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Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership (SoTSCP) offers a comprehensive multi-agency training programme for professionals and volunteers who work with children, young people, and their parents/carers across Stoke-on-Trent.

To explore the training opportunities available, please view the SoTSCP Training Brochure to see what courses are available.

To book a place on a training course, to login or register for a new account, please visit Event List : All Stoke-on-Trent SCP

Level 1 Safeguarding Children Training

Level 1 mandatory training needs to be undertaken within three months of starting your employment and refreshed every three years if your job role includes contact with children, young people and/or their parents or carers. Please note Early Years must complete every 2 years due to the EYFS requirements.

Level 1 Safeguarding Children training is available from Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership (SoTSCP). You can take the training in the following ways:

Online via Microsoft Teams – sessions run once a month (except for August)
eLearning – you can complete the training at your own pace

Alternatively, Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership offer Level 1 Safeguarding Children Level 1 Core Slides to enable organisations to deliver this essential training to all staff internally for £100. During the period of the licence SoTSCP will ensure the slides are updated with any changes to statutory regulations and legislative guidance and will automatically allocate you with the most up to date version, which should be accessed from your booking on the Learner Management System. The Core Slides are licensed to you between 1 September, of the current year to 31 August, of the following year and must be renewed every September to ensure you have access to these updates.

Requirements – The Level 1 Core Slides must be delivered by a Designated Safeguarding Lead or professional who has received Level 2 Working Together to Safeguard Children training through SoTSCP.

Level 2 Working Together to Safeguard Children Training

Level 2 multi-agency training is mandatory for those with particular responsibility for safeguarding children, such as designated lead or named professionals who may be responsible for safeguarding in their teams or organisations. This may include undertaking s47 (child abuse) enquiries, working with complex cases, or those who would regularly attend Child Protection Conferences. This training needs to be undertaken within 12 months of starting your employment and updated every two years with a Level 3 role specific training course. Pre-requisite SoTSCP Level 1 Safeguarding Children training.

Please check your agency’s safeguarding training requirements, as sector-specific guidance (e.g., Keeping Children Safe in Education, Early Years Statutory Framework, Intercollegiate Document) may apply.

Level 3 Multi-agency Training

These courses offer greater insight on specific topics and can provide the refresher or update required every two years*. These sessions are suitable for members of the workforce who work predominantly with children, young people and/or parents or carers.

*To update your Level 2 Working Together to Safeguard Children certificate every two years with multi-agency Level 3 training as related to your specific job role.

Level 4 Multi-agency Training

Level 4 training is aimed at staff with a lead responsibility for safeguarding, including Designated/Lead Officers, e.g. designated teachers, managers responsible for child protection in early years settings and council child protection officers. Also, for those with operational responsibility for receiving concerns about the safety and welfare of children and young people, who make decisions about what action needs to be taken and those with strategic responsibility in addition to the operational role. Pre-requisite SoTSCP Level 1 Safeguarding Children and SoTSCP Level 2 Working Together to Safeguard Children training.

Level 4 courses offered through the Partnership are:

Level 4 Designated Safeguarding Lead Officer
Level 4 Managing Allegations against Staff and Volunteers

Level 1 Safeguarding Children (eLearning/MS Teams) - £30 per person
Level 1 Core Slides - £100 per school
Level 2 Working Together to Safeguard Children - £100 per person
Level 3 Multi-agency Training - £30/£50 per person, depending upon course
Level 4 Multi-agency Training - £50 per person

Course charges

Everyone will be charged the above to attend a course except for the three statutory safeguarding partners (Staffordshire Police, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Stoke-on-Trent City Council), voluntary, faith, charitable and community interest companies.

Please note – If the course states FREE in the title, then this course is free to everyone. However, the cancellation policy still applies to free courses

Conditions of booking

Managers’ permission must be obtained to attend a Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership course.
Delegates must book and manage their own account.
Delegates are required to complete the whole course to receive a certificate.
Invoices for non-attendance/re-charge will be automatically applied.

eLearning

It is expected that the course is completed within three months of enrolling on the eLearning module and learners must take responsibility for their own learning.

Webinar

You will need a strong internet connection.
Training is delivered by MS Teams or Zoom; therefore, you must have suitable IT equipment to accommodate these platforms. Your equipment must also be running on the most up-to-date software. If you are unsure, please speak to your organisations IT department.
Headsets are recommended but if you do not have a headset, please make sure that you are in a quiet room.
The link for the course is available directly from your account.
Please join the training at least 5 minutes before the start time just in case you have any technical issues.
Delegates must not attend any later than 15 minutes and must take responsibility for their own learning.
Please treat this as if you are out of the office/workplace by avoiding email or other work-related distractions. We will expect full participation. We would always prefer you to have your cameras on to ensure full engagement in the course.
Delegates must participate in the course for the trainer to be able to complete a register of attendance. Failure to do so may result in a non-attendance charge being made.

Face to face

Please attend the course at least 10 minutes before the start time.
Delegates must not arrive any later than 15 minutes after the start time of the training.
Participate fully in the course.
The trainer will circulate a register on the day please make sure that you mark yourself as attended on the register.

Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership retains the right to operate cancellation fees due to non-attendance and late cancellations. Charges are made to everyone for late cancellations and non-attendance, as outlined in this policy.

Please note that the cancellation policy still applies for free courses and everyone who receives free training.

eLearning: Once you have enrolled on an eLearning course, there will be no refunds.

Level 1 Safeguarding Children Core Slides: Once you have enrolled for the Core Slides, there will be no refunds.

Webinar/Face to Face: Demand for Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership training is high and some applications may be unsuccessful, early cancellation is important to ensure places can be offered to other participants.

No charge will be applied if:

The delegate or their line manager arranges for someone for whom the training is appropriate to attend in their place, please inform safeguarding.training.administrator@stoke.gov.uk of this change.

A cancellation charge will be applied to everyone if:

Notification of non-attendance is not received within two weeks of the date of the course. The charge will apply even if the delegate re-books onto a later date. This also applies to the three statutory partners (Staffordshire Police, Stoke-on-Trent City Council & Clinical Commissioning Groups), voluntary, faith, charitable and community interest companies.

No representative attends in the place of the delegate.

If you are more than 15 minutes late a cancellation charge will apply, and you will not be permitted to stay for the duration of the course.

Delegates who leave early, with more than 15minutes of the course remaining, will be deemed to have not completed the training and therefore, will not receive a certificate of attendance and will be charged.

Cancellation costs

Level 1 Safeguarding Children (MS Teams) - £30 per person
Level 1 Safeguarding Children (eLearning) – no refund available (see cancellation charges)
Level 1 Safeguarding Children Core Slides - no refund available (see cancellation charges)
Level 2 Working Together to Safeguard Children - £100 per person
Level 3 Multi-agency Training - £30/£50 per person, depending upon course
Level 4 Multi-agency Training - £50 per person
Free lunchtime learning/briefings - £20 per person
Free half day training - £30 per person
Free full day training - £50 per person unless otherwise stated in course details

Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership Training Cancellation

Due to unforeseen circumstances such as trainer illness or adverse technical issues, the Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership may be required to cancel training with limited notice. If this occurs, we will arrange another date for you to attend. Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership do not reimburse other costs incurred by delegates, such as those incurred in releasing staff to attend courses.

Appeals Process

Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Partnership are committed to reducing the level of non-attendance and late cancellations. It is accepted there will be exceptional circumstances when delegates are justifiably unable to attend at short notice. The delegate’s line manager is expected to appeal in writing to the safeguarding.training.administrator@stoke.gov.uk within five days of receipt of notification of non-attendance. Appeals will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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