Training Courses
Safeguarding Responsibilities, Threshold Guidance & Referral Process (Level 2)
This online blended course is designed to help participants understand safeguarding responsibilities, thresholds and referral procedures.
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Safeguarding in Practice - Working Together to Safeguard Children - Multi-agency approach to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of children - Designated Safeguarding Leads - Only (Level 3 Training)
This workshop is part of a programme of learning events that practitioners and professionals, working with children, can access to support their learning at level 3. A full programme of events will be available for staff to access according to their learning needs.
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Refreshed Child Exploitation LEVEL 1 (eLearning)
This is a prevalent topic for those working within children, young people and families, and this course aims to give an overview of what child exploitation (CE) really is. Within the course you will look at how to identify some of the signs that might be occurring when a child or young person is being exploited, county lines and the process of grooming.
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Child Exploitation LEVEL 2 Training
This training is aimed at those practitioners who are working with children and young people who are part of the development of plans for children or at risk or experiencing child exploitation.
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National Child Exploitation Awareness Day 18 March 2024
As part of the awareness raising of child exploitation, the CSCP will be delivering a bitesize learning session to encourage everyone to think about and spot the signs of child exploitation.
The training session will take place on Monday 18th March 2024, 12:45-2:15pm, via Microsoft Teams and will cover:
- What is child exploitation, a basic understanding
- What to do if a child is being exploited
- Understand the role of the Complex Safeguarding Team
- Understand the Police response to child exploitation
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
NWG Mind Your Language - Exploitation and Victim Blaming Webinars
The CSCP are working with NWG to deliver four webinars on Mind Your Language: Exploitation and Victim Blaming over the next few months. The aim of the webinars is to explore our practice to ensure we accurately and sensitively record and report of victim experiences.
- further dates tbc
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NWG The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) – What? Why? How?
The CSCP as part of their ongoing specialist training opportunities have commissioned NWG to deliver a short 2 hour course on The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) – What? Why? How?. The course will explain what the NRM is including what happens when a child becomes an adult and submitting additional information, how the NRM benefits children and where it fits in legislation before taking you step by step through completing an NRM referral.
The course is aimed at practitioners working with children and young people and who may be at risk of child exploitation/modern slavery.
The training will be delivered by Karen Laing from NWG and will take place on
- further dates tbc
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Cumberland Council and Westmorland & Furness Council, in partnership with SafeLives, are offering the training opportunity to complete ‘Responding Well’ Domestic Abuse Training.
- SafeLives are a UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good. They are independent, practical and evidence-led, with survivor voice at the heart of our thinking. They work with organisations across the UK to transform the response to domestic abuse.
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Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP) are providing FREE Domestic Abuse Workshops across the County.
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How to Support Children and Families with Early Help - Signs of Wellbeing Level 2 Training.
The aim of this training is to increase knowledge and enable practitioners to work more effectively with children, young people and their families using Early Help, and identify needs early to give all children the opportunity to thrive and succeed.
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Whole System Workforce Development Offer Support
This offer has been developed since 2015 and is based upon feedback from professionals, staff and volunteers working with children and young people (CYP) in Cumbria, across our ‘Whole System’ and outside of Specialist CAMHS.
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Are you aware of your responsibilities in informing the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) of all allegations against adults who work with children ?
This bitesize session is an opportunity to meet the LADO team manager Paul Cooper who will explain your responsibility and how to inform the LADO as set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018.
- Tuesday 26th March 2024 (1-1.45pm) via MS Teams
To book your place on this course please
To book your place, all Council staff log into MyLearning and search for the specific course. All non-council users are required to log into MyLearning, those that haven't registered already please create a new account, following the guidance on the website.
IMPORTANT INFORMATON: can all participants please join the training event 10 minutes before the start time to allow being admitted onto the course.
When booking onto this training please DO NOT share the Microsoft TEAMs link with anyone else, as numbers are restricted. This has a serious impact on delivery of the training and the numbers attending.
For any queries about the course, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
As part of the CSCP launch of the Neglect Strategy, we are offering a range of bitesize master classes on a variety of aspects of neglect.
Each session will be delivered via Microsoft Teams by Rebecca Brown, Research in Practice (RIP) and will include a presentation of the most up to date research, opportunities for practitioners to reflect and share ideas with one another and resources to support practice.
- further dates tbc
This workshop is intended for all professionals working with children who wish to improve their knowledge of parental mental health and the impact on the child.
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Please access the link below to a recorded learning session (YouTube video) about Professional Curiosity
A trauma informed approach to safeguarding children in a multi - agency context.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION - This training is only for Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL's) in schools.
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