ASSESSING NEEDS – WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO AND FOR THE CHILD AND FAMILY

This webinar looks at how DSLs can encourage a culture that effectively assesses children’s safeguarding needs. It look at:

• What are the processed for assessing need?
• How do we understand what is important for the child?
• The importance of time to review the impact of our actions.

The webinar lasts 5 minutes.

CHILDREN WITH A SAFEGUARDING VULNERABILITY

This webinar covers:

• How to define a safeguarding vulnerability
• Links between safeguarding vulnerabilities and attendance, SEND, EHCP and educational outcomes

The webinar lasts 6 minutes.

COMMUNICATING WITH STATUTORY PARTNERS

This webinar covers the role of the DSL in ensuring that statutory reporting is informed by your whole school safeguarding system. It covers:

• Who you need to involve
• How to involve different partners

The webinar lasts 5 minutes.

CONTEXTUAL SAFEGUARDING

This 35 minute webinar covers the issue of contextual safeguarding and highlights what we need to be looking out for in relation to the risks and outside influences that may be present in the lives of the young people we work with.

It looks at the role of schools in noticing and describing those risk factors, behaviours and signs and the importance of sharing information with other professionals and how we can empower young people themselves and work with their families

DEFENSIBLE DECISION MAKING FOR DSLS

This webinar is for all DSLs and deputy DSLs involved in making safeguarding decisions. It covers:

• What is a defensible decision?
• What influences our decisions?
• Information gathering
• How to analyse information
• Recording your decision
• How we can move from novice to experienced practitioner.

The webinar lasts 51 minutes but you may want to pause the video and discuss issues raised so you may need to allow additional time for discussion.

This 7 minute good practice video guide for DSLs considers your safeguarding partners as part of a whole school safeguarding system, focusing on what it is they contribute to your school.

This 7 minute video will talk about your responsibilities to partner organisations, and how you can evidence that you are implementing Keeping Children Safe in Education.

DOMESTIC ABUSE – PART ONE

This webinar is for all staff. The main focus is on raising awareness and links with safeguarding so it covers:

• Context and definition of domestic abuse
• Seeing the impact of domestic abuse through the eyes of the child
• Links with safeguarding
• How perpetrators use coercive control
• What schools can do in terms of child protection, safeguarding, early help

The webinar lasts 55 minutes but you may want to pause the video and discuss issues raised so may need to allow additional time for this.

DOMESTIC ABUSE – PART TWO

This webinar is for all teaching staff and SLT. The main focus is on how to support children and to prevent DV. So we look at how to integrate Domestic abuse into the curriculum and pastoral support in the school. This follows on from Domestic abuse Part 1. This webinar covers:

• Safeguarding
• School ethos and values
• Equality
• Human Rights; Rights of the Child
• Sexual violence and harassment
• Curriculum
• Behaviour
• Listening school

The webinar lasts 52 minutes but you may want to pause the video and discuss issues raised so may need to allow additional time for this.

EARLY HELP – WHO HELPS AND WHEN?

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.

The case studies include:

• Both primary and secondary examples
• Children of a range of ages and backgrounds
• Implementation of in-school strategies as well as seeking external support.

This webinar is 41 minutes long, and is designed for pausing and discussing throughout.

EFFECTIVE TEAM WORKING FOR DESIGNATED SAFEGUARDING LEADS IN YOUR SETTING

This webinar covers how schools can best organise their safeguarding teams and gives tips on how to work together. This includes:

• Organising your DSL team – who does what?
• Which staff require specific training
• How to best support and utilise one another within the team.

This webinar lasts 17 Minutes, but can be paused throughout to discuss how your safeguarding team works within your setting.

EMOTIONAL NEUTRALITY

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.

HOW TO ENABLE ADULTS TO LISTEN TO CHILDREN

This webinar covers

• How to design an environment that promotes listening to children
• How to capture the voice of the child
• How can we measure progress/success

The webinar lasts 4 minutes.

HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICE

This webinar covers how to work effectively with your own (external) family support worker. It covers:

• What family support is
• Benefits to the school
• The range of issues that can be supported
• What family support cannot do
• How family support works in practice and who needs to be involved
• Further information

The webinar lasts 25 minutes.

FGM, FORCED MARRIAGE AND HONOUR BASED ABUSE

This webinar is for all staff. The main focus is on raising awareness and links with safeguarding and covers:

• Female Genital Mutilation – FGM
• Breast Flattening / Breast Ironing
• Forced Marriage
• So called ‘Honour’ Based Abuse
• For each of these aspects it covers:
  • Definitions
  • The law
  • Origins and traditions
  • Myths and facts
  • What to do if you are worried
  • Links with child protection and safeguarding

The webinar lasts 62 minutes but you may want to pause the video and discuss issues raised so may need to allow additional time for this.

ADDRESSING FGM IN THE CURRICULUM

This webinar is for all teaching staff and SLT. The main focus is on how to support children and to prevent FGM. So we look at how to integrate FGM into the curriculum and pastoral support in the school. This follows on from the Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriage and ‘Honour’ Based Abuse webinar. This webinar covers:

• Safeguarding
• Equality
• Human Rights; Rights of the Child
• Violence Against Women and Girls strategy
• Bodily integrity
• Curriculum
• Consent

The webinar lasts 36 minutes but you may want to pause the video and discuss issues raised so may need to allow additional time for this.

FOCUS ON NEGLECT

Describing it as one of the most common types of abuse but often the hardest to spot, the discussion is around what we want staff to notice and record and how our accuracy in description can lead to a child getting help or living with abuse for longer.

HOW TO EVIDENCE CHANGE

HOW COVID-19 AFFECTED SAFEGUARDING – A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON COUNTY LINES

Here we look at how specific safeguarding issues are not static, the risk to children is ever-changing and we must be alert to new signs and symptoms to note. The example is in how county-lines drug-running operations adapted through periods of lock-down and how that changed (but didn’t eliminate) risk to children.

INFORMATION SHARING

This webinar covers the basic principles around information sharing in relation to safeguarding. It covers:

• Legal requirements
• Why people might not share information
• 7 Golden Rules of information sharing
• How to record decisions on information sharing

The webinar lasts 9 minutes.

KNOWING YOUR SETTING’S CONTEXT

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

• Who makes up your setting’s community?
• What are the risks children face in the area?
• How do you know?
• What are the nature of concerns that come through from staff?
• What support is out there?

The webinar lasts 18 minutes.

PROFESSIONAL CURIOSITY

This 21 minute 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.

RADICALISATION AND EXTREMISM

Lucie Welch has produced this longer webinar, suitable for all staff, looking at the key terminology around this topic and what it is that we want all staff to be looking out for. She reminds staff by using data and examples of what risk we might encounter in our settings and what we want staff to notice, including the rise of extreme far-right extremism over recent years, religious extremism and the rise of the “incel” culture.

The webinar gives examples of pathways to radicalisation and how vulnerabilities might increase risks a child might be radicalised. Indicators and warning signs for all staff to know are shared and PREVENT and CHANNEL are referenced throughout.

SAFEGUARDING AND CHILD PROTECTION UPDATE FOR GOVERNORS

Our newest Education Adviser, Marsha Blissett, has written a webinar specifically for governors around their safeguarding duties.

This role has recently increased in prominence due to wording changes in KCSIE 2022 and Marsha leads you through the changes and what governors need to know and do.

To enable all of your staff to access this video, please share this link and password:

Link: www.servicesforeducation.co.uk/safeguarding-for-governors-22/
Password:2022vW5ZsTcC!

*Please do not share outside of your setting.*

SAFEGUARDING FOR OFFICE STAFF

This webinar is for staff based in school or education settings’ offices. It is complementary to the regular safeguarding training that all school staff should attend. It covers the role of admin and office staff in safeguarding including:

• Attendance
• Visitors and parents
• First aid
• Single Central Record
• Clarity in recording and reporting.

The webinar lasts 32 minutes but you may want to pause the video and discuss issues raised so may need to allow additional time for this.

SAFEGUARDING AND CHILD PROTECTION INSET

This webinar is for all staff.

This session is designed for whole staff groups and covers the key essentials and principles of safeguarding and child protection in an educational setting including the updated Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The webinar lasts about 30 minutes but you may want to pause the video and discuss issues raised so may need to allow additional time for this.

To enable all of your staff to access this video, please share this link and password:

Link: https://www.servicesforeducation.co.uk/safeguarding-inset/
Password: SGSUBSINSET2022

*Please do not share outside of your setting.*

SAFEGUARDING IN THE CURRICULUM

This 21 minute webinar 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.

10 SAFEGUARDING PITFALLS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

This webinar cover the ten most common errors in the initial stages of the safeguarding process.

It looks at:

• Why do the pitfalls occur?
• What can be done to prevent/minimise these pitfalls?

The webinar lasts 12 minutes.

SAFER WORKING PRACTICES

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

• What safer working practice means
• Health and Safety Considerations
• Lone Working
• How this contributes to safeguarding children
• Further information

The webinar lasts 13 minutes.

SETTING PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS

This 38 minute webinar will look at the definitions of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment and highlight their prevalence within schools and education settings.

It explains the role of governors in supporting schools to identify, challenge and eradicate sexual abuse within their settings.

SOLUTION FOCUSED DECISION MAKING

This webinar covers an approach to tackling difficult decisions. It covers:

• How to identify the problem
• How to identify the problem holder
• What national and local guidance may be useful
• Plan, do and review

The webinar lasts 5 minutes.

WHO ACTS AND WHEN? IDENTIFYING VULNERABILITY

This Good Practice Guide 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.

WORKING WITH PARENTS AND CARERS EFFECTIVELY

This webinar is aimed at DSLs, Senior Leadership teams, Pastoral Leads and other staff who work closely with parents. If focuses on building strong, non-judgemental relationships with parents and how to focus support on children and their parents when things are unsettled at home.

This includes:

• Working with separated parents
• Supporting children with parents in prison
• Engaging sporadic or reluctant parents
• Supporting the children of parents with mental health or substance abuse issues.

This webinar lasts for 44 minutes, but you may wish to pause the video and discuss issues raised so you may need to allow additional time for discussion.

WORKING WITH THE SAFEGUARDING GOVERNOR

This webinar covers the basic principles around the role of the Safeguarding Governors/Nominated Governor and how the DSL can work with this Governor to improve safeguarding in the education setting. It covers:

• Role of Safeguarding Governor
• How to work together to ensure that safeguarding is
  • Compliant
  • Improving

The webinar lasts 7 minutes.