“This course has made me more aware of the signs of distress in children”.
Social Worker, Wales

“Another great training event - thank you. It was really good to see some lights come on for some of my team”.
Project Manager

“I have more confidence in my knowledge and practice and a highlighted awareness of professional dengerousness”.
Project Worker, Action for Children

“This course will help me to challenge clients and other professionals when I have any concerns regarding a child or family”.
Play Leader, South Wales

“Excellent 2 days very thought provoking. It made me reflect on personal and professional experiences I will aim to improve my practice on all levels”.
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Hampshire

“Excellent trainer, use of scenarios and personal experience very helpful to me”.
Consultant - Accident and Emergency, Portsmouth

“This course has opened my eyes to the reasons why professionals fail to report cases of child abuse. It will certainly change my practice”.
Play & Learn Practitioner, Stoke on Trent

“Two fantastic days of training, really made me think about signs of distress in children and the way families behave, but more than that, the ways professionals can leave a child at risk unwittingly”.
Social Work Manager, Scotland

“This has been the most interesting and informative training that I have been on in 17 years of employment with the Social Work department. I now intend to revisit certain cases and review my practice. I will also share my new found knowledge with my team in order to effect change in their practice. It is a pity that Social Work Assistants in our Reception Services Team do not access this training as they deal on a daily basis with incoming childcare concerns/child protection referals”.
Social Worker, Motherwell

“I found the course to be really interesting.  Joy was a really good trainer who made the course enjoyable. After attending the course I am now considering my employment and may change to train to do social work”.
Nursery Manager, Motherwell

“Fantastic course, great information. Will be advising my colleagues to attend course when possible”.
Senior Early Years Worker, Montessori Nursery in Bellshill

“Training should be made available to all staff including unqualified staff and admin”.
Support Worker, North Lanarkshire Council

“Future Childcare Training is always an excellent training course and this one hasn’t failed”.
Project Worker, Barnardos

“It will make me more aware of the different aspects involved in child protection, different issues to look for.  Make me feel more confident in dealing with child protection and other agencies”.
Senior Childcare Worker, Lanarkshire Childcare Services

“I am aware of areas of practice where previously I may have been in danger of acting inappropriately and now will be more vigilant when responding to situations”.
Support Worker, North Lanarkshire Council

“This course has helped me to be aware of the areas of practice where children and young people have been left at risk by myself and other agencies. It will also consolidate good practice. All staff should undergo this training, including admin staff and unqualified staff as often these are the first contacts people have with social workers or other agencies”.
Social Worker

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.

Working in groups can be an effective way of confronting difficulties by using the creativity, energy and support that group work provides.  It can assist in the process of learning and structured problem solving.

This A4 book contains suggested games which will create fun and laughter within the group framework and can be used within most structured group programmes.  This book is ideal for workers running groups for parents or young people.  Order your copy now!

£4.99 (plus postage & packaging)

When parenting it is vital to build children’s self-esteem. This A5 booklet helps parents to identify a loss in their child’s self-esteem and gives them a structured approach to understand children and the impact the world around them has on their self-esteem.

If you are a parent and you want to recognise behaviour that is linked to your child’s self-esteem order your copy now! Alternatively if you are a worker running parent groups in your area please refer to our pricing guide for postage and packaging costs as well as our offers on large orders.

£2.99 (plus postage & packaging)

Being a parent is one of the most difficult jobs in the world that nobody teaches us how to do.  This A5 parent guide has been created to help parents become aware of their parenting skills and provide techniques to help them manage their teenager’s behaviour effectively.  It will empower parents, allowing them to enjoy their parenting and help them to maintain happy and healthy relationships with their teenager.

If you are a parent and you want to learn how to manage your teenager’s behaviour effectively order your copy now!  Alternatively if you are a worker running parent groups please refer to our pricing guide for postage and packaging costs as well as our offers on large orders.

£2.99 (plus postage & packaging)

about the course

Most people who trained to work in the childcare settings concentrated their learning on their vocational choices, e.g. teaching, medicine, play and development, speech therapy, residential work, fostering, legislation etc.  It is often not until we work within the real day-to-day setting that we realise that working with adults is often the most important and difficult part of the job. Parents are our most important service user alongside the child in any setting; in fact the parent provides our route to working with the child in most situations. It is therefore crucial that we learn how to engage positively with parents even when there is resistance or there are difficult issues to discuss.

course aims and objectives

This course aims to:

• Enable participants to understand the legislation that guides our practices in relation to the rights of children and their parents.
• Provide practical and theoretical approaches that will help participant to take their practices to the next level of understanding of how to work positively with parents.
• Help delegates to understand the importance of developing a team ethos that puts parents at the centre of the child’s world.
• Explore the barriers that can get in the way and make it difficult to work positively and confidently in this area.
• Understand relationships between the parent and the child as well as how the child’s developmental stage can impact on the family.
• Enable participants to gain a sense of how self-esteem impacts on the human being interact and use that learning positively and skilfully as a professional worker.
• Address the most difficult and most positive aspects about working with parents and create some strategies for practices.
• Take a look at strategies to enable professionals to work with some of the difficulties that working with parents can raise, more effectively.

how to book this course

This one-day course is charged at £1000 per course + 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 one evenings accommodation for our course trainer the night prior to the course date.  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.

Offering appropriate care in a Residential Unit is especially difficult due to many factors, some of which may include, numbers of carers involved, circumstances leading residential care as an option, different management styles, government and departmental policies and procedures and often the morale and ethos within the unit itself. These things and others can greatly impact on the service given to the child or young person.

about the course

Following requests from workers in this field we have devised this two-day course which enables workers and managers to raise their awareness of the issues involved and how they impact on the child or young person and to explore practical ways which will enhance the development of the child alongside building the competence and expertise of the staff team.

This course is based on the research and recommendations from work completed by the Government Support Force for Children in Residential Care. It is guaranteed to give best value and has been piloted within a residential unit. This course can stand alone, but is maximised when delivered as part of a whole package of training around skills required in this setting.

course aims and objectives

This course aims to:

• Provide practical and effective advice to workers on how they can meet the needs of children and young people in a Residential Unit.
• Raise the awareness of RSWs and SWs at all levels about the real issues involved and heighten their understanding so that they can feel more confident and deal more effectively with this difficult task.
• Enable workers to create an appropriate ethos in their unit that will not only enhance the life and needs of the child but also the worker.
• Explore how best to work with other professionals and agencies involved
• Explore appropriate routines and how best to use team members skills and experiences in a group setting
• Create a safe learning environment through humour, humanity and warmth which will enable change.

how to book this course

This course is charged at £1000 per day + VAT and teams can book between one and four days training.  We reccommend that whole teams of staff attend the training in order to gain a common approach to plans and decisions agreed for the future.

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 accommodation for our course trainer (the evening prior to the course and any further evenings depending on the length of the course).  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.

about the course

Our team building training will be individually tailored to meet the needs of the specific team requiring team building training.  We can offer between one and five days team building training; the length of time will depend on the team and their specific requirements.

It is crucial for whole teams to attend in order for plans and decisions to be taken forward with a common understanding and with equal input.  We will discuss your individual team training needs when we finalise the dates of the training and present a basic plan to you prior to the event allowing time for additions and changes that may have occurred in your team.

The training will provide time for thinking, planning, understanding, focusing, and preparing for the future.  Most importantly it will be interesting and fun with a range of different types of activities to suit everyone.

course aims and objectives

• To prioritise the team’s aims and objectives and share a common vision.
• To link values, policies and strategies to daily practice.
• To understand the factors which contribute towards quality teamwork.
• To gain an awareness of the ways that teams can behave dangerously.
• To understand ways to communicate effectively within a team.
• To discover the skills and abilities which exist within the team and clarify roles and responsibilities.
• To create an atmosphere for learning together bringing into the course fun and learning.
• To enable team members to become more aware of each other, to understand ways in which the team can maximize the resources it has and develop a creative and productive way of working together.

how to book this course

This course is charged at £1000 per day + VAT and teams can book between one and five days training.  We reccommend that whole teams of staff attend the training in order to gain a common approach to plans and decisions agreed for the future.

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 accommodation for our course trainer (the evening prior to the course and any further evenings depending on the length of the course).  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.