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From January 2021 Services For Education will be providing the safeguarding subscription for all schools in Birmingham.
We are launching a digital service that all schools and settings can use to develop, support and enhance their own safeguarding expertise and practice. We have worked with colleagues in BCC and within schools to tailor the support.
This really is the best way for your school to stay up to date with safeguarding training and knowledge throughout the year.
LOCAL AND NATIONAL EXPERTISE
Our award-winning team of advisers are highly experienced and work with over 1,200 senior safeguarding staff each year. If you’re based in Birmingham, you will no doubt recognise them!
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
Connect and share practice with other schools who are also committed to making Birmingham a safer place for children.
what's included in the subscription?
Video based training on the key topics in KCSIE, and wider safeguarding issues and areas of concern e.g. Domestic Abuse and its effects upon children, ‘so-called’ Honour based Abuse (incl FGN, forced marriage, breast ironing).
Video based training to cover the safeguarding training requirements of all staff based on KCSIE 2020.
For some topics, additional training which will look at how this topic can be included in the curriculum and ideas for teaching this (in an age appropriate manner).
A series of short, practical ‘how to’ video guides, based on KCSIE Annex B on Role of DSL, aimed at new DSLs and addressing a range of practice based issues, for example, aspects of safer working practice, information sharing and safeguarding, working with your SG Governor, how to develop the vulnerable child list.
Video based training to cover the training requirements of Governing bodies and their duties in relation to safeguarding.
A variety of other updates and resources shared throughout the year, including blogs, visual resources and signposts to important statutory documents and updates.
Membership of our community. We will be working on a way to bring DSLs from Birmingham together to share best practice and ask advice in a private, safe environment.
topics that will be covered over a two-year subscription
1. Child Sexual Exploitation
2. Child Criminal Exploitation: County Lines
3. Contextual safeguarding
4. Domestic Abuse
5. So called ‘honour based violence (including FGM and Forced Marriage)
6. Preventing Radicalisation
7. Peer on Peer Abuse
8. Sexual Violence and Sexual Harrassment
9. Serious Case Reviews
10. Public Sector Equality Duty
11. Bullying
12. Safer Working Practice
13. Children and the Court System
14. Children Missing From Education
15. Children with Family Members in Prison
pricing structure
We have three pricing levels for schools, depending on how many licenses you need. For example, if you have only up to 10 DSLs who need to access safeguarding training and resources, our middle package would work best at £600 per year.
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1 License
£350 per year
10
10 Licenses
£600 per year
20
20 Licenses
£900 per year
about services for education
Services For Education annually provides safeguarding training to over 1000 senior leaders and governors, and has provided the majority of safeguarding training to Birmingham schools for 25 years.
We work closely with BCC and contribute to a number of city– wide strategic groups. We have won multiple awards for our work with schools were winners of the including the 2019 GBCC Award for Excellence in Training and Education.
our safeguarding courses
Browse our safeguarding offer below, or see our full range of training courses here. All courses will take place online until further notice.
Online Course
£10.00
£10.00
£50.00
Leadership and Management
Update for Existing DSLs on Safeguarding and Child Protection
Multiple Dates
£140.00
Safeguarding
Safeguarding and Child Protection for Designated Safeguarding Leads (Two Day Course)
Multiple Dates
£500.00
Leadership and Management
Safeguarding and Child Protection for Headteachers and Nominated Governors
Multiple Dates
£260.00
£260.00
£260.00
Leadership and Management
Specific Issues and Topics in Safeguarding – Whole Staff Inset Training
Leadership and Management
Safeguarding and Child Protection Whole Staff Inset Training
£260.00
Mental Health and Wellbeing
£25.00
NEW FREE WEBINARS
Our advisers can also work in your school to deliver bespoke training sessions to meet your schools exact specific needs. To discuss your training requirements please email hello@servicesforeducation.co.uk
about the team
Senior Adviser, Services For Education
Sandra is a Senior Adviser in the School Support Service and has extensive experience in safeguarding, health and wellbeing and evidence based practice. She has worked nationally with key government departments (Departments of Health and Education) to help shape strategy and policy whilst still retaining the focus on working for the best outcomes for children and young people.
She has a PhD on the psychology of health related choices which has informed the development of award winning, evidence based programmes such as Health for Life in primary schools and Health for Life in nursery schools which have been proven to have a sustainable impact on improving the health and wellbeing of children and families.
Sandra has for many years been a lead in developing and delivering the DSL (Designated Safeguarding Lead) training that trains and supports all headteachers, senior leaders and other staff. She has been pivotal in expanding the remit of the safeguarding work to also include issues such as domestic abuse and sexual violence and harassment within the education context.
Sandra passion for improving the lives of children has lead her to develop work within Public Health and managed RCT (Randomised Control Trials) on the effectiveness of interventions such as the daily mile. She is also working with colleagues both locally and nationally to reduce health inequalities in children both in early years and primary schools. Additionally Sandra has written books for teachers and pupils as well as peer reviewed academic journal papers.
Adviser, Services For Education
Jo Perrin taught PSHE in schools for over a decade and held the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead and pastoral lead. She currently works as an Education Adviser for Services For Education which allows her to combine her experience in schools with a personal knowledge of child protection and childhood trauma as a foster carer.
In addition, Jo worked as a West Midlands’ Adviser for a national PSHE resource, has delivered a presentation to the Sex Education Forum National Members’ Event and has created a variety of RSE resources as part of her role for Services For Education.
Jo’s advisory experience is not limited to training school staff as she works with non-education based organisations to support them in safeguarding and emotional health and well-being aims and is an affiliated trainer for Mental Health At Work.
Adviser, Services For Education
Over a career spanning 20 years, Tricia has been involved in primary Education in a variety of contexts – as a teacher; senior leader; headteacher (within an LEA and within an Academy) and teacher educator. She is an experienced, successful headteacher, having led two schools since 2010.
For three years Tricia was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Wolverhampton. In this role she was Module leader for English and Lead Tutor for the PGCE. Tricia is part of our School improvement team and is a tutor on the SFE primary initial teacher training programme.
She is the Lead English Adviser and co-leads on our curriculum development programme. Another key part of her most recent work has been embedding an understanding of cognitive theory into CPD, and ensuring this is the basis of work going forward.
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