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**CHILD PROTECTION PRACTICE (level
2)**
SAFEGUARDING & PROMOTING THE
WELFARE OF CHILDREN
Please see our Risk
Options section
Note for Osiris
College customers: this course is
available as an Osiris College buy a place course. It is a
one day introduction to child protection practice but at a level higher than the
basic level 1. It is intended for mainly
professional staff in contact with children or young people and who require a
higher level of knowledge about the child protection system than is afforded by
our one day introductory course. This course is not suitable for the
general public unless you are in a special position of possibly making referrals
through to social care. Please note that we do not use images of children having
suffered maltreatment in this training.
This one day course is designed to
locate child protection within the context of local policy on Child Protection.
It is intended for staff who already have completed the equivalent of our Introduction
to Child Protection course. Both courses can be combined into a two day
course and we have run this two day event as "Safeguarding and Promoting
the Welfare of Children" many times.
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Locating safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children within
the historical context and the Children Act
and Departmental
procedures - the law and child protection.
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The role of the LSCB and other Agency roles, responsibilities and
production of CP procedures based on the
Government publication “Working Together.”
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Be able to use and reference Local CP Procedures
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Recognising Child Abuse within the context of cultural and
societal diversity – including Children who may also
have a Disability
v Categories of Child Abuse, including child protection procedure
and planning
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What is Risk? (see our User Information
Pages) and working with Section 17 and Section 47 cases.
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Framing Outcomes and Core Group work.
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Analysis and Assessment –
knowing the difference and being able to do both
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Have
knowledge of and be able to demonstrate in practice, adherence to the 15
Principles of Working Together
in Partnership.
This one-day course is
designed to ensure an understanding of the nature of risk and how risk is
assessed. We reference the historical context of the abuse of children and the
role of the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). We explore the use of the
Framework for Assessment, initial and core assessment, timescales of
intervention, legal aspects of intervention and the use of the CP Procedures,
signs and symptoms of abuse and adult risk factor checklists. We examine the
role and function of the Case Conference and how it impacts
on service users. We also look at how to frame outcomes that are testable and
also at resilience and protective factors in children. Included is a research
based Child Protection Quiz Questionnaire.
Course Key Texts:
Local SSD Child
Protection Procedures
Children Act 1989 (HMSO)
DoH (1995) Messages from
Research (HMSO)
DoH (2006) Working
Together to Safeguard Children (HMSO)
Course Handout
Selected Supplementary
Reading:
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