, as well as how “lifestyle choices” of young people are understood and interpreted are key issues.

Target audience includes Adults and Children’s Social Services, Substance Misuse Services, Health, Education, Police, Probation and the Voluntary Sector.

Content: 

• Recognition of the pattern of ‘everyday bruising’ in children
• Recognition of how inflicted bruising in children differs from everyday bruising (include photographic evidence)
• Children with Disabilities and NAI
• Understanding the notion of a ‘sentinel injury’ in child maltreatment
• Other non-accidental injuries and cutaneous mimics
• How to record your findings/ how the medical process/ examination and arriving at a decision about the injury fits in to the wider process of carrying out a safeguarding investigation- the timescales, the need for a clear opinion by medics as it is their opinion that is often the basis of a care order.
• Medical Language / terminology within the NAI process report

Trainers:

• Dr Shiromi Ellis, Consultant Community Paediatrician
• Dr Sian Owen, Associate Specialist in Community Paediatrics
• Dr Ewoud Bos, Consultant Community Paediatrics

Gwynedd and Ynys Mon Multi-agency practitioners Friday 23^rd September 2022 9.30 -12pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recognition-of-physical-abuse-for-gwynedd-ynys-mon-practitioners-tickets-359532771197

Sessions will be held via MS Teams.  Please book on Eventbrite via the links.

Content: 

• Recognition of the pattern of ‘everyday bruising’ in children
• Recognition of how inflicted bruising in children differs from everyday bruising (include photographic evidence)
• Children with Disabilities and NAI
• Understanding the notion of a ‘sentinel injury’ in child maltreatment
• Other non-accidental injuries and cutaneous mimics
• How to record your findings/ how the medical process/ examination and arriving at a decision about the injury fits in to the wider process of carrying out a safeguarding investigation- the timescales, the need for a clear opinion by medics as it is their opinion that is often the basis of a care order.
• Medical Language / terminology within the NAI process report

Trainers: 

• Dr Shiromi Ellis , Consultant Community Paediatrician
• Dr Sian Owen , Associate Specialist in Community Paediatrics
• Dr Ewoud Bos, Consultant Community Paediatrics

Flintshire and Wrexham Multi-agency practitioners – Monday 5^th September 2022 9.30 – 12pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recognition-of-physical-abuse-for-flintshire-wrexham-practitioners-tickets-359529852467

Sessions will be held via MS Teams.  Please book on Eventbrite via the links.

Content:

 Recognition of the pattern of ‘everyday bruising’ in children

• Recognition of how inflicted bruising in children differs from everyday bruising (include photographic evidence)
• Children with Disabilities and NAI
• Understanding the notion of a ‘sentinel injury’ in child maltreatment
• Other non-accidental injuries and cutaneous mimics
• How to record your findings/ how the medical process/ examination and arriving at a decision about the injury fits in to the wider process of carrying out a safeguarding investigation- the timescales, the need for a clear opinion by medics as it is their opinion that is often the basis of a care order.
• Medical Language / terminology within the NAI process report

Trainers:

• Dr Shiromi Ellis, Consultant Community Paediatrician
• Dr Sian Owen, Associate Specialist in Community Paediatrics
• Dr Ewoud Bos, Consultant Community Paediatrics

Conwy and Denbighshire Multi-agency practitioners   

Tuesday 5^th July 2022 – 1.30 – 4pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recognition-of-physical-abuse-for-conwy-denbighshire-practitioners-tickets-359522249727

Sessions will be held via MS Teams.  Please book on Eventbrite via the links.

The North Wales Safeguarding Board is requesting that all agencies / individuals involved in safeguarding work across the region take the opportunity to consult on the National Safeguarding Training Standards.

We want your views and ideas about the proposed national safeguarding training standards, which have been co-produced by a multi-agency national development group and others.

To support the consultation process, the North Wales Safeguarding Board will be holding the following consultation event for the officers/ individuals to input into the consultation:

• Wednesday 8^th June 12pm – 1.15 pm

Target audience

Multi agency practitioners / officers who are involved in safeguarding work on behalf of their organisation.

This event will be an online event via Zoom.  To attend one of these sessions please book via Eventbrite please see link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-safeguarding-training-standards-consultation-event-tickets-321173758357

A copy of the relevant consultation documentation will be sent to you a week before.

The North Wales Safeguarding Board is requesting that all agencies / individuals involved in safeguarding work across the region take the opportunity to consult on the National Safeguarding Training Standards.

We want your views and ideas about the proposed national safeguarding training standards, which have been co-produced by a multi-agency national development group and others.

To support the consultation process, the North Wales Safeguarding Board will be holding the following consultation event for the officers/ individuals to input into the consultation:

• Wednesday 25^th May 12pm – 1.15pm

Target audience   

This event is specifically for individuals working for Voluntary Organisations / Third sector who are involved in safeguarding work

This event will be an online event via Zoom.

To attend this session please book via Eventbrite please see link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-safeguarding-training-consultation-event-vol-orgs-3rd-sector-tickets-321177629937

A copy of the relevant consultation documentation will be sent to you a week before.

The North Wales Safeguarding Board is requesting that all agencies / individuals involved in safeguarding work across the region take the opportunity to consult on the National Safeguarding Training Standards.

We want your views and ideas about the proposed national safeguarding training standards, which have been co-produced by a multi-agency national development group and others.

To support the consultation process, the North Wales Safeguarding Board will be holding the following consultation event for the officers/ individuals to input into the consultation:

• Wednesday 18^th May 12pm – 1.15pm

Target audience

Multi agency practitioners / officers who are involved in safeguarding work on behalf of their organisation.

This event will be an online event via Zoom.  To attend one of these sessions please book via Eventbrite please see link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-safeguarding-training-standards-consultation-event-tickets-321170548757

A copy of the relevant consultation documentation will be sent to you a week before.

An overview of the role of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner and their role in Wales

• Monday 9th May 2022
• 12pm- 1pm
• Presenter: Anna MacGregor
• Lead officer from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Office

If you would like to attend the above please click on the link below to book on Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-overview-of-the-role-of-the-domestic-abuse-commissioner-tickets-259494373657

Date – Thursday 5^th May 2022

Time – 9.30am -12.00pm

Trainer – Professor Michael Preston Shoot

Please click on the link below to book a place on this virtual event

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/effective-work-with-adults-who-self-neglect-evidence-base-from-research-tickets-269538606227

Trainer Sophie Hallett

This workshop will highlight the key findings from the IICSA report and also consider both the research in Wales and also the wider research in the UK, to consider how we can respond to the learning.  This event is for Multi-Agency Practitioners

Date: Tuesday 26^th April

Time: 9.30am – 11.30am

Please book on the event via Eventbrite -see link below

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-review-of-key-findings-from-the-iicsa-report-on-cse-by-organised-networks-tickets-274125104567

The workshop will cover the following key areas:

• The Legal Framework for undertaking Child Practice Reviews
• The different stages of the Child Practice Review Process
• The Role of the Reviewer
• Good Practice

To book a place on this event – please follow the link to Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/role-of-the-child-practice-reviewer-workshop-tickets-259381415797

Role of the Child Practice Reviewer Workshop Eng

This workshop aims to support the implementation of new Wales statutory guidance on safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation (CSE). The session will focus on key areas in the guidance such as understanding CSE as a form of sexual abuse, risk, child centred practice and intervention.

The session will set out key messages and facilitate practical discussion with the aim of supporting practitioners and safeguarding partners when responding to children and young people at risk of or abused through CSE and related safeguarding issues. The session builds on and complements existing resources available through checkyourthinking.org.

The session would welcome frontline practitioners and all those involved in safeguarding children and young people, including foster carers and those working in preventative services.

Trainer:  Dr Sophie Hallett

Dates –   7^th March 9.30am – 1pm   or 14th March 9.30am -1pm

Please click on the links below to book a place for one of the workshops

7^th March 2022 – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overview-of-statutory-guidance-on-safeguarding-cyp-for-sexual-exploitation-tickets-267383309677

14^th March 2022 – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overview-of-statutory-guidance-on-safeguarding-cyp-from-cse-tickets-267392246407

This workshop aims to support the implementation of new Wales statutory guidance on safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation (CSE). The session will focus on key areas in the guidance such as understanding CSE as a form of sexual abuse, risk, child centred practice and intervention.

The session will set out key messages and facilitate practical discussion with the aim of supporting practitioners and safeguarding partners when responding to children and young people at risk of or abused through CSE and related safeguarding issues. The session builds on and complements existing resources available through checkyourthinking.org.

The session would welcome frontline practitioners and all those involved in safeguarding children and young people, including foster carers and those working in preventative services.

Trainer:  Dr Sophie Hallett

Dates –   7^th March 9.30am – 1pm   or 14th March 9.30am -1pm

Please click on the links below to book a place for one of the workshops

 7^th March 2022 – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overview-of-statutory-guidance-on-safeguarding-cyp-for-sexual-exploitation-tickets-267383309677

14^th March 2022 – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overview-of-statutory-guidance-on-safeguarding-cyp-from-cse-tickets-267392246407

28/01/2021 12:00 – 13:00

Workshop and Training Flyer

Safeguarding Children living with Foster Carers, Adopters and Special Guardians: Learning from Case reviews.

The Workshop provides an overview of the key themes from the results of a UK-wide study of 52 case reviews concerning 98 children who had died or experienced serious harm while living with foster carers, adopters or special guardians. It identifies a series of relevant and recurring themes relating to professional culture, systems and practice that can hinder practitioners and organisations from safeguarding children effectively.

Workshop

Friday 19th November 1pm -3pm

Trainers: Paul Jones and Val Owen

To be held via Zoom. To book a place, please click on the link for Eventbrite.Safeguarding Children living with Foster Carers – flyer

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Working with fathers in child protection

Working with fathers in child protection: good practice and learning from practice reviews

Friday 19th November 9.30am -11.30am

Trainer: Paul Jones

To be held via Zoom

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Failure to engage with fathers and father figures has been evidenced in research and case reviews for decades.
The workshop will help to:
 Greater knowledge of the learning from practice reviews concerning engagement with fathers

 Good practice tips when working with fathers / father figures

To book a place please click on the Eventbrite link.
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Learning workshops for Education and Early year providers on the New All Wales Safeguarding Children Procedures

November 2021 15 and 18 Learning Workshops for Education and Early Years Providers

Please see refer to attached flyer for further information about the workshop and please click the link above to book a place via Eventbrite
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Impact of Covid 19 and what it has taught us about Adult Safeguarding

Thursday 18th November 9.30am -11.30am

Impact of Covid 19 and what it has taught us about Adult SafeguardingZoom

Dr Laura Pritchard-JonesImpact of Covid 19 and what it has taught us about Adult Safeguarding
Lecturer in Law
Programme Director, MA Safeguarding Adults: Law, Policy, and Practice

To book a place on this event, please click on the Eventbrite link
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Child Sexual Abuse learning from research_

Child Sexual Abuse –Latest Research

Thursday 18th November 2021

9.30am -11.30am

Via Zoom

Trainer – Nici Evans

The Centre for Child Sexual Abuse will provide an overview of the latest research and findings including
 Sibling Abuse
 Scale and Nature of CSA in Wales
 Wales Case File study findings

To book a place please click on the link for Eventbrite.
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18 November 2021
12.30-16.05
The Right to be Safe- preventing and responding to child sexual abuse and exploitation in Wales
The Welsh Government is presenting a remote digital conference and learning event on the afternoon of 18 November as part of National Safeguarding Week 2021.
The conference will include presentations from:
– Julie Morgan, Deputy Minister for Social Services
– May Baxter-Thornton and Emma Lewis, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Victims and Survivors Consultative Panel (VSCP)
– Adam Richard Kaps, Youth Worker and Survivor
– Anna Glinski, Deputy Director (Knowledge and Practice Development) Centre of Expertise on child sexual abuse

– Karen Bamford, Independent Safeguarding & Reviewing Officer, Safeguarding Team

– Deborah Job, Section Manager, Family Support South & East Conwy, Family Centre

– Dr Sophie Hallett, Cardiff University

– Sharron Wareham, Better Futures, Service Manager, Barnardo’s Cymru

– Claire Short , Stop it Now Wales, Wales National Manager

– Tessa Hodgson, National Independent Safeguarding Board

– Albert Heaney, Chief Social Care Officer for Wales

The Right to be Safe- preventing and responding to child sexual abuse and exploitation in Wales
Cofrestru/Registration
Dilynwch y ddolen i gofrestru ar gyfer y digwyddiad /Follow link to register for event
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/18 Tachwedd/18 November
Dyddiad cau i gofrestru 28 Hydref/Deadline to register 28 October
Rhaeadrwch i’ch rhwydweithiau os gwelwch yn dda/Please cascade to your networks
Privacy Notice (V1-Eng) – CSAE Event November 2021

The Rise and Rise of Institutional Abuse

Margaret Flynn

Wednesday 17 November 2021

09:30-10:30

Online via Eventbrite

To book a place on this event- please click on the link for Eventbrite
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Carrying out and recording capacity assessments
Wednesday 17 November 2021
1.30pm – 3.30pm

Trainer-
Neil Allen Essex Chambers

Via Zoom – link will be sent out nearer the date

To book a place on this event – please click on the link for Eventbrite
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North Wales Safeguarding Board conference

‘Celebrating good practice in the Region’

Tuesday 16th November 9.30am -12.30pm

Please click on the Eventbrite link to register your place.

To be held via Zoom

Learning workshops for Education and Early year providers on the New All Wales Safeguarding Children Procedures November 2021 15 and 18 Learning Workshops for Education and Early Years Providers

Please refer to attached flyer for more information and click on the link above to book via Eventbrite.

Please note: This event is managed through Eventbrite, and you may encounter difficulties booking a ticket if you use Internet Explorer. Eventbrite recommends using Chrome or Firefox.

Transitional Safeguarding: adolescence to adulthood

Dez Holmes Director of Research in Practice

Monday 15 November 2021

14:00-15:00

Via Zoom

To book a place on this event- please click on the link for Eventbrite
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Diogelu Trosiannol – Transitional Safeguarding

An overview of the role of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner
and their role in Wales

Monday 15 November 2021

10.30am -11.30am

Presenter: Anna MacGregor

Lead officer from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Office

Please note: This event is managed through Eventbrite, and you may encounter difficulties booking a ticket if you use Internet Explorer. Eventbrite recommends using Chrome or Firefox.

Monday 15^th November 12.30pm – 2pm – Via Zoom

In January 2020 the Senedd passed the Welsh Government’s Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 (“the Act”). The overarching aim is to help protect children’s rights and give all children in Wales the best start in life. The Act received Royal Assent on 20 March 2020 and there now follows a comprehensive multi-media stakeholder and public awareness campaign before the Act comes into force on 21^st March 2022. Once the law commences Wales will join over 55 nations across the globe who have already outlawed physical punishment towards a child.

Aims and Objectives of Event

To promote and raise awareness of the forthcoming change in legislation in Wales in respect of the Children (Abolition of the Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 and what this means in practice for Children, Parents, Carers, Professionals/Practitioners and our communities in Wales. The event/seminar is a collaboration between the 6 Regional Safeguarding Boards for Children in Wales as part of National Safeguarding Week events and will provide participants with information via a video presentation followed by a panel Q and A session made up of those with expert knowledge in this area and who have been actively involved in the development of the legislation.

Target Audience

All professionals/ practitioners across agencies who have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people in Wales. This includes, teachers, police officers, social workers, health professionals, probation officers and those providing services and working in third sector and voluntary organisations in our communities.

Welsh Government would be happy to collate and theme any questions received before the event – these can be directed to our dedicated mailbox End Physical Punishment – Stopio Cosbi Corfforol: EndPhysicalPunishment@gov.wales

Welsh Language translation facilities will be available at the event.

This practice guidance applies to all partner agencies of the North Wales Safeguarding Children’s Board.  Its aim is to ensure that all agencies are aware of how to undertake safeguarding responsibilities in respect to the risk and need of unborn babies, including concealed pregnancies.

The NWSCB will be holding events with the trainer Bruce Thornton to promote awareness of this practice guidance on the following dates, to book please visit:

• 28th October 09:30 – 12:30 for Conwy & Denbighshire Multi-agency practitioners: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nwscb-practice-guidance-pre-birth-risk-awareness-raising-central-area-tickets-169131138789

This practice guidance applies to all partner agencies of the North Wales Safeguarding Children’s Board.  Its aim is to ensure that all agencies are aware of how to undertake safeguarding responsibilities in respect to the risk and need of unborn babies, including concealed pregnancies.

The NWSCB will be holding events with the trainer Bruce Thornton to promote awareness of this practice guidance on the following dates, to book please visit:

• 21st October 13:30 – 16:30 for Gwynedd & Ynys Mon Multi-agency practitioners (translation facilities will be available): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nwscb-practice-guidance-pre-birth-risk-awareness-raising-west-tickets-169133668355

This practice guidance applies to all partner agencies of the North Wales Safeguarding Children’s Board.  Its aim is to ensure that all agencies are aware of how to undertake safeguarding responsibilities in respect to the risk and need of unborn babies, including concealed pregnancies.

The NWSCB will be holding events with the trainer Bruce Thornton to promote awareness of this practice guidance on the following dates, to book please visit:

• 20th October 09:30 – 12:30 for Wrexham & Flintshire Multi-agency practitioners: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nwscb-practice-guidance-pre-birth-risk-awareness-raising-east-tickets-169132982303

Supporting children on return from a missing episode

12^th October 2021 from 11am – 1:30pm

This short session introduces the process of delivering return home interviews to children missing from home and residential care based on statutory guidance in England, Scotland, and Wales.

If you have any questions about this training, please contact: consultancy@missingpeople.org.uk

For more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/return-home-interview-training-supporting-children-on-return-tickets-167704072395

Digwyddiad Diogelu Cyd-destunol – Contextual Safeguarding Event

Contextual Safeguarding and the Wales Legislative Framework

This webinar, presented by Dr Carlene Firmin on behalf of the six Safeguarding Boards in Wales, gives an overview of the Contextual Safeguarding Approach and considers how it can be linked into the Wales Legislative Framework to help safeguarding young people at risk of extra familial harm.

Please note: This event is managed through Eventbrite, and you may encounter difficulties booking a ticket if you use Internet Explorer. Eventbrite recommends using Chrome or Firefox.

The event will be held on the following two dates:

Friday 24th Sept: 10:00 – 11:30 – via Zoom – Translation Facilities will be available
To book a place for the webinar on the 24th – please click on the link for Eventbrite

Or

Friday 1st Oct: 11:30 – 13:00 – via MS Teams
To book a place for the webinar on the 1st –please click on the link for Eventbrite

Child Practice Learning Event for Education_

This webinar is an opportunity for Education Practitioners across North Wales to hear some key messages around lessons learnt in relation to a recent North Wales Child Practice Review.

Date: 30/9/21
Time: 11.00am -12.30pm
Presenter: Val Owen (CPR reviewer)
Via Zoom – translation facilities will be available

To book a place on the course – please click on the Eventbrite link

Contextual Safeguarding and the Wales Legislative Framework

This webinar, presented by Dr Carlene Firmin on behalf of the six Safeguarding Boards in Wales, gives an overview of the Contextual Safeguarding Approach and considers how it can be linked into the Wales Legislative Framework to help safeguarding young people at risk of extra familial harm.

Please note: This event is managed through Eventbrite, and you may encounter difficulties booking a ticket if you use Internet Explorer. Eventbrite recommends using Chrome or Firefox.

The event will be held on the following two dates:

Friday 24th Sept: 10:00 – 11:30 – via Zoom – Translation Facilities will be available

To book a place for the webinar on the 24th – please click on the link for Eventbrite

Or
Friday 1st Oct: 11:30 – 13:00 – via MS Teams
To book a place for the webinar on the 1st –please click on
the link for EventbriteDigwyddiad Diogelu Cyd-destunol – Contextual Safeguarding Event

Transforming services and support for older people experiencing abuseTransforming Services and Support for older people experiencing abuse

Please refer to attached flyer for further information.

Child sexual abuse prevention multi-agency webinar
Please choose one date:

Tuesday 18th May 2021
Wednesday 16th June 2021
Wednesday 19th May 2021
Tuesday 22nd June 2021*
*session order has been switched

Wales May-June leaflet (002)

You are invited to attend our free webinar funded by the Welsh Government.

To book your place please see attached flyer for more information or click on the above link.

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse and the Stop It Now! Helpline (presented by Tom Squire)
10 am – 12 noon

Session Summary:
This webinar will help participants understand
the issues surrounding child sexual
abuse, the thought processes of perpetrators
and the importance of our work. The
session will cover:
• The scale and nature of child sexual
abuse in the UK
• The process through which adults
commit sexual offences
• The public health model of child sexual
abuse prevention
• The Stop It Now! helpline
• Developing secondary prevention:
LFF’s deterrence campaign and online
resources.

Tom Squire MA, BSc, Diploma in Probation Studies is Clinical Manager at The Lucy Faithful Foundation, where he has worked since 2007. Before joining The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, he worked within the Probation Service. Tom undertakes specialist risk assessments for a range of agencies, and provides training, advice and consultancy to other professionals. He provides clinical support to the Stop It Now! Helpline.

Tom plays an important part in promoting The Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s deterrence campaign regarding the viewing of indecent images of children and, in 2018, he led on the development of an online forum for family and friends of those who have sexually offended online.

Understanding Problematic Sexual Behaviour in Young Children (presented by Dr Ian Burke)
1 pm – 3 pm

Session Summary:
This webinar will explore the topic of problematic sexual behaviour (PSB) in young children. Starting with an overview, the webinar will:
• Outline the aetiology of problematic sexual behaviour
• Discuss what is healthy sexual behaviour versus what is problematic and concerning
• How we address these behaviours.
• The webinar will then use Dr Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory to help us understand the specific needs of children displaying PSB who have experienced their own trauma.

Dr Ian Burke is a Registered Clinical & Forensic Psychologist (HCPC) and Chartered Psychologist (BPS). He joined The Lucy Faithfull Foundation in 2020 where his work focuses on the provision of assessment and interventions relating to problematic sexual behaviour in children and their families where trauma is a significant contributing factor. Before joining LFF, Ian worked with Forensic CAMHS and with Action for Children’s High Intensity Placement Support Service for Looked after Children. Ian also has extensive experience working as a Military Psychologist with the Irish Defence Forces.

For more information please contact:
Claire Short on 07720590129 or cshort@lucyfaithfull.org.uk
Gill Jones on 07803629628 or gjones@lucyfaithfull.org.uk

Abuse Event Flyer

Transforming services and support for older people experiencing abuse

Webinar Event: Tuesday 30 March, 10.00-11.30am

Join the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales to explore the findings of her research into the services and support for older people experiencing or at risk of abuse, and the ways we can work together to ensure older people throughout Wales can access the help they may need.

As part of the event, we’ll be hearing from an older domestic abuse survivor, who will share her experiences of leaving an abusive relationship and discuss the difficulties she faced in finding and accessing the right support.

The Commissioner will also be joined by expert speakers to examine the types of services currently available, the specific issues and challenges that can prevent older people from getting help and support, and the good practice underway that is making a positive difference.

An interactive discussion and Q&A session with an expert panel will bring the event to a close, giving delegates an opportunity to ask questions and share their views about the action needed to transform services and support for older people experiencing abuse.

Speakers

Heléna Herklots CBE, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
Dr. Norma Barry and Rhian Bowen-Davies, Inside Out Organisational Solutions
Nicole Jacobs, Designate Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales

Panel Members

Rhian Bowen-Davies, Independent Consultant, Inside Out Organisational Solutions
Albert Heaney, Deputy Director General, Welsh Government
Ann Williams, Live Fear Free Helpline Manager, Welsh Women’s Aid
Rachael Nicholson, Director, Hourglass Cymru (formerly Action on Elder Abuse Cymru)

To book your place at the webinar, register by clicking on the link above:

Please see below an invitation to a National County Lines Co-Ordination Centre conference.

The ‘Tackling County Lines, a proactive safeguarding approach’ event is a FREE 2 day conference hosted by the National County Lines Coordination Centre.

The conference is available to all agencies to attend and will take place on 23rd and 24th March.

Thereafter, all the material will be available to view on demand. (A link to the website where the content will be available will be sent out following the event).
It will be particularly useful for law enforcement staff, decision makers, frontline practitioners and their managers.

This event will provide knowledge and understanding of county lines criminality, including exploitation of both children and vulnerable adults. It will provide attendees with practical guidance and advice, understanding of best practice in terms of both tackling offending and safeguarding victims, which will assist them in providing appropriate support and interventions.

Key topics include:
 Section 45 Defence and the NRM
 Tackling Cuckooing
 Managing complex safeguarding
 Use of civil orders
 Tackling transportation
 Tactical options
 County lines lived experience

Please register using the link below, using your work email address. Please ensure that you add the event to your calendar. A timetable will be shared after you have registered, so that you can select which presentations you would like to attend. There will be opportunities to ask questions.

https://warwick.ac.uk/services/conferences/external-events/tackling-county-lines

Please share this link with your colleagues, there are no limitations around numbers of attendees and we want to reach as many people as possible!

Flyer – Intra-familial CSA training Wales Flyer Multi-agency

For more information please click on the attached flyer.

Please click on Eventbrite link to register your place.

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Stop It Now have organised Child sexual abuse prevention multi-agency webinars.

Please choose one date/To book your place please register via the link on the attached flyer:
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Monday 1st March 2021
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Wednesday 3rd March 2021

You are invited to attend a free webinar funded by the Welsh Government.

Please find attached flyers for Stop It Now’s forthcoming one-day child sexual abuse prevention multi-agency webinars. This also relates to Objective 3 -Increased awareness of how help to keep children safe from CSA for parent/carers, practitioners and the public which is part of the National Action Plan on preventing and responding to child sexual abuse.

We are hosting four, one day webinars which due to Welsh Government funding are free for participants to attend:
Tuesday 23rd February 2021, Wednesday 24th February 2021, Monday 1st March 2021, and Wednesday 3rd March 2021.
The webinars are repeated, so you only need to book onto one event.

Webinar presenters are Tom Squire Clinical Manager and Dr Ian Burke Registered Clinical & Forensic Psychologist both with the Lucy Faithfull Foundation.

Information and a booking link are included in the flyer. Please do not request to book via email, using link on the flyer will ensure that your place is registered.

Once you have registered for a place, you should receive a confirmation email back within two weeks, allocating you a place. Places are limited and allocation will be made on an equal basis to all services and organisations. You need to be employed and/or delivering services within Wales to attend one of these webinars.

STEPPING STONES NORTH WALES OUTREACH AND AWARENESS OF CSA

As part of Sexual Violence Awareness Week, new dates for our outreach and awareness sessions, free of charge and now available on:
Friday 19th February 2.30pm -3.30pm
Tuesday March 2nd 10.30am -11.30am
Friday 12th March 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Thursday 25th March 10.30am – 11.30am

With funding from the PPT, Stepping Stones will be working with professional groups, communities and individuals across North Wales to deliver these workshops.

Engaging with Victims & Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.

A workshop & information sharing event intended to:
 Better inform people who have a greater chance than usual of interacting with victims & survivors of child sexual abuse in ways that may unintentionally distress, trigger or re-traumatise them.
 Give relevant people more confidence in interacting appropriately and compassionately with victims & survivors.
 Acknowledge & reduce the potential for victims & survivors to become isolated & to increase the potential for them to engage with services that are beneficial to their health & wellbeing.
 Inform people of the services that Stepping Stones offers & how these services may be helpful.
The virtual session by Zoom is anticipated to last for around 1 hour & is being delivered at no cost –
PATHWAYS FOR SERVICE USERS poster landscape
please register interest by e-mail to shirley@steppingstonesnorthwales.co.uk

Please book early; thank you

GamCare would like to invite you to attend our free training on the topic of Women and Problem Gambling.

Below is a list of sessions scheduled for Wales in February and March 2021.

Multiple dates are available.

Registration takes place on Eventbrite. Joining instructions will be provided nearer the time of the event.

Please feel free to share with colleagues and partners who may benefit from the training.

17th February 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm
18th February 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm
24th February 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm
25th February 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm
2nd March 2021 from 1 – 3 pm
4th March 2021 from 10am – 12 pm
10th March 2021 from 10am – 12 pm
12th March 2021 from 10am – 12 pm
17th March 2021 from 10am – 12 pm
18th March 2021 from 10am – 12 pm
25th March 2021 from 10am – 12 pm
31st March 2021 from 10am – 12 pm

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For more information on these events please click on the attached flyer.

Dear all,

An introduction to The Children’s Society and NWG’s Missing Children Response Assessment Tool: a webinar for local safeguarding partners.

The Children’s Society, working with NWG, have developed the Missing Children Response Assessment Tool to help local safeguarding partnerships, or relevant equivalent, to think holistically about the responses they provide to children who go missing from home or care and set actions for positive change.

Join this introductory session to hear more about why they developed the tool, how it can be used, and hear from representatives in areas who have already piloted the tool speak about how it has helped them improve their response to missing children.

The link to the webinar to launch the benchmarking tool: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-the-missing-children-response-assessment-tool-tickets-132300338875

The webinar will be hosted between 10:00-11:30am on Wednesday 13th January.

WALES SAFEGUARDING PROCEDURES – SECTION 5 WORKSHOP

Aim of the workshop: To support those managing/ chairing section 5 meetings in accordance with the Wales Safeguarding Procedures and the North Wales
Safeguarding Board Practice Guide.

Target Group: The workshop will be aimed at Senior Officers in North Wales who are responsible for chairing Section 5 meetings and/or are responsible for managing the Section 5 process within their organisation. Please do not apply for the workshop unless you meet the criteria

Workshop Agenda:

 Overview of Section 5 of the Wales Safeguarding Procedures
 Overview of the North Wales Safeguarding Board Section 5 Practice Guide
 Summary of key changes to the processes for handling allegations against professionals

Key challenges

 Adults Services

 Children’s Services

Workshop Outcomes: By the end of the workshop participants will have:

Developed an understanding of national and local guidance in relation to Managing allegations/concerns around practitioners in a position of trust

Considered the employers role and responsibilities and be clear about what to do if an allegation or concern is received about a member of staff or volunteer

Understood the role of the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)

Explored how the three processes of social care enquiries, police criminal process, and the employers’ responsibilities work together

Identified amendments/ improvements to the national and local guidance that are required to ensure Section 5 of the procedures are appropriately and effectively implemented in practice

Workshop Timings: The workshop will be delivered between 9:30 and 13:00 on Friday 20th November 2020

Delivery of the sessions will be through the medium of English and using the ZOOM online platform. Details to be confirmed.

Cwrs / Course: Llinellau Cyffuriau / County Lines
Dyddiad / Date: 20/11/2020
Amser / Time: 11.30yb/am – 1.30yp/pm
Lleoliad / Venue: Ar lein drwy Zoom / Online via ZoomFlyer – County Lines – Bilingual

“Together we will keep people safe”

Session will be delivered via zoom.
Register your interest by emailing mail@cvsc.org.uk or calling 01492 534091

Please see attached flyer for further information.

CVSC Safeguarding Information Poster

Date – Wednesday 18th November Time – 10.30am – 12.00pm
Delivery of the sessions will be through the medium of English and using the ZOOM online platform.

Target audience- Care Providers Registered Managers and Staff across Wales

The online workshop will cover the following key areas:

 The purpose of an Adult Practice review
 Overview of the Key Practice themes identified from Adult Practice Reviews for Care Providers
 How the actions identified from Adult Practice Reviews have been implemented into practice
 Update on key National Developments around Adult Safeguarding Procedures

Taflen Hyfforddiant – Training Flyer

Cwrs / Course:
Negeseuon i ddysgu o’r Adolygiad Ymarfer Plant Wrecsam (CPR Wrecsam)
Learning lessons from the Wrexham Child Practice Review (CPR Wrexham)

Dyddiad / Date:
18/11/2020

Amser / Time: 2:00yh/pm – 16:30yh/pm
Via: Zoom

Bydd angen darparu cyfeiriad e-bost y mynychwr er mwyn cael mynediad i’r sesiwn ar-lein
Attendee e-mail address must to be provided in order to access online session

Am fwy o wybodaeth gwelwch y daflen uchod/For more information please see attached flyer.

Os oes diddordeb, bydd angen cysylltu gyda/If interested contact: CareworkforceGweithlugofal@ynysmon.gov.uk

Keeping Children Safe

Free online sessions for parents and professionals in Conwy County

Parents Protect: Wednesday 18^th November 2020 10am – 12

An easy to follow two hour zoom session to talk about keeping children safe from sexual abuse.

To book gjones@stopitnow.org.uk

Shaping the Future of Safeguarding in Wales

A Conference to mark National Safeguarding Week, hosted by the National Independent Safeguarding Board, in association with the Wales Violence Prevention Unit.

Tuesday 17th November
10:00 – 12:00
The Conference will be hosted on Microsoft Teams.

Dear colleagues,

To mark National Safeguarding Week 2020, the National Independent Safeguarding Board, in partnership with The Violence Prevention Unit, are pleased to announce an online conference: Shaping the Future of Safeguarding in Wales.

At the Conference, Dr Michelle McManus, Head of Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University, will share findings from the recent Multi-Agency Operational Safeguarding Arrangements (MAOSA) Phase I report.

You will also hear from speakers from the National Probation Service on the collaborative approach to managing domestic abuse cases during the coronavirus pandemic, and from the Wales Violence Prevention Unit on taking a public health approach to violence prevention.

Please Register on Eventbrite by following the link above.

Conference programme:
Welcome, Jane Randall, Chair, National Independent Safeguarding Board

Presentations from:
Dr. Michelle McManus, Head of Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University
Amaladipa Remigio, Head of Public Protection, National Probation Service – Wales
Jonathan Drake, Director, Wales Violence Prevention Unit

Question and Answer session

We hope you can join us for this informative session.
Jane Randall
Chair
National Independent Safeguarding Board

The Conference will be hosted on Microsoft Teams.
Please ensure you have entered your email address correctly on registration, as this will be used to send you a link to join the Conference nearer the time.

Think Family Approach

As part of National Safeguarding Week, the North Wales Safeguarding Board will be holding a virtual workshop on the learning from a national review undertaken by Dr Michael Preston Shoot in relation to Think Family approach. Recent learning from a Child Practice Review highlighted the impact of parental self-neglect on the child.

Situations when a Think Family approach is needed:

Families with adults and children, where adult and children services need to work in partnership with each other as well as in partnership with the family to ensure that all members of the family’s needs are met effectively.

Intergenerational families consisting of all adults, e.g. older parent/s living with adult children with mental health needs/learning and/or physical disabilities. As people are living longer and are supported in the community rather than institutions intergenerational families are becoming more common.

Families with multiple needs (e.g. educational, health, and social) with large numbers of agencies working with them. The issue here is about working in a way that is family led and best meets the needs of the family.

Trainer: Michael Preston Shoot

Target audience: Multi Agency Practitioners in the North Wales Safeguarding Board Region

Date – Monday 16th November 2020

Time 9.30am – 12.30pm

The North Wales Safeguarding Board will send in log in details nearer the time to access the event

PFAN (Parent, Family & Allies Network) are hosting an event supported by NPT in support of parent advocacy.

Join us for wonderful webinar event on 16 November 2020 on parent advocacy in child protection. Voices from both UK and US. Online and free, hosted by @PFAN_UK. Learn how parent advocacy creates better outcomes for children and families #parentadvocacy. For further information please contact Fiona Macleod f.macleod@npt.gov.uk or click on the link to register your place via Eventbrite.

‘The Betrayed Girls’
Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Wednesday 21 October 2020, 6.30-9.30pm BST
Online via YouTube and Zoom

SHaME Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Ruth Beecher is presenting ‘The Betrayed Girls’ – Film Screening & Panel Discussion. Led by a panel including Ruth, consultant community paediatrician Dr Deborah Hodes, director working on young people’s services Bose Onaboye, historian Dr Sarah Marks, and the film’s acclaimed director Henry Singer, this event will bring together academics, activists and practitioners to explore visions of a future in which we can better respond to what children disclose about sexual abuse.

To register to attend, please visit Bloomsbury Festival’s website – details below:

The Betrayed Girls – Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Barnardo’s Cymru in partnership with the Cardiff University and the Welsh Government invite you to the digital Gwella – Trauma Informed Practice conference.
When: 15/10/2020 10am – 1pm
Sign up: www.barnardoscymruhub.org.uk once you log in and hover over “Gwella Digital Conference 2020” there will be a drop down option to head to the main presentation page to see the morning agenda. The workshop pages and resources will go live on 15/10.
Chair: Dr Samantha Clutton, Senior Policy Manager Children’s Safeguarding, Welsh Government
Keynote speakers: Dr Sophie Hallett, Cardiff University; Ceri Evans, Barnardo’s Cymru; Jonny Matthew, Social Work Consultant and co-author of the Trauma Recovery Model; Cath Nickling, Headteacher, Waun Wen Primary School and Bryn Morgan, Gwella
Workshops:
• Using PACE and Relationship Based Play in Work with Families – Dr Vivian Norris, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
• The Polyvagal Theory in Practice – Dr Ian Burke, Clinical Psychologist
• Gwella, earlier intervention for children who have experienced developmental trauma – Rebecca Jones, Barnardo’s Cymru trauma informed consultant
Over the past four years the Gwella project has sought to develop an evidence-based earlier intervention model for the multi-agency workforce that work with children who have experienced childhood trauma. This conference will be an opportunity to showcase the results of this work and also to explore the challenges and the benefits of trauma informed practice for practitioners, managers and senior leaders alike.
Whether you work in social care, education, health or youth justice this conference will be relevant to your work. Please feel free to share with your colleagues and teams.

Time: 4.30pm – 5.30pm

This webinar event will provide an opportunity for health and care workers and those from other sectors (finance, legal, police, housing) and third sector organisations to discuss the challenges raised by the current crisis.

Places are limited:

To register for a place, please visit https://essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jqZTQmgvRwmcFTw-8EVT5A

The North Wales Safeguarding Children’s Board are inviting Local Authority Education Practitioners / Designated Safeguarding Leads/ Independent Schools / School Governors/ Safeguarding Leads in Colleges and Safeguarding Leads in Early Year’s provision to these learning workshops to consider the requirements set out around the role of Education Professionals within the new All Wales Safeguarding Children procedures:

 Understand the legal framework in relation to the Procedures

 How the key concepts from the Social Services and Well-being Act are underpinning the New Safeguarding Children Procedures

 Brief Overview of each section within the Safeguarding Children Procedures (explaining the journey of child through the child protection process)

 Highlighting the key practice changes

 A focus on the section on Safeguarding allegations/ concerns about practitioners and those in positions of trust

The workshops are to be held on 17.3.20, 18.3.20 and 19.3.20.
Please click on the link below for your preferred date/venue below:
17.3.20 Galeri, Doc Victoria, Caernarfon
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-workshops-for-education-and-early-year-providers-tickets-87435216085

18.3.20 Glyndwr University, Mold Road, Wrecsam
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-workshops-for-education-and-early-year-providers-tickets-87435886089

19.3.20 Rhyl Rugby Club, Tynewydd Road, Rhyl
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-workshops-for-education-and-early-year-providers-tickets-87436305343

Time
9.30am – 1.30pm

DIARY MARKER – Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being ActDIARY MARKER – Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being Act [Easy Read]

Learning Workshops for Adult Care/ Nursing Home Managers / Responsible Individuals and Domiciliary Care Managers on the New All Wales Adult Safeguarding Procedures

The purpose of these Learning and Awareness Workshops is to:
 Understand the legal framework in relation to the Procedures

 How the key concepts from the Social Services and Well-being Act are underpinning the New Adult Safeguarding Procedures

 Overview of each section within the Adult Safeguarding Procedures (explaining the journey of Adult through the adult protection process)

 Highlighting the key practice changes

 A focus on the section on Safeguarding allegations/ concerns about practitioners and those in positions of trust

The North Wales Safeguarding Children’s Board and NSPCC are delighted to have the Centre of Expertise on child sexual abuse present at the next Community of Practice Event on:

• Thursday the 27^th of February at Rhyl Rugby Club.

 Overview

• Research around risk assessment tools and the use of such tools in practice.
• Recognising CSA and raising awareness amongst key professionals to identify and respond to CSA. Information will be provided about the LEADS programme and the feasibility of delivering this in Wales as a regional programme.
• Findings from the recent research around LA records in Wales around capturing CSA data: Uncovering the scale of child sexual abuse in social care records
• The role of the CSA Centre in supporting the delivery of the Wales National CSA Action Plan

Speakers include:

• Lisa McCrindle, Kairika Karsna, Anna Gilinski  – Centre of Expertise on CSA
• Dr Sophie Hallett, Cardiff University

Book a place via Eventbrite only using the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nwscb-nspcc-community-of-practice-event-tickets-90794822759

Learning Workshops for Adult Care/ Nursing Home Managers / Responsible Individuals and Domiciliary Care Managers on the New All Wales Adult Safeguarding Procedures

The purpose of these Learning and Awareness Workshops is to:
 Understand the legal framework in relation to the Procedures

 How the key concepts from the Social Services and Well-being Act are underpinning the New Adult Safeguarding Procedures

 Overview of each section within the Adult Safeguarding Procedures (explaining the journey of Adult through the adult protection process)

 Highlighting the key practice changes

 A focus on the section on Safeguarding allegations/ concerns about practitioners and those in positions of trust

Learning Workshops for Adult Care/ Nursing Home Managers / Responsible Individuals and Domiciliary Care Managers on the New All Wales Adult Safeguarding Procedures

The purpose of these Learning and Awareness Workshops is to:
 Understand the legal framework in relation to the Procedures

 How the key concepts from the Social Services and Well-being Act are underpinning the New Adult Safeguarding Procedures

 Overview of each section within the Adult Safeguarding Procedures (explaining the journey of Adult through the adult protection process)

 Highlighting the key practice changes

 A focus on the section on Safeguarding allegations/ concerns about practitioners and those in positions of trust

Barnardo’s Cymru in partnership with the Welsh Government would like to invite you to the second annual Reflect Conference

Moving forward with hope

Date:          13 February 2020

Venue:       Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

The Reflect programme supports women and their partners that have had one or more children removed through care proceedings and are at high risk of having further children that could be subject to the same experience. Reflect delivers intensive, long term support to these women and their partners offering practical, social and therapeutic support with a focus on the development of new skills and taking positive steps for the future.

Keynote speakers: Professor Karen Broadhurst & Dr Claire Mason, University of Lancaster

The aims of the conference will be to:

• Hear directly from Reflect service users
• Share the impact and positive progress that the Reflect project has enabled or supported
• Discuss best practice and common challenges in relation to working with women and men involved in child care proceedings
• Share the evaluation from Cascade’s evaluation report of the Reflect delivery model

Please cascade to your contacts and networks, as appropriate.  Please book via Eventbrite

Reflect conference

National Conference on Child Sexual Abuse in association with NSPCC on Thursday 13 February 2020 9am – 4:00pm.

The conference is aimed at professionals and organisations involved in preventing, addressing and prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) cases, and aims to strengthen the approach to CSA, to prevent CSA and to better support victims.

Please find attached information regarding the conference. If you have any questions or would like to reserve a place, please contact Katrina Hickey on 029 2267 5100 or email hjconference@hughjames.com.

We hope to see you on the day.

Conference 13 Feb 2020

National Safeguarding Adults Confernce 2020National Safeguarding Conference

Working Together to Safeguard Adults

Time – 09:30 – 15:30

Date – 6 February 2020

Location Glyndwr University, Mold Road, Wrexham, Wales, LL11 2AW

Time – 09:30 – 15:30

This free event is open to safeguarding partners, organisations and practitioners working with adults at risk in Wales.

Speakers on the day will include –

• Jane Randall, Chair of the National Independent Safeguarding Board

• Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services

• Helena Herklots, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales

• Jan Sensier, Deputy Director of Strategy and Corporate Services, Office of the Public Guardian

• Louise Hughes, Golden Thread Advocacy Programme Manager, Age Cymru

• Learning Disability Wales

Workshops will be provided by All Wales Adult Safeguarding Leads Network, Social Care Wales, North Wales Adults Safeguarding Board and the Welsh Government.

Training Event

Gwella – working with children who have experienced developmental trauma
(1 day free training course)

Learning Outcomes
• To understand what is meant by ‘developmental trauma’ and how this impacts child development
• Using a trauma-informed approach to support children who have experienced developmental trauma
• Practice lessons from the Gwella research project

Target Group
Multi agency training designed for all practitioners working with children and young people

Refreshments
Tea and coffee
Lunch provided

For booking contact: via Eventbrite – please click on the link below

Barnardo’s Cymru Gwella Project Training Event

Gwella – working with children who have experienced developmental trauma
(1 day free training course)

Learning Outcomes
• To understand what is meant by ‘developmental trauma’ and how this impacts child development
• Using a trauma-informed approach to support children who have experienced developmental trauma
• Practice lessons from the Gwella research project

Target Group
Multi agency training designed for all practitioners working with children and young people

Refreshments
Tea and coffee
Lunch provided

For booking contact: via Eventbrite via the link below

We are keen to bring people together to make sure safeguarding remains at the heart of everything we do. Join us at our stakeholder event!

About this Event

We’re excited to announce that the tickets for this year’s annual stakeholder events are now available.

The stakeholder events that took place last year were a great success. Since then, we have published our Safeguarding Strategy and the OPG Business Plan for 2019 to 2020. We are keen to bring people together to make sure safeguarding remains at the heart of everything we do. We want to keep step with changes in society and continue with our exciting service transformation work.

So how do we manage this change? How do we make sure we continue to make our services accessible to those who need it and protect adults at risk?

We cannot do this on our own. We want to understand what is important to you so we can continue to work together and make an impact in the safeguarding arena. To this end, we sent you a survey some time ago. Thank you for your response. We have now considered your feedback and have based this year’s stakeholder events on the outcome of that survey.

Similar to last year, this year’s events will be held in London, Leeds and Cardiff. We hope you join us so that we can continue to work collaboratively to protect those at risk in our ever-changing world.

This year’s agenda will be a mixture of presentations, workshops and interactive sessions.

Topics will include:

• what we’ve been working on and key changes within the organisation

• working closer to safeguard adults at risk

• Guardianship (Missing Persons)

There will also be a keynote speech from our new Public Guardian, Nick Goodwin to mark his first 100 days in office, his ambitions for his role and OPG.

We do hope you are able to come and participate in what will be both an informative and interactive event.

Very best wishes,

Office of the Public Guardian

To secure your place, book your free ticket via the link above as spaces are limited:

“Think the Unthinkable”

“It is about looking at every case and thinking ‘I must think the unthinkable even if I dismiss it on the basis of evidence’.  At least think about it.”  John Fitzgerald was the social worker who led the review into the murders of children at the hands of Fred and Rosemary West.

The quote “Think the Unthinkable” also appeared in a recent North Wales Child Practice Review report.

At the annual North Wales Safeguarding Board conference we will have the following presentations:

• Learning from Operation Jasmine – Families whose relatives who suffered abuse within Care Homes in South Wales will talk about their experiences.
• Smash Life UK – Andy & Matt Smith are brothers who were placed into the care system by social services after neglectful parenting from their biological mother and father. They then were abused by the very people they were placed with by social services who they had hoped would be their loving new mum and dad between the years of 1990-1998.
• Key Practice Learning from Adult / Child Practice Reviews in North Wales delivered by AFTA Thought who specialises in training through drama. The scenarios and situations created will help you recognise and reinforce the key learning from recent Adult and Child Practice Reviews from North Wales and increase your understanding of individual and group responsibilities in safeguarding.

To book your place please visit:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/north-wales-safeguarding-board-annual-conference-2019-tickets-68992970833

Safeguarding Adults at Risk Training for Sport NGBs in Wales – October 2019

Two forthcoming free training events for Sport National Governing Bodies (NGB’s). This training is for the Lead Safeguarding Officers, Board and Senior Staff members of sport NGBs in Wales.
The Safeguarding Adults at Risk Training will include:
• Sport NGBs – The Duty of Care
• The Social Services and Wellbeing Act (Wales) 2014
• Other National Legislation
• What is an Adult at Risk?
• Defining ‘abuse’
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Safeguarding Adults and Children – Strategic and Operational Differences/Similarities
• The Future – The Ann Craft Trust Safeguarding Adults Framework

Book here…

7th October – Cardiff (LIMITED SPACES)
https://www.anncrafttrust.org/events/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-training-for-sport-ngbs-in-wales-october-2019/

25th October – Plas Menai, North Wales (**NEW**)
https://www.anncrafttrust.org/events/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-training-for-sport-ngbs-in-wales-october-25-2019/

Other organisations may attend, but there is a small fee of £49.

Missing People will be hosting County Lines Conference: The National Picture and Best Practice on Thursday 19th September 2019 from 09:45 – 13:30 in Birmingham.

Numbers of children being criminally exploited are rising and the police, social workers, those in the criminal justice system and the voluntary sector are seeing increasing demand for their support and expertise to help tackle this.

This conference will share best practice from work being done nationally and locally to tackle county lines and findings from organisations working with victims of child criminal exploitation.

Young people recruited by gangs are often forced to go missing and are at risk of violence and other abuse. Their families face the trauma involved in a disappearance and fear for their loved one’s life.

Delegates will hear:

• A mother’s story and lived experience of county lines
• National County Lines Coordination Centre outlining the national approach to tackling county lines
• Research findings of Families’ experiences of child criminal exploitation by Missing People

Refreshments will be provided in the break and there will also be an opportunity to network and learn from representatives from a variety of professional backgrounds.

Early bird tickets are currently still available at £69 and can be purchased here:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/county-lines-conference-supporting-children-who-are-missing-and-criminally-exploited-tickets-62917428723

The ‘Keeping Safe?’ project is a three year study funded by the Welsh Government through Health and Care Research Wales conducted by a team of researchers from the School of Social Sciences led by Dr Sophie Hallett.

The aim of this study is to conduct an original investigation into the outcomes for children and young people assessed as being ‘at risk’ of sexual exploitation – please see attached report.

Keeping Safe Research Report

On the 4th September Dr Sophie Hallet will be presenting this report at the North Wales Safeguarding Board and NSPCC Child Exploitation Community of Practice Event.

To attend this event – please book via the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/child-exploitation-community-of-practice-event-keeping-safe-project-tickets-68973634999

Monday the 15^th of July 2019 10am – 12.30pm
Deeside 6^th Coleg Cambria, Connah’s Quay CH5 4BH

What is a Community of Practice?
A community of practice is a group of people who share concerns or passion for something they do.

For further information please see attached.

Bookings via eventbrite only: https://csecopnorthwales.eventbrite.co.uk;

CoP Event

All Wales Basic Safeguarding Training 2019

Specifically targeted at voluntary and community groups to raise awareness of what everybody needs to know about safeguarding. Please see attached bilingual poster with additional information with a range of dates and venues between July and December 2019. The next date is 9 July 2019 at Llanrwst Library.
Safeguarding Poster Billingual 2019-20

CHILD EXPLOITATION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE EVENT

What is a Community of Practice?

A community of practice is a group of people who share concerns or passion for something they do.

For further information please see attached flyer:

CoPMay19

Flyer for Third Sector Coed Pella English.

NEW GROUPS STARTING –

Conwy @ Llandudno Junction 03/06/2019
& YNYS MON @ Llangefni 02/09/2019

THESE ARE OPEN TO ALL COUNTIES TO REFER TO – GWYNEDD, ANGLESEY, CONWY AND DENBIGHSHIRE

The Caring Dads programme focuses on:-
• helping men recognise attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that support healthy and unhealthy father-child relationships
• develop skills for interacting with children in healthy ways
• appreciate the impact on children of controlling, intimidating, abusive and neglectful actions including witnessing domestic violence
During Caring Dads, fathers will develop skills to cope in healthy ways with frustrating situations, including:-
• Understanding how different fathering strategies and choices affect children
• Increasing their awareness of controlling, abusive, and neglectful attitudes and behaviours
• Developing strategies to strengthen the father-child relationship

Referral form and further information on the Caring Dads programme available at www.pauljonesisw.co.uk

Caring Dads Awareness Training also available:-

Conwy – 25/04/2019 @ Llandudno Junction

Gwynedd – 24/07/2019 @ Caernarfon

Ynys Mon – 24/07/2019 @ Llangefni

Please click on the link above for the Caring Dads Programme website which includes the links to secure your place on the various training dates available in Conwy, Gwynedd and Anglesey

Supporting Families’ Futures
Partnership approaches for positive outcomes
27 March 2019, 9am – 4pm Cardiff City Stadium

Speakers confirmed:

Julie Morgan, The Deputy Minister for Health and Social Care, Eleri Thomas, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent, Professor Mark Bellis Director of Policy, Research and International Development, Public Health Wales, Professor Gordon Harold Director, Sussex Rudd Centre

Conference will be chaired by Keith Moultrie, IPC Oxford Brookes

please book via: https://supportingfamiliesfutures.eventbrite.co.uk

David Melding AM

Chair, Ministerial Advisory Group on Improving the Outcomes for Children

is delighted to invite you to the launch of the briefing
Listen. Act. Thrive:
Emotional and Mental Health of Care Experienced Children.

On: Monday 11th March 2018, 6-8pm.

At: Future Inn Cardiff Hotel, Hemingway Rd, Cardiff CF10 4AU

The briefing looks into the effectiveness of assessment and support for mental health provided to care experienced children. Care experienced young people and key professionals will be participating at the event.

To register for the launch, please contact the NSPCC at: Publicaffairs.cymru@NSPCC.org.uk or 02921671583

Tea, coffee and biscuits served at 6pm

Following two successful conferences on financial abuse and coercive control, AEA Cymru is delighted to be holding our next conference in North Wales.

The conference will be focusing on how the criminal justice system responds to older victims of crimes from reporting crimes to investigation, referral to the Crown Prosecution Service, prosecuting offences and finally sentencing.

We will also examine how to support victims of crime and how adult safeguarding links with the criminal justice system.

Agenda:
•In Search of Accountability – Lessons from Operation Jasmine and abuse in care settings – Dr. Margaret Flynn, first Chair, National Independent Safeguarding Board.
•The CPS- Prosecuting Crimes Against Older People – Gerallt Evans, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, Cymru
•The approach to serving older people – the Future – Deputy Chief Constable, Richard Lewis, National Police Chief’s Council – Lead on Age Related Matters.
•Making the case for an elder abuse law, 22 years of prosecuting elder abuse. – Paul Greenwood, recently retired Deputy District Attorney, San Diego, California, former Crown Prosecution Service solicitor.
•The abuse of older people in domestic settings: ageism, coercive control and gender – Alan Clark, Professor of Criminology, Aberystwyth University, Dewis Choice Project
•Adult safeguarding – Working together with Criminal Justice Agencies – Carys Phillips, BASW Cymru Committee member and co-chair of the Social Work Law in Wales – Policy Practice and Education Group.
•Making Wales the best place in the world to grow older: stopping the abuse of older people – Steve Bartley, Safeguarding Lead, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales.
•Ann Griffith, North Wales Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner.

as well as an interactive panel discussion

To book a place please click on the link above.

Time:   09:30 – 12:30

The workshop will cover the following key areas:

• Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Steve Bartley and Nicola Evans will discuss the role of Advocacy and the Adult Safeguarding Process

• Improving the Quality of Safeguarding Reports

• Highlighting the role of the Lead Practitioner from partner agencies in the Enquiries Process

Dear colleague

“Getting it Right, Together” is the key message of our ground-breaking, joint event in recognition of National Safeguarding Week and Trustees’ Week 2018.

Join us on 16th November, from 9.30am until 12.30pm in Llandudno Junction Community Club, to learn more, and how we can all support each other to make Conwy a safer place for all.

Hosted jointly by CVSC, Conwy County Borough Council and WCVA, the spotlight will be on Safeguarding being every one’s business, working together to put it into practice, and the support, resources, training and information available out there to help get it right.

Along with the host organisations, there will be presentations from the Charity Commission and North Wales Safeguarding Board, with information stands from a variety of organisations promoting support available in the county.

If you are a third sector organisation or partner working in Conwy, then this event is for you!

Joint North Wales Safeguarding Adults Board & North Wales Safeguarding Children’s Board Annual Conference 2018

Date:   Tuesday 13^th November

Time:   9.30am – 12.45pm

Venue:  Conwy Business Centre, Llandudno Junction

As part of National Safeguarding Week, we will be holding a Joint Adults and Children’s Board Conference.  We will have a number of guest speakers including the Children’s Commissioner for Wales.  The focus of the conference is around the theme of exploitation.

To book a place on the conference please go via the attached link.

Time: 09:30 – 12:30

The North Wales Safeguarding Board are holding a learning event around key practice themes from Adult / Child Practice Reviews on the 9^th November. We are keen to encourage as many Front –line Officers/ Practitioners to attend this event.

One of the key areas for the NWSB is to ensure  key learning from reviews are shared with officers/ practitioners and this workshop is just one of the ways which we will be trying to promote learning into practice over the next six months.

To book a place at the conference – please go to Eventbrite

Welsh Women’s Aid are inviting you to a multi-agency seminar addressing child sexual abuse and exploitation in Wales which will discuss how to improve prevention, protection and provision of support.

At this event there will be highly experienced, award-winning and influential speakers including:

• Jessica Eaton – Independent Specialist in the Psychology of Victims of Sexual Violence, Abuse, Sexual Trauma and the Social Phenomena of Victim Blaming
• Yasmin Rehman – Independent International Specialist on Race, Faith, Gender and Human Rights
• Nazir Afzal – National Advisor for Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence

This will be followed by a training workshop for Welsh Women’s Aid specialist services.

To book see link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/child-sexual-exploitation-abuse-in-wales-improving-prevention-protection-and-provision-of-support-tickets-49211782767

Time:   09:30 – 12:30

The Herbert Protocol initiative is named after George Herbert, a war veteran of the Normandy landings, who lived with dementia. It is a process to be used where there is a risk that a vulnerable person, particularly if they suffer from dementia, may go missing.

It consists of a form for recording key information which the police will require if the vulnerable person goes missing. Carers, family members and friends should complete a short form in advance. In the event of a person going missing the information can be shared with North Wales Police.

The Launch event will include

• Presentations from Guest Speakers:
• Overview of the Process in North Wales and the impact on Families/ Carers when an Adult goes missing

13:30 – 16:00

Course Aim – An introduction to the Caring Dads programme and to discuss appropriate service users to be referred.

Caring Dads is devoted to ensuring the safety and well being of children through working with fathers who have abused and neglect their children or expose them to abuse of their mothers. Caring Dads is a child centred programme.

The Caring Dads program focuses on:-

• Helping men recognise attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that support healthy and unhealthy father-child relationships.
• Develop skills for interacting with children in healthy ways.
• Appreciate the impact on children of controlling, intimidating, abusive and neglectful actions including witnessing domestic violence.

09:30 – 12:00

Course Aim – An introduction to the Caring Dads programme and to discuss appropriate service users to be referred.

Caring Dads is devoted to ensuring the safety and well being of children through working with fathers who have abused and neglect their children or expose them to abuse of their mothers. Caring Dads is a child centred programme.

The Caring Dads program focuses on:-

• Helping men recognise attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that support healthy and unhealthy father-child relationships.
• Develop skills for interacting with children in healthy ways.
• Appreciate the impact on children of controlling, intimidating, abusive and neglectful actions including witnessing domestic violence.

Operation Shield is a North Wales Police organisational initiative to identify police officers and police staff who abuse their position of trust for a sexual purpose.

We will be conducting a series of 2-3 hour workshops at three venues in the North Wales Police area to discuss the details of this initiative.

10:00 – 12:00

Tuesday 12th June 2018 Optic Centre St Asaph

Registration from 9.00am – 9.30am, Workshop 9.30am – 12.15

An opportunity for multi agency practitioners to input into the development of the Regional Harmful Sexual Behaviour Action Plan.

In addition there will be presentations from guest speakers around the latest practice development in regards to HSB and an overview of the current practice issues in North Wales.

For further information please see attached flyer.

HSB Event Flyer

To book a place on this event please use the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nw-safeguarding-childrens-board-harmful-sexual-behaviour-regional-overview-tickets-45021605835

The purpose of this event is to offer professionals, practitioners and victims and survivors the opportunity to provide their expert suggestions in developing the programme of work.

The event will also provide discussion opportunities and forums to allow comments and feedback on Government proposals.

The event will take place from 10.00am to 3.00pm on 10th May at Cardiff City Hall.

A sandwich lunch and tea and coffee breaks will be provided.

To register your interest, please reply to the following email address: domesticabuseconsultation2018@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Domestic Abuse Consultation Cardiff

 The conference (9.30am – 4pm) offers an exciting opportunity to bring together professionals across North Wales to discuss current research and practice around CSE in conjunction with National CSE Awareness Day. 

Opening speaker:

• Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Keynote speaker:

• Dr Helen Becket, Director of The International Centre, Bedfordshire University: Researching CSE, Violence and Trafficking

The afternoon will consist of workshops by:

• Protect & Respect Service, NSPCC Cymru
• Gwella Project, Barnardo’s Cymru
• Independent Child Trafficking Advocacy Service, Barnardo’s Cymru

Closing remarks:

Mohammed Mehmet, Chief Executive Denbighshire and Chair of the Regional CSE Executive Board

There is no cost to attend the conference, refreshments will be available.  Lunch will not be provided.

To book your place please e-mail: nspccnorthwales@nspcc.org.uk

BASPCAN – the Association of England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales for Child Protection

Exploring the relevance to practice in Wales of an International Study on Promoting Positive Parenting

Sponsored by Lynne Neagle AM

ISPCAN, BASPCAN, NSPCC Cymru/ Wales & Children in Wales would like to invite you to attend our joint conference at the Pierhead, Cardiff on Wednesday 14th March 2018, 9.00am – 4.30pm.

Aims of the Conference

To explore the relevance to practice in Wales of findings from an international study by ISPCAN on promoting positive parenting
To identify practical ways of improving parenting practice to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people in Wales.
Learning objectives

By the end of this event participants will be able to:

• identify how findings and recommendations from an international study by ISPCAN on promoting positive parenting relate to practice in Wales
• understand what is necessary for effective implementation of positive parenting interventions
• describe practical ways of improving parenting in day-to-day practice at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of intervention.

Audiences

• Professionals who coordinate and manage parenting support services.
• Professionals working directly with children and families from health, social work, early years, early intervention services, education and the independent and voluntary sector.
• Professionals with a responsibility for planning and commissioning services to promote child health and wellbeing, positive parenting and the prevention of child maltreatment.
• Coordinators on Public Service Boards in Wales.
• Educators and researchers working in the field of positive parenting and the prevention of child maltreatment.

BASPCAN Positive Parenting 14 March 2018 Programme Eng

A two-day course

This course is aimed at people who want to gain accreditation whilst learning about the current challenges in child protection and how practitioners can work with others to increase the protective factors for children that they work with.The course is appropriate for people working in a range of organisations including youth settings, schools, children’s daycare and residential settings, also services providing support to children and families in the voluntary and private sector. This two day training will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss issues from practice exploring the complex and sensitive nature of keeping children safe in a variety of settings.

The training will explore young people, self-harm and suicide.  It will outline young people’s mental health, the issues that young people experience and the reasons why young people self-harm, the difference between self-harm and suicide and ways to support young people who do so.  Coping mechanisms for young people and staff will be explored.

All children have the right to live lives free from abuse and neglect but recent events highlight, yet again, how difficult it can be for so many adults to recognise, and act on concerns about the safety or welfare of a child. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all organisations concerned with children should work towards what’s best for each child. The Designated Person for Child Protection has a vital role within organisations helping to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place and that necessary action is taken when concerns about a child are raised. This course is aimed at people acting in the ‘Designated Person’ role working in a variety of organisations including schools, children’s daycare and residential settings, also services providing support to children and families in the voluntary and private sector.

A team at CASCADE was appointed by the Welsh Government to undertake a review of the Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Statutory Guidance including the embedded definition of CSE and the Sexual Exploitation Risk Assessment Framework (SERAF). This event will launch the CSE Guidance Review.

10:00 – 15:00 – Free

The ACE Support Hub is pleased to announce the forthcoming event:

North Wales: ACEs in Practice

The programme includes:

The Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children talk about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Learn about the work of the ACE Support Hub

Explore examples of ACE aware work happening in North Wales

Lunch and Refreshments will be provided

We welcome colleagues from all sectors working within the Adverse Childhood Experiences agenda to attend.

Any queries please contact ACE@wales.nhs.uk

Look forward to welcoming you at the event.

Following an innovative 6-month partnership project, NSPCC Cymru/Wales & Swansea University are delighted to announce the launch of a new activity pack to support work to prevent online grooming.

The pack is designed for one-to-one or small group work with children and young people at risk of, or who have experienced online grooming. It translates pioneer research findings into engaging materials for professionals to promote a better understanding of the strategies online groomers use to build trust and relationships with young people.

The activity pack will be launched at this event with key speakers from the University and NSPCC policy team & Guests.

The activity pack will be launched by;

Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus – Principal Investigator, Online Grooming Communication Research Project, Swansea University.
Ruth Mullineux – Project Lead NSPCC
Detective Chief Superintendent Wayne Jones – North Wales Police
Ann Griffiths – Deputy Police Crime Commissioner for North Wales

This event is open to Professionals managing staff or those working directly with children or young people in various professional setting. (i.e. Police, social workers, education professionals, youth workers, health professionals)

A half-day CPD Course for Health & Social Care Staff.

This course has been devised for those who work with adults who may be classed as at risk within health, social care or education settings.

Course Cost £45 per person

The course explores the main types of abuse, their possible indicators and how to sensitively handle these. The new implications of the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 are also covered as part of the training.

All children have the right to live lives free from abuse and neglect but recent events highlight, yet again, how difficult it can be for so many adults to recognise, and act on concerns about the safety or welfare of a child.

28th June 2017 – Venue Cymru – Two Day Event

• Motivational Speaker is Nigel Owens MBE – Welsh Rugby Referee
• Pre-conference Well-being Event and meet the exhibitors on Tuesday 27th June 2017
• Entrance to all keynote and plenary conference sessions on 28th – 29th June
• Access to a range of workshop and Fringe Events
• Lunch plus cake/coffee breaks on both days
• All day access to the Exhibition Hall and Fringe Theatre
• Free Wi-Fi

Link

21st June 2017

Keynote Speakers:

Carl Sargeant, Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children

Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Venue and further details to be confirmed

A two day course

13 & 14 June – Conwy

Book Now

All children have the right to live lives free from abuse and neglect but recent events highlight, yet again, how difficult it can be for so many adults to recognise, and act on concerns about the safety or welfare of a child. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all organisations concerned with children should work towards what’s best for each child. The Designated Person for Child Protection has a vital role within organisations helping to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place and that necessary action is taken when concerns about a child are raised. This course is aimed at people acting in the ‘Designated Person’ role working in a variety of organisations including schools, children’s daycare and residential settings, also services providing support to children and families in the voluntary and private sector.

Price:

Starting from: £170.00 – £245.00

You are invited to attend a free information session on Graded Care Profile 2

Neglect is one of the most dangerous forms of abuse, and can have serious and long–lasting effects for children and their families. For the last two decades it has been the most common reason for a child to be on the child protection register in Wales. But it can often be difficult to identify neglect, which can make it hard for decisions to be made about future care. Yet with the right assessment tool in place, we can measure the quality of care been given to a child, and make it easier for professionals to spot anything that is putting a child at risk of harm. There is an exciting opportunity for a small number of Welsh local authorities/safeguarding boards to work with the NSPCC to further test the Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2) tool in Wales

Information sessions are scheduled for the following dates:

Conwy

Friday 12 May 2017

Conwy Business Centre, Llandudno Junction, LL31 9XX

Sign up here

22 March 2017, Conwy – Book Online

A one-day course

The training will explore youth homelessness.  The course will outline reasons for youth homelessness, current trends and the impact of current Housing and Homelessness legislation in Wales.  Ways of support young homeless people and the issues such as substance misuse, Child Sexual Exploitation and how to safeguard them.  This will be conducted using a rights based approach.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Have an understanding reasons for youth homelessness
• Gain ways of supporting homeless young people
• How to identify young people at risk of Sexual Exploitation
• Gain knowledge on safeguarding homeless young people

Who is it aimed at?

Practitioners, Managers and Policy Makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their work can support homeless or potentially homeless young people.  Examine legislation and how to support young people to exercise their rights.

COST:  

Members: £80           Non-members:  £100

A one-day course

21 March 2017, Conwy – Book Online

The training will explore LGBT issues and young people.  The process of coming out, issues for young people such as bullying, gender identity and sexuality.  How to support young people whether gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender or questioning young people.  It will deal with issues such as safeguarding, self-harm, substance misuse and Child Sexual Exploitation.  This will be conducted using a rights based approach.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Have an understanding LGBTQ issues
• Gain ways of supporting LGBTQ young people
• Gain knowledge on safeguarding LGBTQ young people
• Gain practical skills in identifying young people who are vulnerable to Child Sexual Exploitation

Who is it aimed at?

Practitioners, Managers and Policy Makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their work can support LGBTQ young people.  Examine new trends in gender identity and sexuality and how this impacts on practice.

About the trainer

Mike Mainwaring, Training Officer

Mike Mainwaring has worked with Children and Young People for over 20 years. Specialising in substance misuse, youth homelessness, participation and children’s rights. He is a qualified trainer and has trained children, young people and adults on substance misuse, LGBT issues, children’s rights, participation, dealing with difficult behaviour, safeguarding and child protection, Child Sexual Exploitation and boundaries. He has also developed and run youth lead research projects. He has worked in various settings such as street drug projects, residential rehabilitation, outreach work, play, youth work, manged housing projects and run youth councils. He has an art background, working with young people in distress through the medium of art and exhibiting his own work about social issues.

Course Feedback:

“The videos and the hands on approach were great- didn’t feel awkward taking part either which was unusual”

“Thank you very much. It has been interesting, knowledge able and a great help. Much appreciated. I hope to get more training with you again. Diolch.”

 Cost: 

Members: £80              Non-members:  £100

14 & 15 March, Rhyl – Book Online

A two-day course

All children have the right to live lives free from abuse and neglect but recent events highlight, yet again, how difficult it can be for so many adults to recognise, and act on concerns about the safety or welfare of a child.  The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all organisations concerned with children should work towards what’s best for each child.  The Designated Person for Child Protection has a vital role within organisations helping to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place and that necessary action is taken when concerns about a child are raised.

This two day training course will consider:  

• The role of the Designated Person and how this can be incorporated into your organisation
• Legislation and guidance on safeguarding children and young people, particularly within the Welsh context
• Essential safeguarding measures that need to be in place
• The ‘abuse of trust’ and how to remain alert to potential sexual offences within the organisation
• Assessing concerns about a child and making a referral to social services if necessary
• The statutory child protection system and what may be expected of you
• Confidentiality and good record keeping
• Diversity and the additional vulnerabilities for some children

COST:

Members £165                    Non members £195

Half Day Course

FREE to all North Wales Safeguarding Children Board member agency staff and non-profit voluntary agencies working in the North Wales region

Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of what is meant by the term ‘Sexually Harmful Behaviour’ (SHB)

To distinguish developmentally healthy behaviours from those that are problematic or harmful

Explore attitudes and beliefs around Sexually Harmful Behaviour

Identify how practitioners respond to Sexually Harmful Behaviour through use of the ‘All Wales protocol’

Target Group

Multi agency training designed for all practitioners working with children and young people.

Please note: the closure date will be two weeks prior to course date

Leaflet

Registration Form

How to apply: Please complete the attached booking form and send it to kathy.stephens@barnardos.org.uk. Your place will then be confirmed

08 March 2017, Llandudno – Book Online

One day course

Conversations with Children & Young People under the Social Services and Well-being Act 2014 and other arenas for assessing Children’s & Young People’s Well-being Outcomes.

Under the Social Services and Well-being Act 2014, children & young people who are eligible for Care and Support Services will need to be involved in What Matters Conversations and the Co-production of their Well-being Goals.  There has been a culture change in the way we work with people of all ages in Wales, including children & young people, a move from doing to, to doing with children & young people.

The course will look at the legislative framework in Wales, the context for What Matters Conversations, and how to conduct assessments with children & young people.  The training will give participants the knowledge and practical skills in conducting assessments, using play and creative techniques and activities from preparation, to conducting assessments through to what happens after.  The course will use a child rights based approach, which is an overarching duty within the Act.

This one day course will consider:

• An overview of the Social Services and Well-being Act 2014
• The framework of Children’s Rights within the Act
• The context of What Matters Conversations
• The purpose of assessments
• The 5 elements of assessments
• The difference between Well-being and Welfare
• Barriers to participation
• Co-production and what it means in practice
• Skills and Resources needed to engage with Children

Who the course is aimed at:

Managers and practitioners working with children & young people in social care, health and education, other statutory agencies, voluntary and third sector organisations.

COST:  

Members: £80                  Non-members: £100

Half Day Course

FREE to all North Wales Safeguarding Children Board member agency staff and non-profit voluntary agencies working in the North Wales region

Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of what is meant by the term ‘Sexually Harmful Behaviour’ (SHB)

To distinguish developmentally healthy behaviours from those that are problematic or harmful

Explore attitudes and beliefs around Sexually Harmful Behaviour

Identify how practitioners respond to Sexually Harmful Behaviour through use of the ‘All Wales protocol’

Target Group

Multi agency training designed for all practitioners working with children and young people.

Please note: the closure date will be two weeks prior to course date

Leaflet

Registration Form

How to apply: Please complete the attached booking form and send it to kathy.stephens@barnardos.org.uk. Your place will then be confirmed

Half Day Course

FREE to all North Wales Safeguarding Children Board member agency staff and non-profit voluntary agencies working in the North Wales region

Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of what is meant by the term ‘Sexually Harmful Behaviour’ (SHB)

To distinguish developmentally healthy behaviours from those that are problematic or harmful

Explore attitudes and beliefs around Sexually Harmful Behaviour

Identify how practitioners respond to Sexually Harmful Behaviour through use of the ‘All Wales protocol’

Target Group

Multi agency training designed for all practitioners working with children and young people.

Please note: the closure date will be two weeks prior to course date

Leaflet

Registration Form

How to apply: Please complete the attached booking form and send it to kathy.stephens@barnardos.org.uk. Your place will then be confirmed

28 FEBRUARY 2017, CONWY – Book Online

One day course

The training will explore substance misuse and young people.  The course will outline drugs, alcohol, illegal and legal highs.  The training will examine new substances and the behaviours stemming from their use.  It will help participants create strategies for dealing with young people’s use and the difficult and dangerous behaviours they can produce.  It will explore the relationship between substance misuse and Child Sexual Exploitation and how to safeguard young people.  This will be conducted using a rights based approach.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Have an understanding substances and substance misuse
• Gain ways of supporting substance misusing young people
• How to identify young people at risk of Sexual Exploitation
• Gain knowledge on safeguarding substance misusing young people
• Gain practical skills for coping with substance misusing young people’s behaviour

Who is it aimed at?

Practitioners, Managers and Policy Makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their work can support substance misusing young people.  Examine new trends in substance misuse such as legal highs and other psychoactive drugs.

COST:  

Members: £80                  Non-members: £100

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact  training@childreninwales.org.uk for more information.

16 February 2017, Wrexham – Book Online

This three hour workshop is aimed at supporting a better informed and engaged multi-agency cross sector workforce to deliver Welsh Government Policy. 

The session will support people from a wide range of organisations to understand the distinctive Welsh legislative and policy framework for children and families that has developed as a result of increasing devolution from Westminster. The session will consider current Welsh legislation around children and families, Welsh Government policy and strategies on issues including how Children’s Rights are being addressed through initiatives on child poverty, health, social care and education. The course will explore the Welsh Government’s new Programme for Government, as well as initiatives such as Families First, Flying Start, Communities First and Integrated Family Support considering the roles and priorities of different sectors involved in delivering these and the challenges faced by everyone.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Gain an overview of the political context and processes that shape policy in Wales
• Have a synopsis of the new Programme for Government for 2016-2021
• Learn about Welsh Government policies and strategies relevant to children and young people
• Understanding the national priorities for children and family services
• Explore how their organisation and key areas of work fit with the main policy areas concerning children, young people and families.

Who should attend?

Practitioners, managers and policy makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their area of work fits in with the bigger picture of child and family policy in Wales. It will help organisations to prepare for predicted changes and to operate effectively within a multi- agency context.

*PLEASE NOTE: TO ENSURE WE HAVE CROSS-SECTORAL REPRESENTATION AT EACH WORKSHOP, WE CAN OFFER TWO PLACES TO EACH ORGANISATION*

**CANCELLATIONS**

This is a FREE event, however there will be a charge of £50 for those delegates who book a place and do not attend. Cancellations will be accepted up to two days before the event. We can accept substitutions if the named participant is unable to attend at short notice.

16/02/2017 | ABERYSTWYTH | 13:30 – 16:30

The workshop will explore participation and its relation to the UNCRC and Welsh legislation such as the Child Rights Measure, Children and Families Measure, Social Services and Wellbeing Act and Future Generations Act.  The session will explore practical ways of introducing participation and the skills needed to meaningfully engage young people.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Understanding Participation and how it enables Children’s Rights
• Explore Participation and its Legal Framework
• Gain practical skills on involving young people in your work

Who is it aimed at?

Practitioners, Managers and Policy Makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their area of work fits in with the bigger picture of child and family policy in Wales.  It will help organisations to prepare for predicted changes and to operate effectively within a multi-agency context.

The training is FREE and limited to TWO participants from each organisation only.

**CANCELLATIONS**

This is a FREE event, however there will be a charge of £50 for those delegates who book a place and do not attend. Cancellations will be accepted up to 2 days before the event. We will always accept substitutions if the named participant is unable to attend at short notice.

15 February 2017, Bangor – Book Online

This three hour workshop is aimed at supporting a better informed and engaged multi-agency cross sector workforce to deliver Welsh Government Policy. 

The session will support people from a wide range of organisations to understand the distinctive Welsh legislative and policy framework for children and families that has developed as a result of increasing devolution from Westminster. The session will consider current Welsh legislation around children and families, Welsh Government policy and strategies on issues including how Children’s Rights are being addressed through initiatives on child poverty, health, social care and education. The course will explore the Welsh Government’s new Programme for Government, as well as initiatives such as Families First, Flying Start, Communities First and Integrated Family Support considering the roles and priorities of different sectors involved in delivering these and the challenges faced by everyone.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Gain an overview of the political context and processes that shape policy in Wales
• Have a synopsis of the new Programme for Government for 2016-2021
• Learn about Welsh Government policies and strategies relevant to children and young people
• Understanding the national priorities for children and family services
• Explore how their organisation and key areas of work fit with the main policy areas concerning children, young people and families.

Who should attend?

Practitioners, managers and policy makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their area of work fits in with the bigger picture of child and family policy in Wales. It will help organisations to prepare for predicted changes and to operate effectively within a multi- agency context.

*PLEASE NOTE: TO ENSURE WE HAVE CROSS-SECTORAL REPRESENTATION AT EACH WORKSHOP, WE CAN OFFER TWO PLACES TO EACH ORGANISATION*

**CANCELLATIONS**

This is a FREE event, however there will be a charge of £50 for those delegates who book a place and do not attend. Cancellations will be accepted up to two days before the event. We can accept substitutions if the named participant is unable to attend at short notice.

Half Day Course

FREE to all North Wales Safeguarding Children Board member agency staff and non-profit voluntary agencies working in the North Wales region

Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of what is meant by the term ‘Sexually Harmful Behaviour’ (SHB)

To distinguish developmentally healthy behaviours from those that are problematic or harmful

Explore attitudes and beliefs around Sexually Harmful Behaviour

Identify how practitioners respond to Sexually Harmful Behaviour through use of the ‘All Wales protocol’

Target Group

Multi agency training designed for all practitioners working with children and young people.

Please note: the closure date will be two weeks prior to course date

Leaflet

Registration Form

How to apply: Please complete the attached booking form and send it to kathy.stephens@barnardos.org.uk. Your place will then be confirmed

16/02/2017 | ABERYSTWYTH | 13:30 – 16:30

The workshop will explore participation and its relation to the UNCRC and Welsh legislation such as the Child Rights Measure, Children and Families Measure, Social Services and Wellbeing Act and Future Generations Act.  The session will explore practical ways of introducing participation and the skills needed to meaningfully engage young people.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Understanding Participation and how it enables Children’s Rights
• Explore Participation and its Legal Framework
• Gain practical skills on involving young people in your work

Who is it aimed at?

Practitioners, Managers and Policy Makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their area of work fits in with the bigger picture of child and family policy in Wales.  It will help organisations to prepare for predicted changes and to operate effectively within a multi-agency context.

The training is FREE and limited to TWO participants from each organisation only.

**CANCELLATIONS**

This is a FREE event, however there will be a charge of £50 for those delegates who book a place and do not attend. Cancellations will be accepted up to 2 days before the event. We will always accept substitutions if the named participant is unable to attend at short notice.

Half Day Course

FREE to all North Wales Safeguarding Children Board member agency staff and
non-profit voluntary agencies working in the North Wales region

Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of what is meant by the term ‘Sexually
Harmful Behaviour’ (SHB)

To distinguish developmentally healthy behaviours from those that
are problematic or harmful

Explore attitudes and beliefs around Sexually Harmful Behaviour

Identify how practitioners respond to Sexually Harmful Behaviour
through use of the ‘All Wales protocol’

Target Group

Multi agency training designed for all practitioners working with children
and young people.

Please note: the closure date will be two weeks prior to course date

Leaflet

Registration Form

How to apply:
Please complete the attached booking form and send it to kathy.stephens@barnardos.org.uk. Your place will then be confirmed

19 January 2017, Conwy – Book Online

A one day course

This course is for all practitioners working with young people who want to increase their understanding of why young people self harm, and how best to support those who do. Research has shown that self harm is viewed as a highly sensitive topic by professionals, parents and young people, with issued regarding stigma and the misunderstanding of causes leading to uncertainty as to how best to support young people who self harm. Understanding self harm is therefore crucial in providing effective support to those in need.

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

• Understand common myths surrounding self harm, as well as issues regarding stigma
• Understand and appreciate the perspective of other professionals, parents and young people
• Assess and manage risk, understand the concept of harm minimisation, and be better able to explore alternatives to self harm within the context of your role
• Apply and manage risk, understand the concept of harm minimisation, and be better able to explore alternatives to self harm within the context of your role
• Apply proven strategies aimed at developing the resilience of those vulnerable to self harm
• Develop a self harm policy tailored to your needs, designed to provide clear information and guidance
• Explore and reflect upon your own feelings towards self harm, and consider how such views influence your practice
• COST:

  Members: £140                    Non members: £160

FREE TRAINING

Thursday 24th November 2016 1pm- 3pm (Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention Awareness)

All sessions will be delivered at

Venue: Colwyn Bay Town Hall, Rhiw Road, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7TE

 Open Sessions

Stop it Now! Wales are able to deliver the following training sessions for parents and professionals parenting or working with children and young people. Please see below for details of the sessions content

Please make contact on either the mobile number or email address below, giving the following information:

Name, Address, Phone number and email address of EACH participant.

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

Stop it Now AUTUMN training CONWY

Gillian Jones

Email: gjones@stopitnow.org.uk

Tel: 07803 629628

16 November 2016, Rhyl – Book Online  

A one-day course

Understanding cultural differences is an important component in effective working with families and children. Practitioners and managers can be reluctant to address child welfare concerns because they fear being accused of racism, intolerance or prejudice. Getting the balance right between cultural sensitivity and making Westernised judgements on child welfare is difficult.

The aim of this course is to raise awareness of cultural, ethnic and religious identities when considering safeguarding issues within asylum seeking, refugee and migrant families. It will increase the understanding of particular safeguarding risks within families and communities and enhance confidence in addressing safeguarding issues with families.

The course is for anyone working with asylum seeking, refugee or other BAME migrant families, in statutory, social care, health or education, community groups and refugee community organisations, including Flying Start, Families First, Communities First, IFST, etc…

This course will include:

• Child protection through a cultural lens
• Cultural perspectives on parenting in immigrant families arriving in Wales
• Female Genital Mutilation, ‘Honour’ Violence, Forced Marriage, Abuse Linked to a belief in Witchcraft
• Promoting positive parenting in immigrant families

About the Trainer

Cheryl Martin has worked with asylum seekers and refugees over a number of years and developed this course from her experiences of working with families and safeguarding children within a cultural context.

She has previously worked as Children’s Services Manager at Welsh Women’s Aid, the national umbrella organisation for domestic abuse in Wales and has experience of delivering training in a youth justice setting. Cheryl is a qualified counsellor and conflict resolution practitioner, working as an independent mediator for a number of years. She has been a Trustee and chair of two charities over the past 12 years.

As a Level 3 Accredited Trainer Cheryl has delivered training in different settings to a wide range of audiences, including multi-agency training, statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals.

COST

Members £80                    Non members £100

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact training@childreninwales.org.uk for more information.

15 November 2016, Rhyl – Online Booking Form

A one-day course

A one day course aimed at anyone working directly or indirectly with children and young people in a wide range of workplace and community settings. The purpose of the training is to give participants confidence and essential knowledge on how to safeguard the children and young people in their environment.

The training is accredited through Agored Cymru and participants will need to complete assessments to demonstrate learning. Upon successful completion of an assignment the participant will achieve 3 credits at Level 2. This unit forms part of the Welsh quality assurance framework for vocational training.

As a result of the training participants will:

• Learn about the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, including E-safety
• Understand the roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people
• Understand how to safeguard children, young people and practitioners in a work setting
• Identify the characteristics of different types of child abuse
• Know how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused, harmed or bullied
• Be able to describe the principles and boundaries of confidentiality and when to share information

COST:

Members £130               Non members £155

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact training@childreninwales.org.uk for more information. 

FREE TRAINING

Wednesday 9th November 2016 6.30pm – 8.30pm (Internet Safety – Keeping Children Safe Online)

All sessions will be delivered at

Venue: Colwyn Bay Town Hall, Rhiw Road, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7TE

 Open Sessions

Stop it Now! Wales are able to deliver the following training sessions for parents and professionals parenting or working with children and young people. Please see below for details of the sessions content

Please make contact on either the mobile number or email address below, giving the following information:

Name, Address, Phone number and email address of EACH participant.

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

Stop it Now AUTUMN training CONWY

Gillian Jones

Email: gjones@stopitnow.org.uk

Tel: 07803 629628

Children in Wales, in partnership with Public Health Wales, 

has developed a new child safety toolkit for 2017

Aimed at reducing unintentional injuries in the under 5’s, this exciting new toolkit provides your organisation and practitioners with all of the resources needed to deliver a whole year of child safety information and advice to parents.

The toolkit includes attractive, printed calendars for your parents and a USB stick for your organisation. The USB resource is divided into months, with each month directly supporting the calendar messages parents will see on a daily basis.  For each month there is a team briefing, a step-by-step interactive group session plan, handouts, poster downloads, twitter feeds, text messages and face book uploads.

Issues addressed in the toolkit include nicotine poisoning, falls, scalds, blind cords and nappy sacks.  Everything has been developed for you, from the group delivery session plans to the ready to use text for your social media and everything is available in Welsh and English.

The Keep Kids Safe toolkit was developed to address the needs of practitioners, who stated; “We know we should do something, but we haven’t got the time to develop anything and we’re not sure what to do or how to address it.  We need something we can pick up and run with”.

It’s not just practitioners who have had their say, parents have also played a huge role in the development of the resources.  They have advised on details such as calendar images, language used, the practical advice they need and also how they want practitioners to support them.

Whether you are new to child safety or are already addressing the issues, the easy to use format of this toolkit provides a structured, informed approach to unintentional injury prevention.

The Keep Kids Safe toolkit will be launched on 9 November 2016 and is available from as little as £195.  However, orders received before 27 October 2016 will receive significant discounts.

Pre-launch costs: From £195    (For orders received before 27 October 2016)

Post-launch costs: From £245    (For orders received after 27 October 2016) For more information, please visit: http://www.childreninwales.org.uk/our-work/accident-prevention/keep-kids-safe-2017/

03 November 2016, Rhyl – Book Online

A one-day course

The Social Services and Wellbeing Act (Wales) 2014 came into force on 6th April this year and places a new focus on services supporting the well-being outcomes of the people they are working with.  The term ‘wellbeing’ is used to refer to the quality of people’s lives, and covers both subjective and objective aspects.  Subjective well-being focuses on soft outcomes such as how people are feeling and how they perceive their lives and personal goals.  Objective well-being focuses on the conditions which affect those feelings such as health or education which are easier to measure in hard outcomes. Both of these perspectives are valuable for understanding children’s well-being.

This course is relevant for managers and practitioners who wish to demonstrate that their intervention has made a difference to outcomes for people they work with.  Budgets are tight and all organisations need to consider economy and efficiency, but it is important to keep a focus on the effectiveness of services. This course will look at measuring the soft outcomes that your intervention has achieved for the people you work with. Participants will explore a range of methods that can be used with all groups – from children and young people to adults.

The course will include:

• Clarification of the terminology used when evaluating the impact of your services
• An exploration of why you need to measure qualitative information and how to do it
• Considering what soft outcomes are relevant to your setting
• Exploring a range of methods for measuring soft outcomes
• How to assess the distance travelled by users of your service
• Using information on outcomes to improve service delivery

COST

Members: £80          Non-members: £100

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact training@childreninwales.org.uk

**PLACES STILL AVAILABLE**

North Wales – 27 October 2016, Conwy Business Centre, 1pm – 3.30pm

Are you a Third Sector organisation delivering a service to children and young people that helps improve their emotional well-being and mental health?

Help us understand the real concerns and issues faced in giving timely and appropriate support. Tell us about the issues you face in delivering your service and the impact this has on improving the emotional well-being and mental health of children and young people in your care?

Our 2½ hour sessions will cover information sharing on the Together for Children and Young People Programme (T4CYP). With the opportunity to tell us more about your service and other services you know of for CYP across Wales and how you contribute to improving emotional well-being and mental health. If you know of any examples of where a service is working well please let us know so that we can share that knowledge and experience with others.

The T4CYP Programme board members are currently looking at grass roots service providers to inform third sector representatives on each of the work streams and discuss ways in which we can effectively continue to communicate.

The work streams and representatives are:

* Universal Resilience and Well-being – Christine Parker, Welsh Women’s Aid

* Early Intervention and Enhanced Support for Vulnerable Groups

* Addressing the needs of those with neuro-developmental issues and Learning Disabilities – Catriona Williams OBE, Children in Wales

* Workforce, Education and Training – Rhian Huws Williams, CEO, Care Council for Wales

* Care Transitions – Sara Payne, Barnardo’s Cymru

To find out more about the T4CYP Programme, please visit:

http://www.goodpractice.wales/t4cyp

http://bit.ly/2c8qSYT

http://bit.ly/2csZerv 

COST: Free

To reserve a space please click on your preferred location below:

North Wales, 27 October

FREE TRAINING

Wednesday 19th October 2016 – 10am – 12noon (Internet Safety – Keeping Children Safe Online)

All sessions will be delivered at

Venue: Colwyn Bay Town Hall, Rhiw Road, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7TE

 Open Sessions

Stop it Now! Wales are able to deliver the following training sessions for parents and professionals parenting or working with children and young people. Please see below for details of the sessions content

Please make contact on either the mobile number or email address below, giving the following information:

Name, Address, Phone number and email address of EACH participant.

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

Stop it Now AUTUMN training CONWY

Gillian Jones

Email: gjones@stopitnow.org.uk

Tel: 07803 629628

The theme of the Conference is ‘Seeing and Hearing the Child’

The conference takes place at Venue Cymru, Llandudno on Wednesday 12 October 2015 from 9:30-1:30. Registration will be from 9:00 onwards

There will be speakers from Barnardos and Little Voices. The North Wales Safeguarding Board is very excited to welcome these speakers to the Conference.

More details to follow……….

11 & 12 October, Rhyl – Book Online

A two-day course

All children have the right to live lives free from abuse and neglect but recent events highlight, yet again, how difficult it can be for so many adults to recognise, and act on concerns about the safety or welfare of a child.  The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all organisations concerned with children should work towards what’s best for each child.  The Designated Person for Child Protection has a vital role within organisations helping to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place and that necessary action is taken when concerns about a child are raised.

This two day training course will consider:  

• The role of the Designated Person and how this can be incorporated into your organisation
• Legislation and guidance on safeguarding children and young people, particularly within the Welsh context
• Essential safeguarding measures that need to be in place
• The ‘abuse of trust’ and how to remain alert to potential sexual offences within the organisation
• Assessing concerns about a child and making a referral to social services if necessary
• The statutory child protection system and what may be expected of you
• Confidentiality and good record keeping
• Diversity and the additional vulnerabilities for some children

About the Trainer

Claire Sharp, Senior Training Officer

Claire Sharp has worked with children and young people, in the voluntary and statutory sector, for over twenty years and currently works as Children in Wales’ Training Officer. Claire spent many years working in the field of domestic abuse, directly supporting children and young people in refuges and in the community, before moving on to manage Children’s Services at Welsh Women’s Aid. She has an ongoing interest in encouraging education and learning, in its broadest sense, having worked both as a primary teacher and in the supervision and assessment of student social workers in child and family teams.

Claire now trains practitioners from a variety of services, on a wide range of issues, including children’s rights and child protection. Claire has also delivered Early Support training, a programme aimed to improve recognition and support for disabled children and their families through a multi-agency approach with the child at the centre. Claire is a volunteer with UCAN Productions, a performance and creative arts co-operative for blind and partially sighted children, young people and their friends, supporting the children to have opportunities to play and socialise and develop skills and confidence.

Mike Mainwaring, Training Officer

Mike Mainwaring has worked with Children and Young People for over 20 years.  Specialising in substance misuse, youth homelessness, participation and children’s rights.  He is a qualified trainer and has trained children, young people and adults on substance misuse, LGBT issues, children’s rights, participation, dealing with difficult behaviour, safeguarding and child protection, Child Sexual Exploitation and boundaries.  He has also developed and run youth lead research projects.    He has worked in various settings such as street drug projects, residential rehabilitation, outreach work, play, youth work, manged housing projects and run youth councils.  He has an art background, working with young people in distress through the medium of art and exhibiting his own work about social issues.

COST:

Members £165                    Non members £195

Some of our previous course participants have made the following comments:

“Trainer made everything accessible. Trainer was very approachable and professional. Really thought provoking and I will be suggesting changes to policies and policies and practice on my return to work” 

“Excellent course with lots of really useful information. Good to meet others working in different areas” 

“The practical activities were really fun :). The relation to real life cases were good” 

“I will definitely be using some of the information supplied to pass onto colleagues/staff”

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact training@childreninwales.org.uk

for more information. 

29 September 2016 – Rhyl – Online Booking Form

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) involves under-18s in exploitative situations, contexts and relationships. Every year in Wales hundreds of children are being sexually exploited and in the wake of learning from Rotherham and other cities, Children in Wales is offering a one day course to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation.

This course gives anyone who works with children, young people and families the opportunity to know their statutory responsibilities in dealing with exploited children, how to identify children and young people who are at risk of CSE and spot the signs, definitions and models of CSE and professional responses within the Welsh context.

This one day course will consider:

• Definitions of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
• Who is at risk
• Who are the perpetrators
• Vulnerabilities and risk indicators
• Professionals Responses
• Legislation and Guidance on CSE
• SERAF – the Welsh response to CSE
• Consent
• Impact of CSE on children, families/carers and siblings
• Lessons from Rotherham
• Effective working and partnerships
• Prevention and Education

Who the course is aimed at:

Professionals and practitioners working with children, young people and families in social care, health and education, other statutory agencies, voluntary and third sector organisations.

Cost:  

Members £80        Non-members £100

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact training@childreninwales.org.uk for more information.

28/09/2016 | RHYL| 13:00 – 16:00

The workshop will explore participation and its relation to the UNCRC and Welsh legislation such as the Child Rights Measure, Children and Families Measure, Social Services and Wellbeing Act and Future Generations Act.  The session will explore practical ways of introducing participation and the skills needed to meaningfully engage young people.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Understanding Participation and how it enables Children’s Rights
• Explore Participation and its Legal Framework
• Gain practical skills on involving young people in your work

Who is it aimed at?

Practitioners, Managers and Policy Makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their area of work fits in with the bigger picture of child and family policy in Wales.  It will help organisations to prepare for predicted changes and to operate effectively within a multi-agency context.

The training is FREE and limited to TWO participants from each organisation only.

**CANCELLATIONS**

This is a FREE event, however there will be a charge of £50 for those delegates who book a place and do not attend. Cancellations will be accepted up to 2 days before the event. We will always accept substitutions if the named participant is unable to attend at short notice.

Understanding the links between alcohol and suicide  will be the topic of the annual conference of Alcohol Concern Cymru on 22nd September 2016  at the Grand Hotel, Swansea.

Each year in Wales, between 300 and 350 people die from suicide, about three times the number killed in road accidents. Alcohol use is often implicated in suicides and non-fatal self-harm. A fifth of all suicides are thought to be from people dependent on alcohol, and heavier drinkers are significantly more likely to suffer depression and anxiety. This one-day conference will encourage discussion of key questions including what exactly is the association between alcohol and suicide, who are the groups most at-risk, and how do we best offer support to family and friends after a suicide.

Conference delegates will hear from leading experts in the field, including Dr Eve Griffin from the National Suicide Research Foundation Ireland, Dr Ann John from Swansea University and Dr Roger T Webb from the Centre for Mental Health and Safety, Manchester.

FREE TRAINING

Wednesday 21st September 2016 – 6.30pm – 8.30pm (Parents Protect! Children with additional needs)

All sessions will be delivered at

Venue: Colwyn Bay Town Hall, Rhiw Road, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7TE

 Open Sessions

Stop it Now! Wales are able to deliver the following training sessions for parents and professionals parenting or working with children and young people. Please see below for details of the sessions content

Please make contact on either the mobile number or email address below, giving the following information:

Name, Address, Phone number and email address of EACH participant.

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

Stop it Now AUTUMN training CONWY

Gillian Jones

Email: gjones@stopitnow.org.uk

Tel: 07803 629628

FREE TRAINING

Wednesday 7th September 2016 – 10am – 12noon (Parents/Professionals Protect!)

All sessions will be delivered at

Venue: Colwyn Bay Town Hall, Rhiw Road, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7TE

 Open Sessions

Stop it Now! Wales are able to deliver the following training sessions for parents and professionals parenting or working with children and young people. Please see below for details of the sessions content

Please make contact on either the mobile number or email address below, giving the following information:

Name, Address, Phone number and email address of EACH participant.

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

Stop it Now AUTUMN training CONWY

Gillian Jones

Email: gjones@stopitnow.org.uk

Tel: 07803 629628

Tuesday, 2nd August 2016

Facilitators – Paul Jones & Megan Williams

Course Length – 09:30 – 12:00

Venue – Gorwel, Llangefni

Maximum Participants – 15 people per session

Course Aim :

An introduction to the Caring Dads programme and to discuss appropriate service users to be referred.

Caring Dads is devoted to ensuring the safety and well being of children through working with fathers who have abused and neglect their children or expose them to abuse of their mothers. Caring Dads is a child centred programme.

The Caring Dads program focuses on:-

 Helping men recognise attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that support healthy and unhealthy father-child relationships.

 Develop skills for interacting with children in healthy ways.

 Appreciate the impact on children of controlling, intimidating, abusive and neglectful actions including witnessing domestic violence.

To reserve your space on the above course please contact us on

01248 750903 or gorwel@gorwel.org

Or through Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caring-dads-awareness-training-tickets-26146523957

Thursday, 14 July 2016; 1:30pm – 4:30pm,

Cardiff

The workshop will explore participation and its relation to the UNCRC and Welsh legislation such as the Child Rights Measure, Children and Families Measure, Social Services and Wellbeing Act and Future Generations Act.  The session will explore practical ways of introducing participation and the skills needed to meaningfully engage children and young people.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• Understanding Participation and how it enables Children’s Rights
• Explore Participation and its Legal Framework
• Gain practical skills on involving children and young people

Who is it aimed at?

Practitioners, Managers and Policy Makers from all sectors and all organisations keen to explore how their area of work fits in with the bigger picture of child and family policy in Wales.  It will help organisations to prepare for predicted changes and to operate effectively within a multi-agency context.

The training is FREE and limited to 2 participants from each organisation.

To book a place in Cardiff, please click HERE

**CANCELLATIONS**

This is a FREE event, however there will be a charge of £50 for those delegates who book a place and do not attend. Cancellations will be accepted up to 2 days before the event. We will always accept substitutions if the named participant is unable to attend at short notice.

12 July 2016, Rhyl – Book Online

This one day course aims to deliver a balanced, non-sensationalist approach to help professionals inform and support parents in protecting children when using the internet.   The course is aimed at a wide variety of practitioners working with children and families including those working for Families First, Communities First, Flying Start and foster carers.

Many parents today feel unable to protect their children online. They feel powerless when faced with a technology they do not fully understand while their children seem completely at home with hi- tech, web enabled gadgets. How can people working with families help parents to better protect their children?

With a constant flow of stories about online abuse in the media some parents may overreact restricting access to everything, while others just feel overwhelmed, keep their fingers crossed and hope it won’t happen to their child.  Is there a safe way for children to use the internet’s opportunities for learning and fun, while also avoiding the risks?  How can we help parents support their children’s safe use of modern technology?

The course will look at some of the real risks and dangers and debate the concerns, while also dispelling some of the myths and hoaxes.  There will be an opportunity for practitioners to discuss issues that parents are raising and to have some hands on experience at creating safe settings on some of the most popular devices used by children.