Child Protection Skills Training Programme
Aimed at front line social workers (including NQSWs, those in year 2 and 3 post qualifying), as well as team managers.
The Child Protection Skills Training Programme is a series of training sessions incorporating child protection processes and statutory guidance.
When applying for the first training session you will be enrolled for all the remaining sessions. We will send you calendar invites. Please accept them and block your diary for the training.
The dates and themes of the sessions are as follows:
- CP skills workshop 1 (29th April 10-12:30)
- Managing conflict in child protection - how to feel confident balancing authority with compassion in forming collaborative relationships with parents (6th May 9:30-12:30)
- Top tips on how to use attachment theory and trauma to improve your observation skills, direct work and intervention with children and families in child protection (12th June 9:30-12:30)
- CP skills workshop 2 (17th June 10-12:30)
- Effective assessment in child protection (two full-day in-person training sessions - dates TBC)
- Day 1: Avoiding common pitfalls and minimising errors in judgement, and how to use the chronology as the most powerful tool to assess risk and the impact of harm on children.
Day 2: Practical ideas and tools to write evidentially robust, analytical, and child-centred assessments of children and families that make a difference
- CP skills Workshop 3 (23rd September 10-12:30)
- CP skills Workshop 4 (14th October 10-12:30)
The CP skills workshops, led by Abdul Munim, will be experiential, and will include applying the learning on to case scenario to help enhance your working knowledge and confidence in this area.
Please note that some sessions will be online, while others will be in person.
Dates
April 2025
Date |
Time |
Duration |
Location |
Places Available |
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29/04/2025 |
10:00-12:30 |
1 Day |
Online |
19 |
Book |
May 2025
Date |
Time |
Duration |
Location |
Places Available |
|
06/05/2025 |
09:30-12:30 |
1 Day |
Online |
24 |
Book |
June 2025
Date |
Time |
Duration |
Location |
Places Available |
|
12/06/2025 |
09:30-12:30 |
1 Day |
Online |
25 |
Book |
17/06/2025 |
10:00-12:30 |
1 Day |
Online |
24 |
Book |
September 2025
Date |
Time |
Duration |
Location |
Places Available |
|
23/09/2025 |
10:00-12:30 |
1 Day |
Online |
25 |
Book |
October 2025
Date |
Time |
Duration |
Location |
Places Available |
|
14/10/2025 |
10:00-12:30 |
1 Day |
Online |
25 |
Book |