Future Childcare Training

professional dangerousness “please keep me safe!”

about the course

Due to the significant number of child deaths in the U.K. today, this course addresses the critical practice issues and the knowledge and skills necessary to safeguard children.  In all child death enquiries there are common themes that with hindsight are obvious mistakes or oversights that affected the decisions professionals made.  No childcare professional would consciously leave a child at risk of harm, but yet statistics tell us that between 1 and 2 children are dying every two weeks at the hands of a parent or carer in the UK.

Following the recent serious case review into the death of Baby Peter, Lord Laming has published “The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report”.  Within the report he emphasised the need for all practitioners to be able to recognise the signs of distress in children of all ages but particularly the very young. Lord Laming has clearly stated that it is not so much the structures or systems that have failed, more the individual practice.

Lord Laming in March 2009 said,
“”Please keep me safe!”  This simple but profoundly important hope is the very minimum upon which every child and young person should be able to depend”.

In light of Lord Laming’s recommendations, we are offering our Professional Dangerousness “Please Keep Me Safe!” course which addresses the standard of practice when working with children and families. This course programme focuses on providing participants with some time for reflection and learning from the mistake that have been made in the past. Professional dangerousness can occur within the practices of individual workers, within teams of professionals, within entire departments or between agencies.  Often professional dangerousness occurs as a direct response to the actions of families where there are childcare concerns, as a result of our own discomfort within our role, or when workers who are responsible for child protection leave the child at risk of significant harm as a result of their assumptions, attitudes or behaviours.

This course is suitable for all childcare professionals at every professional level within social services, health, early years, drugs teams, youth offending teams, education, police, private and voluntary sectors who work with children and families.  It addresses the key issues that have emerged from Serious Case Reviews.  It aims to develop more confidence in professional assessments and observations, with a view to taking practices to a higher level.  Many professionals fail to act on their observations due to a fear that they may be wrong.  In all fatal case enquiries all childcare professionals involved are vulnerable, unless their practices are of a high standard and they have taken the necessary steps within their role to safeguard the child.  Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

aims and objectives

This course aims to:

• Raise awareness of the outcomes and lessons learnt from major serious case reviews and enquiries.
• Provide structured time for reflection, exploration and planning around safeguarding practices and acknowledge the need for workers to share their feelings, anxieties and experiences.
• Recognise the impact stress, anxiety and abuse has on the child’s development, self esteem and behaviour, highlighting the importance of the first years of a child’s life, which form the foundation for all aspects of human growth, relationships and development.
• Develop skills in child focused observation and analysis, understanding behaviour, and forming evidence based judgements about the actions we take and the decisions we make.
• Recognise professional dangerousness when it occurs in a range of settings and develop strategies to challenge dangerous practices.
• Remind childcare professionals about the need for a ‘hands-on’ approach to child focused assessments and be able to communicate with the child on the child’s level. Remembering it is always the child who holds the key.
• Address the way families react when child abuse is on our agenda and how their behaviour affects the responses and decisions of professional workers. Professionals need to develop the confidence to investigate, question and challenge.
• Acknowledge the significant problems in the day-to-day reality of working across organisational boundaries and cultures with view to developing strong and mature partnerships.
• Enable delegates to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to feel more comfortable and confident when challenging the professionalism of ourselves and others, which can include other professionals within the same agency and team, as well professionals involved in the case.

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how to book this course
This two-day course is charged at £150 per person + VAT.  To book this course you will need between 12 and 25 people that need training.  This could be your own team of staff or you could contact other childcare professionals, local authorities or agencies in your local area who may also require the training.    When you have between 12 and 25 delegates that need training you can contact our administration team to discuss available training dates.

Please email info@futurechildcaretraining.com and let us know which month(s) you would like the training to take place, how many delegates you have, and also which town/city you would like to training to be held - for all of our group courses one of our trainers will travel to your local area to deliver the course at a venue you have organised.  Once we have checked our training diary we will get back in touch with a list of available training dates and an estimated quote for the training.  If you would prefer to speak directly to a member of our team please call 024 7654 5500 and we will be happy to discuss your requirements with you.

You will be responsible for organising a suitable venue and any catering you wish to provide for the delegates.  Also, where necessary you will need to organise and pay for two evenings accommodation for our course trainer (the evening prior to the course and the middle evening).  We will be responsible for making the necessary travel arrangements for our course trainer and the travel costs will be added to your invoice.  For further details about the course please do not hesitate to contact us.

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