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CYSCP training guidance
Training from other partners
These courses, from a variety of providers, aim to provide practitioners with a basic awareness of the issue concerned.
Some may require an account to be created, and some may make a charge. Most provide a certificate on successful completion.
City of York Safeguarding Children Partnership does not host, endorse or have any responsibility for these external courses.
- Adverse Childhood Experiences - ACEs
- Animal Welfare in Violent Homes
- Anti-Bullying
- Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines
- Child Sexual Exploitation
- Children's Mental Health
- Disability
- Domestic Abuse
- Female Genital Mutilation - FGM
- Forced Marriage Awareness
- ICON - Babies Cry, You Can Cope
- Identifying and responding to intra-familial child sexual abuse
- MAPPA
- Modern Slavery
- NSPCC - Listen up, Speak up
- Prevent Awareness
- Prevent Referrals
- Prevent Channel Process
- Safeguarding Children with SEND
- Suicide Prevention
- Whole Approach System to addressing Abusive Behaviours - 'Hard to Help' training
Adverse Childhood Experiences - ACEs
Xelerate Learning provide An Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences Early Trauma online training for practitioners, professionals and volunteers who work with children, young people and families.
This course covers the following topics:
- introduction to ACEs
- brain development in Early Years
- the impact of childhood adversity
- social, health and community impacts of ACEs Early Trauma
- protective factors
- looking at ACEs through a trauma informed lens
- building resilience
An Introduction to ACEs Early Trauma
Animal Welfare in Violent Homes
This course, provided by Virtual College, has been developed as a result of significant research findings, which show that “When animals are abused, people are at risk; when people are abused, animals are at risk.”
This free safeguarding course has been designed to help frontline staff understand the link between family abuse and animal abuse, and is aimed at all professionals working with families with pets and will help them to recognise those at risk of physical and mental abuse
Understanding Animal Welfare in Violent Homes
Anti-Bullying
The Anti-Bullying Alliance provide a suite of training for anyone that works with children and young people.
The programme was particularly developed to reduce levels of bullying of disabled children and those with special educational needs, but applies to all children. It also includes cyberbullying.
Free Online Anti-Bullying Training
Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines
This free 20 to 30 minute e-learning course, provided by Ivison trust, is an introduction to understanding about how children are groomed and criminally exploited, and is for parents and professionals who work alongside children and young people.
Know more about county lines and other forms of child criminal exploitation:
- know the signs and indicators of child criminal exploitation
- appreciate the impact child criminal exploitation has on families
- understand what to do if you suspect a child might be at risk
Iveson Trust - Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines
Child Sexual Exploitation
This free 20 to 30 minute e-learning course, provided by Ivison trust, is an introduction to child sexual exploitation and is for parents and professionals who work alongside children and young people:
- understand child sexual exploitation
- find out how to spot the signs
- know who to report any concerns to
Children's Mental Health
MindEd offers a very comprehensive website of online learning packages.
There is a universal suite of courses as well as learning paths aimed at those professionals in education, health, social care and child minders. Topics include self-harm, digital risk, learning disabilities amongst many others.
Disability
Disability Matters is a free e-learning resource for the UK workforce. It consists of 3 programmes:
- Disability Matters: all Disability Matters e-learning sessions
- Disability Matters Learning Packages: e-learning sessions that have been grouped together to meet particular learning needs
- Disability Matters Resources: Face-to-face training resource packs
Disability Matters E-learning catalogue
Type 'safeguarding' into the Disability Matters search box to bring up relevant courses.
Domestic Abuse
IDAS have provided Domestic Abuse Basic Awareness training. This beginners training course is aimed at individuals in organisations and voluntary groups who work with adults and children or young people, to give a basic awareness of issues surrounding domestic abuse.
IDAS - Domestic Abuse Essential Training
Bitesize further courses are also available which are provided by IDAS.
Female Genital Mutilation - FGM
This course, provided by the Home Office, is useful for anyone who is interested in gaining an overview of FGM, particularly frontline staff in healthcare, police, border force and children’s social care.
FGM - Home Office & Virtual College
Forced Marriage Awareness
This online course has been developed with the Forced Marriage Unit of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and aims to raise awareness, challenge perceptions and inform you of the correct actions to take should you suspect someone is at risk.
This course is aimed at all professionals who have a responsibility to safeguard vulnerable children, young people and adults at risk and is aimed specifically at child protection services, health professionals, education professionals, police officers, children’s social care, adult social care and housing authorities.
Awareness of Forced Marriages & Virtual College
ICON - Babies Cry, You Can Cope
The ICON - Babies Cry, You Can Cope training is designed to equip you with the knowledge, information and skills that you will need to discuss ICON: ‘Babies cry, you can cope’ with parents and carers.
The training will help you to:
- share the message that crying in babies is normal
- support parents/carers to soothe their baby
- support parents to cope with a baby’s crying
- understand more about Abusive Head Trauma
- understand it is a form of child abuse
This training is provided by ICON and York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and is only available to employees within the Trust.
Identifying and responding to intra-familial child sexual abuse
The short, introductory eLearning course on Identifying and responding to intra-familial child sexual abuse from the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is designed to help those in social work, policing, education, healthcare and beyond to recognise when children might be showing them that something is wrong and understand how to help.
The course is designed for anyone working with children to understand what intra-familial child sexual abuse is, provide guidance on how to identify concerns and build knowledge and confidence in how to respond to support both children and their wider family.
Victims and survivors of intra-familial child sexual abuse can and do recover from their abuse, especially when supported by professionals who show care and compassion, facilitate choice, control and safety, and are trained to best support them and their wider families.
The introductory course takes just 90 minutes to complete, is entirely free and consists of 3 engaging modules, with interactive tasks, video explainers and a final assessment. It’s designed for professionals at all stages of their career; for those new to safeguarding, or as a helpful refresher.
CSA - Identifying and responding to intra-familial child sexual abuse
MAPPA
This MAPPA Training, which is provided by the Probation Service, will support those who attend Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) meetings and anyone who works with violent or sexual offenders to raise individual awareness of Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements, practice guidance and policy.
It aims to help professionals consider the appropriateness of MAPPA in assisting the management of those risks posed by an individual to the public, known adult, children, staff and prisoners.
MAPPA Training - log in or sign up
Modern Slavery
This online resource from the Department of Health and Social Care provides an overview of the issue of modern slavery. It is aimed at helping all frontline healthcare staff recognise the signs that someone has been trafficked, and to take appropriate action with confidence.
Modern Slavery - E-learning for Healthcare
NSPCC - Listen up, Speak up
The NSPCC are encouraging every adult in the UK to register for their 10-minute digital training.
Half a million children suffer abuse and neglect a year in the UK. But there's something we can all do to change that.
Listen up and learn a little with this NSPCC training. It will show you where to go if you need support, and how to speak up for children who need it. Because that little bit of knowledge can help keep a lot of children safe.
Listen up, Speak up digital training
Prevent Awareness
This online training, provided by the Home Office, offers an introduction to the Prevent duty, and explains how it aims to safeguard vulnerable people from being radicalised to supporting terrorism or becoming terrorists themselves.
Prevent Referrals
This package, provided by the Home Office, builds on the Prevent awareness e-learning training. It is designed to make sure that when we share a concern that a
vulnerable individual may be being radicalised, that the referral is robust, informed and with good intention, and that the response to that concern is considered, and proportionate.
Prevent Channel Process
This training package, provided by the Home Office, is for anyone who may be asked to contribute to, sit on, or even run a Channel Panel.
It's aimed at all levels, from a professional asked to input and attend for the first time, to a member of staff new to their role and organising a panel meeting.
Prevent Channel or Prevent Multi-Agency Panel course
Safeguarding Children with SEND
NSPCC Learning run an introductory course for school/education staff who work with children who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and additional needs.
Adults who work with children and young people with SEND should be aware of the additional needs children may have that could mean they are more vulnerable to abuse and/or less able to speak out if something isn’t right.
There is a £25 charge for this course.
Safeguarding children with SEND training
Suicide Prevention
Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) offer various suicide awareness courses for professionals.
Their free online training courses teach professionals the skills and confidence to have a potentially life-saving conversation with someone you’re worried about.
Whole Approach System to addressing Abusive Behaviours - 'Hard to Help' training
North Yorkshire Horizons provide ‘Hard to help’ training for anyone working in public services in North Yorkshire and York. It is free, easy to book, and will give you confidence in spotting domestic violence and helping perpetrators seek support. Bitesize modules on Mental Health, Drink and Drugs, Dual Diagnosis and Trauma can be added to your training.
The courses are delivered online and additional online resources are available once you have completed the training.
The training is delivered over a 2 and a half hour session split into 3 parts:
- DA awareness, including ‘Rurality’ to raise awareness of the picture in North Yorkshire
- Getting to know and understand perpetrators
- How to engage perpetrators in support, including using DASH for identified victims
Individual workers can book themselves onto the course or team managers can arrange for their whole team to attend:
The Platform features a Core Training Toolkit plus a log in function to allow access to the full Hard to Help training resources library.