UPDATED JUNE 2024

SAFER WORKING PRACTICES – LONE WORKING
Duration: 20 Mins

In this webinar Jo Perrin looks at a part of Safer Working Practices that we don’t always think about. She explains the responsibilities of both employers and employees in this regard and considers how anyone in the children’s workforce might, at some point, become a “lone worker”.

UPDATED JUNE 2024

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS
Duration: 17 Mins

In this webinar Jo Perrin looks at the extra challenges we may face when safeguarding children with a range of additional needs. She covers some of the extra considerations we may need to take into account that make some children even more vulnerable, how intersectionality plays a part in the responses we give, how some children may not easily “tell” about abuse and neglect and why adults may not seemingly “listen”. She covers how we can address this in our settings through policy and curriculum.

UPDATED JUNE 2024

THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
Duration: 27 Mins

In this webinar Jo Perrin looks at the power of language in safeguarding, why our choice of terminology matters and give examples of what we should be looking out for in relation to what language helps and hinders our work in supporting vulnerable children and their families.

UPDATED JUNE 2024

EMOTIONAL NEUTRALITY
Duration: 8 Mins

Jo Perrin discusses ideas about how we all hold conscious and unconscious bias and can bring those ideas and stereotypes to situations in our professional lives. The importance of coming to a situation emotionally neutral and how that can alter our responses and perception is raised.

WHO ACTS AND WHEN? IDENTIFYING VULNERABILITY
Duration: 8 Mins

This webinar looks at when we expect our staff to recognise that Early Help might be needed and then what is our ongoing mechanism to ascertain levels of cumulative risk. We discuss how we, as staff, notice change and how we monitor changing risk over time.

UPDATED JULY 2024

HOW TO ENABLE ADULTS TO LISTEN TO CHILDREN
Duration: 4 Mins

This webinar covers how to design an environment that promotes listening to children, how to capture the voice of the child and how we can measure progress/success.

UPDATED JUNE 2024

KNOWING YOUR SETTING’S CONTEXT
Duration: 18 Mins

This webinar covers the importance of really knowing the context, geographically and socially, of your setting.

SAFER WORKING PRACTICES
Duration: 13 Mins

This webinar covers safer working practices and how this relates to the overall culture of keeping children safe in your setting.

EARLY HELP – WHEN DO WE NEED TO ACT?
Duration: 40 Mins

This webinar is a guide to implementing Early Help strategies using a case study based approach. It includes case studies, highlighting how and when interventions and Early Help were implemented. This webinar is designed for team discussion and is perfect for staff meetings or meetings of safeguarding teams.

UPDATED JUNE 2024

PROFESSIONAL CURIOSITY
Duration: 21 Mins

This webinar examines what we mean by professional curiosity, why we all need to use it when working with children, and what the possible pitfalls are that mean we don’t always use it fully to keep children safe.

SAFEGUARDING IN THE CURRICULUM
Duration: 21 Mins

This covers the importance of teaching about safeguarding in the primary and secondary curriculum, to empower children and young people to recognise and respond to situations where they might not feel or be safe.