Key Learnings:

Recognise the important link between management oversight and staff working to promote best outcomes in safeguarding children & young people.
Outline the relevant legislation and guidance central to the Child Protection Lead role
Understand how to manage concerns and the referral process in relation to safeguarding and protecting children and young people.

This event is for people who have a lead role and responsibility within their organisation for Child Protection practice. This would include responsibilities for management oversight and the development of policies and learning. Prior to attending this course, it is expected that you will have grounding in child protection practice, and have previously completed child protection training course/s.

This interactive training course will provide learners with the skills and knowledge required to carry out the role and responsibilities of the Child Protection Lead. The themes of the day include a focus on legislation and guidance, referral procedures and supporting and responding to staff & volunteers thereby developing confidence in the role and promoting best practice in safeguarding children and young people.

Please note: This course has some prior reading and exercises designed to enhance your learning and the group discussion. To strengthen the learning experience for yourself and other participants, it is expected that this is completed prior to the training. This pretraining reading and exercise will take approximately 1 hour. It is accessible via the Virtual Event Hub linked on your ticket.

Facilitator

Barnardo’s believes in children. Our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children. We support them, stand up for them and bring out the best in each and every child who needs us the most.

Barnardo’s Scotland is a recognised, respected and established charity, and we run more than 122 community-based services working with over 16,500 children, young people and families every year, on a wide range of themes including: family support, domestic abuse, disability, fostering and adoption, education and employability, substance use and advocacy. Our services are firmly embedded in their local communities, united by a common focus; improving outcomes for the most vulnerable children.

Member Tickets

We are delighted to now offer our Members a discount across all Children in Scotland trainings.

This training will be £99 for Members and £129 for non-members.

To access the free member ticket, please input your promo code when booking via the ‘Discount or access code’ function. If you are unsure whether your organisation are members, please check the list below. If your organisation does appear on the list of members below but you do not know your promo code, please ask your organisation or drop us an email.

Organisations, click here to see current members.

Become a member of Children in Scotland

Children in Scotland is the largest national membership organisation for the children’s sector in the country. To access discounted trainings and many other membership benefits including exclusive content and resources, and discounted commissioned training, please visit here.

Local authorities in membership with Children in Scotland

Please note that all local authority staff working from both headquarter and regional offices including senior management are included in membership and can register as members for discounted training with Children in Scotland. Membership does not extend to schools and nurseries within individual local authorities.

Members are responsible for applying their discount at the time of purchasing a ticket, discounts cannot be applied after the ticket has been purchased.

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