Professionals

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.

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, if your organisation wants to deliver this training to all staff internally, you can purchase the Level 1 Core Slides for £100. During the period of the licence, the slides will be updated with any changes to statutory regulations and legislative guidance and you will automatically be able to download the most up to date version from your booking on the Learner Management System. The Core Slides are licensed to you between 1 September, of the that 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 SoTSCP training.

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.

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 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 b 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 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 (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
• Free lunchtime learning - £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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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - £5 training
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Child Protection and Safeguarding Podcasts from the NSPCC – Free resources

The podcasts feature experts from the NSPCC and external organisations discussing a range of child protection issues. They look at what is being done to actively keep children safe the wider community and how to continue to improve practices and prevent abuse from occurring. NSPCC Podcasts

Child Safety Campaigns – Free Resources
Please click on the link to take you to the Child Accident Prevention page on the SoTSCP website

Child Sexual Exploitation – Free Resources and Training

• How do I know if I’m being groomed? Voice Box, Childline’s weekly video chat features Lucy Fallon, who plays Bethany Platt in Coronation Street and Helen, a Childline Counsellor, talking about grooming. They give advice on how to spot the signs of grooming and how young people can get support if they are worried that they or a friend are being groomed.

Source: YouTube Date: 07 June 2017

Further information: Childline

• Keeping them Safe: Protecting Children from Child Sexual Exploitation
• Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines

E-Safety – Free Resources

https://ineqe.com/

Female Genital Mutilation – Free Resources and Training

Please see below three YouTube clips of different perspectives:

• Video 1: #EndFGM | The Words Don't Come
• Video 2: #EndFGM | Our Daughters
• Video 3: #EndFGM | It's Our Time Now

Free External eLearning Training – An Awareness of Forced Marriage

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – Free Training 

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

Prevent – Free Training

Prevent

Safer Sleep Awareness Workshop – Free Virtual Training and Resources

To increase awareness and knowledge of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and your role in the prevention and reduction.

To find out more information and to book your place visit here

Small YouTube clips from the lullaby trust that are FREE please click here

Trauma Informed – Supporting Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire to be Trauma Informed

Trauma Informed Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire (TrISS) has developed a suite of resources to assist professionals and organisations to realise, recognise, respond and resist re-traumatisation.

For more information and resources, please click here