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Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Partnership is exploring a dynamic training offer that reflects the learning needs to be identified each year. We will post more information about this shortly.

What courses and Information is available?

On this page, you can access a wide range of free or low-cost e-learning and resources designed to support work to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults.

After completing the course.

On completion of a course, practitioners should notify their agency training representative to ensure that e-learning is captured on their training record.

Please note Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Partnership is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences

This 50 minute free course has been funded by the Home Office Early Intervention Fund

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) YouTube Video

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that affect children while growing up, such as suffering child maltreatment or living in a household affected by domestic violence, substance misuse or mental illness.

Introduction to the Prevent duty

This is a free course that offers an introduction to the Prevent duty and explains how it aims to safeguard vulnerable people from being radicalised to supporting terrorism or becoming terrorists themselves.

Prevent referrals

This package builds on the Prevent awareness e-learning training. It is designed to make sure that when we share a concern that a vulnerable individual may be being radicalised, that the referral is robust, informed and with good intention, and that the response to that concern is considered, and proportionate.

Channel awareness

This training package is for anyone who may be asked to contribute to, sit on, or even run a Channel Panel. It is aimed at all levels, from a professional who is asked to input and attend for the first time, to a member of staff new to their role and organising a panel meeting.

  • Visit: Channel awareness Prevent duty training (support-people-vulnerable-to-radicalisation.service.gov.uk)

ACT (Action Counters Terrorism)

ACT eLearning is a counter terrorism awareness product designed for all UK based companies and organisations and available to the public.

Is Someone Close Becoming a Stranger?

It can be hard to know what to do if you’re worried someone close is expressing extreme views or hatred, which could lead to them harming themselves or others. Working with other organisations, the police protect vulnerable people from being exploited by extremists through a Home Office programme called Prevent. 

 

Child Attachment

NICE has developed this e-learning on children’s attachment.  The e-learning aims to support practitioners to better understand attachment, the causes of attachment difficulties, how to recognise the signs of attachment difficulties and how to support children and families affected by attachment difficulties.

Understanding attachment theory

Understanding the basic principles of attachment theory and its importance for practice.

Attachment in children and young people

This resource covers the identification, assessment and treatment of attachment difficulties in children and young people up to age 18 who are adopted from care, in special guardianship, looked after by local authorities in foster homes (including kinship foster care), residential settings and other accommodation, or on the edge of care. It aims to address the many emotional and psychological needs of children and young people in these situations, including those resulting from maltreatment.

Courageous and Challenging Conversations, Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership

Supporting Resources, Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership (KSCMP)

Managing Difficult Conversations: Look Further, Think Wider, See More, Leeds Safeguarding Adults Partnership

Courageous & Challenging Conversations resources, Kent Child Safeguarding Partnership

Challenging Conversations: A Guide for Professionals, Sandwell Children’s Safeguarding Partnership

Having Difficult Conversation Guidance, Dudley Safeguarding People Partnership

Trafficking and exploitation for individuals and organisations provided by Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT).

 

Best practice for protecting LGBTQ+ children and young people

Safeguarding Children from Black, Asian, and minoritised ethnic communities 

Protecting Children from Female Genital Mutilation

Domestic Violence

Equation offers expert training for anyone who wants to develop skills in responding to domestic abuse in their working life, including frontline professionals, community workers and volunteers. Whatever your role, Equation can develop your skills in spotting the signs of abuse, assessing and supporting survivors, and responding to perpetrators.

Child Domestic Abuse

A selection of e-learning courses is available on this website.

Click to watch the following  

CSE training resource, ‘Keep them Safe' 

PACE (Parents against Child Sexual Exploitation) is providing a free CSE training resource for parents and professionals called 'Keep them Safe'. It is an introductory online course designed to help teach the signs and impacts of CSE and what to do if you think a child is being exploited. The resource provides a good overall understanding of CSE with links to films and resources as well as e-safety advice.

  • Visit: Keep them safe - Parents Against Child Exploitation (Pace) UK (paceuk.info)

Protecting children from CSE

Suitable for parents and professionals. This short (20 to 30 minutes) online course will be of interest to all those working with children.

Child sexual exploitation

Protecting Children from Child Sexual Exploitation: a free course

 

Female genital mutilation (FGM) Barnardo's

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): we believe all girls deserve to grow up in a world free from harm

Operation Limelight: Instructions to police and Border Force staff - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Protecting Children from Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation: resource pack

The following is a free online course provided by The Home Office with the objective of training professionals to recognise FGM.

The course explores the key issues related to FGM and how these affect the life of the individual. Additionally, there is also an FGM resource pack available from The Home Office.

This course is useful for anyone who is interested in gaining an overview of FGM, particularly frontline staff in healthcare, police, border force and children’s social care.

Awareness of Forced Marriage

This course is aimed at all professionals who have a responsibility to safeguard vulnerable children, young people and adults at risk and is aimed specifically at child protection services, health professionals, education professionals, police officers, children’s social care, adult social care and housing authorities.

HSB Framework and Audit: an evidence-informed framework for children and young people displaying harmful sexual behaviours

Change for Good, Harmful Sexual Behaviour intervention

Learning from a programme working with parents and carers of children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour

Learning from Serious Case Reviews Levels 1 to 4 Free Course

Introducing child development

This free session by MindEd is aimed at a universal audience and describes the organisation and development of the young brain. It covers cognitive development, emotional development and moral development before finally describing the issues particular to adolescence.

Children and young people's mental health

MindEd is a free educational resource on children and young people's mental health for all adults

Talking to your children about emotional resilience and self-harm’

Suitable for parents and professionals. This online course, ‘Talking to your children about emotional resilience and self-harm’, has been designed to provide you with a basic awareness of the subject to help you approach children with confidence about the issue.

Self harm and risky behaviour

This free session by MindEd is aimed at a universal audience and provides the background to self harm in children and teenagers, common associated conditions and the optimal approach to managing it in the community.

Bullying and the impact on the child

This free session by MindEd Ed is aimed at more experienced/specialist users and provides some basic information about childhood bullying, victimisation and its consequences on victims’ mental health and well-being. It also covers what bullying is and how it may affect children’s lives, in order to provide adequate and appropriate support to the victims.

Contextual safeguarding network

This network brings together practitioners, researchers and policymakers who are committed to protecting young people from harm outside the home. Join the network for free to access resources, tutorials, videos and briefings.

Disability basics

A free e-learning resource for the UK workforce: together we can challenge and positively change our own and others fears, ideas and attitudes towards disability and disabled children and young people.

Foster caring handbooks

These training guides (handbooks)are to equip care professionals and family based carers with the necessary knowledge and tools and enable them to provide better support and meet the needs of unaccompanied and separated children across UK. The training guides (handbooks) are structured to offer information, training modules, current -specific processes, challenges and guidelines for those who work with these children.

Safeguarding matters: disabled children

This training describes why disabled children and young people are vulnerable to abuse, explore how to respond where abuse is suspected and offer guidance on how to build the resilience of disabled children and young people and their families.

Strengths based approaches videos

A strengths-based approach to social care focuses on identifying the strengths, or assets, as well as the needs and difficulties of adults, children, young people and families. Watch some videos that look at the issues.

Understanding animal welfare in violent homes

When animals are abused, children are at risk! This course will be of interest to professionals working with families with pets and will help them to recognise those at risk of physical and mental abuse.

Teenage pregnancy training programme

Visit Nottinghamshire's teenage pregnancy and sexual health training page for more information.

Information sharing

This presentation/ training course is based on HM Government Information Sharing Guidance for Practitioners and Managers and has been developed in partnership with Barnardo’s. This course will help you to understand when and how information can be shared legally and professionally, in order to achieve improved outcomes.

Prepare to save a life

This course takes less than an hour, just five short 10 minute sections and you might be able to save someone's life! A friend, work colleague, mother, father, brother, sister, child…might thank you one day.

Modern Slavery Awareness

This Home Office programme provides guidance on how to spot the signs of modern slavery, and what to do when you come across a potential victim of modern slavery. This programme aims to give you confidence to follow procedures swiftly and with compassion.

General guidance and information

Two podcasts on recognising and responding to neglect

Learning from serious case reviews

Statistics on child neglect

Research and policy recommendations in multi-agency responses to neglect ‘too little too late’

NSPCC: We're calling for a national strategy for England on child neglect

Useful Neglect resources from Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership

NSPCC Safeguarding Resources

The NSPCC have some excellent and easy to access resources we would encourage you to look at and share with your networks.

NSPCC Podcast – 62 and counting episodes on various safeguarding topics featuring lots of different experts from different sectors

Home or out alone – a guide to support parents making decisions, particularly relevant over the summer holidays

NSPCC Parenting pages – huge numbers of support resources for parents and carers across all ages and stages of childhood from babies right through to young adults leaving home

Listen Up, Speak Up – 10-minute safeguarding training for all adults, anywhere. All about building confidence and skills in safeguarding.

Introduction to cybersecurity: stay safe online

This free online course, Introduction to cybersecurity: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you.

Online Safety

CEOP training. Are you worried about online sexual abuse or the way someone has been communicating with you online?

NSPCC E-safety training

NSPCC E-safety training to help you keep children and young people safe online (£35 registration cost)

#LiveSkills

.#LiveSkills is a package of resources for 8-18 year olds focusing on live streaming, one of the most popular online activities for children and young people. It explores the features of live streaming and the specific risks children and young people can face.

Report Remove is here to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet)

Report Remove | Childline

Risk Assessment Tool

Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Partnership and Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Partnership have developed the Safer Sleeping Risk Assessment Tool to support practitioners to identify if parents or carers are putting a baby to sleep in an unsafe way.

Self-directed learning session

A self-directed learning session has also been developed to help practitioners learn about what guidance to give carers to ensure they are putting babies to sleep safely (PowerPoint).

Infographic (learning from reviews)

A handy infographic detailing the safer sleeping risks identified from local and national reviews

Contact us

Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG 

ncscbtraining@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

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