• **NEW** PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES AND STAFF CONDUCT

Many staff in the Supported Accommodation sector are either unaware of their professional responsibilities or choose to ignore them, putting the children, themselves and you as the Provider at risk. Are they aware of professional boundaries? Have you given them those boundaries at induction? Do they understand them and where the line is between work and personal conduct?

This session uses my experience of investigating dozens of staff who have breached these boundaries, some being dismissed and referred to the Disclosure & Barring Service. 

I also have an excellent Staff Conduct Code policy that you can use within your service to reinforce the messages from this session.

Objectives

• Give staff an understanding of what professional boundaries are.
• Use practical examples of why they are in place and the consequences for breaching them.
• Give staff confidence to support young people professionally but still retaining compassion and warmth.
• Reinforce the importance of good record keeping and recording

The cost is £249 per session for up to 20 staff and the session length around 90 minutes.

• Safeguarding Children

This is a half day course delivered via Microsoft Teams. This has practical real examples of my experience working with children who have been sexually exploited, are Gang members and those who are exploited to sell and package drugs as part of a county line drug chain. It is very operationally based within children's social care settings.

The cost is £299 per session for up to 20 staff or if it is an open session, £35 per person. 

Objectives

• Uses professional knowledge and understanding to identify signs and symptoms of child abuse or neglect.
• Able to identify and refer a child suspected of being a victim of trafficking, county lines or modern slavery or sexual exploitation; at risk of exploitation/grooming by radicalisers, gangs and youth violence and radicalisation.
• Able to identify and refer a child at risk of FGM or having been a victim of FGM.
• Acts as an effective advocate for the child or young person. Shares appropriate and relevant information.
• How to deal with a disclosure from a child..you will only get one chance..make sure you get it right..

• SUPPORTED ACCOMMODATION COMPLIANCE AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

This is a half day course delivered via Microsoft Teams. This gives Providers a real feel for when Ofsted arrive. I read every Ofsted inspection and monitoring visit and have an excellent understanding of what good looks like...I also know what poor looks like...you cannot be that Provider.

The cost is £299 per session for you and your staff team or if it is an open session, £40 per person. 

Objectives

• Detailed information on how to Quality Assure your service by Compliance Audits
• Prepare your service for Local Authority Commissioning Team and Ofsted inspections
• Prepare and gain knowledge on submission of Quarterly assurance submissions for Local Authorities and improve the standards of accommodation, staff competency and the outcomes for your young people.
• Trends and themes from Ofsted inspections 
• Guidance on how to prepare your staff team for Ofsted readiness.

• Designated Safeguarding Lead
   

This is a half day course delivered via Microsoft Teams. I have delivered this around 100 times, training about 1000 staff.

The cost is £50 per person. This is specific to Childrens Social Care and very operationally based. 

Objectives

• An understanding of the origins of the role.
• An understanding of the 4 key responsibilities in line with legislation.
• Separate the issues of complaints v allegations.
• Increase knowledge of managing allegations.
• Increase knowledge of making referrals to Local Authority Designated Officers.
• Increase knowledge of investigations, outcomes, and potential Disclosure & Barring Service

• Missing from Care
   

This is a 90 minute course delivered via Microsoft Teams at a cost of £249 for all of your team.

Objectives

• This will provide clarity between missing and absence and the response and expectations from the Police and Social Care from the Provider.
• The national College of Policing definition for missing.
• Philomena missing protocol and how to impiment it.
• It also explains the Philomena missing protocol and a case study around the tragic death of Caitlyn who was missing 34 times whilst in care before being tragically killed by a man she met online.
• I use my own personal experience as a Senior Police Officer and as a senior leader in Children's Social Care to provide the importance of getting this right.

• Prevent & Radicalisation

This is a 90 minute course delivered via Microsoft Teams at a cost of £249. I use my personal experience of working with Looked After Children who are being radicalised.

Objectives

• This session looks at Provider responsibility to refer any young person into the Government’s Channel programme if radicalisation is suspected. 
• This follows two Looked After Children who begin to display behaviour that if left unchecked could cause extreme harm to our communites. 
• The session involves current trends, referrals and vulnerabilites that can be exploited for the purposes of a radicalised viewpoint.

• Gangs & Youth Violence

This is a 90 minute course delivered via Microsoft Teams, at a cost of £249

Objectives

• Sadly, there are 28,000 young gang members and Looked After Children are being drawn into this awful situation.
• The session looks at Gang and Knife culture and the desire for many of our children to identify as a “Gangster”.
  This follows the journey of Henry, a 17-year-old Looked After Child embroiled in gang membership who commits a drive by murder of an opposing gang member.
• Legislation around knifes and trends regarding use are also highlighted.
• I draw on my experience of supporting gang members who are Looked after Children.

• Substance Misuse & Exploitation

This is a 90 minute corse delivered via Microsoft Teams at a cost of £249

Objectives

• Increase knowledge of drug types and symptoms ranging from cannabis through to nitrous oxide
• Increase knowledge of child criminal exploitation and how “laid on” drugs such as cannabis and vapes are signs and symptoms of the beginnings of exploitation.
• Recording and incident reporting to Police and Children’s Social Care
• Understand the correct referral mechanisms including the National Referral Mechanism for exploitation and trafficking.