Safeguarding Adolescents
Why is the BHSCP providing this course?
This training focuses on the particular issues around working with vulnerable adolescents and their families and what support and intervention can be offered. It will consider local service provision, including the Adolescent Service and how agencies can work together to safeguard young people in Brighton & Hove. The course will cover aspects of adolescent brain development and specific vulnerabilities in children that may make them particularly vulnerable to exploitation, for example, the impact of childhood trauma and neurodiversity. The course provides information on exploitation, including CSE, criminal exploitation, County Lines and other forms of contextual harm. Examples of practice are included with the young person’s voice and experience and multi-agency roles in safeguarding.
Target Audience:
People who work predominantly with children, young people and their families, parents or carers, and who could potentially contribute to assessment, interventions and/ or reviewing safeguarding needs for adolescents where there are contextual safeguarding concerns.
Learning outcomes:
During this session you will:
- Consider local issues relating to adolescent safety and contextual harm;
- Understand adolescent brain development, childhood trauma and the impact on behaviour;
- Think about how to engage/interact with adolescents who may be resistant to intervention;
- Understand how best to safeguard children/ adolescents who are being exploited or at risk of exploitation, potentially via county lines or local gangs.
- Learn how to make an NRM referral under the modern Slavery Act
Booking
BHSCP courses can be booked via the Learning Zone platform. Agency Leads have been contacted requesting account information requirements for professionals who will require a Learning Zone account to view and book training from April. Once an account has been created for individuals they will receive an activation email from the Learning Zone. If you need a Learning Zone account and haven’t yet requested one please email BHSCP@brighton-hove.gov.uk .
Training is free for Children’s Services staff, school staff, foster carers, community/voluntary sector groups, BHCC contracted organisations in Children’s Services, statutory health organisations, police and probation and all early years (including private early years) who are working in Brighton & Hove. For private organisations and those working outside the city the cost is £120.
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