Training
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
- Visit: An introduction to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
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.
- Click to watch a 5 minute ACEs YouTube video
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.
- Visit: ACT (Action Counters Terrorism) (protectuk.police.uk)
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.
- Download: Is Someone Close Becoming a Stranger?
- A Useful leaflet can be found here, Download Is someone
close becoming a stranger?_Safeguard v2_A5_Leaflet.pdf (counterterrorism.police.uk)
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).
- Visit: Child trafficking - ECPAT UK
I'm Lucy: Children are not protective factors
In response to practice learning which indicated that potential risks to children maybe obscured by professionals viewing children as protective factors for their parent or carer's mental health, the KSCMP has developed the 'I'm Lucy' resources.
The resources are designed to highlight that children are not responsible for protecting or improving the mental well being of their parent or carer and prompt professionals to consider their own practice, and whether potential risk of harm to children identified, understood and responded to. The resources include a video and reflection tool for use in team meetings, supervision and individual reflection.
Kent Safeguarding Children Multi- Agency Partnership have developed training video resources to raise awareness of safeguarding children
Best practice for protecting LGBTQ+ children and young people
Safeguarding Children from Black, Asian, and minoritised ethnic communities
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.
- Visit: Child domestic abuse
Click to watch the following
- Millie’s story - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j_Nfay2PomY
- Kai’s story - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vKYJdQNw7h0
- Joseph’s story - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ODkEQfhBI2M
- Leah’s story - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jewMc7fYDx4
- Harper’s story - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lVTvt2mv71E
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
- Visit: Child sexual exploitation Free RSE e-learning – Brook
Female genital mutilation (FGM) Barnardo's
We believe all girls deserve to grow up in a world free from harm
Operation Limelight:
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.
- Visit: Female genital mutilation: resource pack - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Visit: Free FGM Training Online | Recognising & Preventing FGM Free Course | Virtual College (virtual-college.co.uk)
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.
Protecting Children from Female Genital Mutilation
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
- View mental health innovations video
- View crossing the rubicon video
- View self-harm prevention for children and young people video
- View Kent and Medway transformation programme video
- View children and young people's mental health service video
- View positive practice audit video
- View children and young person led resilience tools video
- View expanding services for children and young people video
- View ACE and trauma informed working video
Learning from Local Child Safeguarding Practice 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.
Visit: Self harm and risky behaviour
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.
Understanding the impact of parent mental health on children factsheet
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.
- Visit: Disability Matters Hub
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.
- Visit: Safeguarding matters: disabled children Disability Matters Hub
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.
- >Click to Watch Videos on strengths-based approaches | SCIE
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.
- Visit: Understanding animal welfare in violent homes Animal Welfare Course | Virtual College (virtual-college.co.uk)
Teenage pregnancy training programme
Visit Nottinghamshire's teenage pregnancy and sexual health training page for more information.
- Visit: Teenage pregnancy training programme - Sexual Health Nottinghamshire County Council
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
Child neglect: A thematic analysis
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?
#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 tool
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)
SWGfl 360 Degree Safe
360 degree safe is a free tool to help schools review their Online Safety policy and practice. We walk you through each aspect of Online Safety, helping you to collaborate, report, and progress:
Motivational Interviewing and Safer Sleep Practitioner Resource
Annie's Year
Annie's Year is a video which follows the diary entries of Annie over the course of several months in which she is groomed to see sexual abuse as a loving relationship. The video is based on learning, although not the exact circumstances, of a Kent Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR).
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