Training Topics: Extra-Familial Harms
Safety Planning: Extra Familial Harm
Perfect for any practitioner supporting vulnerable populations, this face to face workshop format enables an in-depth look at the concept of safety planning and applicable tools to use for engagement in the conversations and assessments of places of safety and places of harm.
Develop an understanding of what defines ‘safety’ in this context, its categorisation and how it can be assessed, applying a realism lens.
Develop an understanding of applying both a relationship-based and a trauma-informed lens to supporting victims of extra-familial harm in the context of safety planning.
Develop different tools and methodologies that can be applied to create a quality safety plan, including body mapping, place and space mapping, active and passive plans, case studies and activities.
Full Day Workshop (OCN L3 accreditation optional)
Contextual Safeguarding: In Practice
Utilising the model of Contextual Safeguarding, designed by Dr Firmin and the University of Bedfordshire. Using the tools and methods of contextual safeguarding assessments will support your ability to safeguard young people. This session explores the concept and how this can be applied.
Understand the concept and framework of contextual safeguarding
Understand why you should be at the forefront of contextual safeguarding
Understanding the basics of supporting young people facing extra-familial harm using this approach
How to ensure your concerns are raised appropriately within child protection settings
This training comes in various formats, from a three-hour webinar, to a full day’s OCN Level 3 accredited face to face workshop.
Disrupting Exploitation: A Multi-Agency Effort
This innovative part training, part workshopping session considers how everyone within the safeguarding arena plays a part in the outcomes of a child being harmed through exploitation. This session explores the tools, roles and responsibilities across multi-agency settings and what can be utilised to disrupt harm, as well as sharing innovative practices that have worked.
A greater understanding of tools, roles, responsibilities, and key legislation that various partners can utilise to better disrupt harms.
How to effectively work together as a multi-agency setting within complex safeguarding, effectively creative problem solving.
Understanding how to appropriately professionally challenge if responsiveness and proportionality are not adhered to.
Full Day Workshop and Two Day Versions Available
Extra-Familial Harm Safeguarding Best Practice
This training provides information on the concepts, theory and risks associated with extra-familial harms - including various forms of exploitation, trafficking and online harms. The purpose of this training is to expand the professional understanding of the many guises in which extra-familial harms present, so that we may better understanding and assess needs. From peer on peer violence, to harmful sexual behaviour, CSA/CSE, organised crime and trafficking, CSAM online, pro-ana and pro-mia sites.
Understand the various typologies of extra-familial harms in the community and online.
Understand how to support young people experiencing extra-familial harms
A basic understanding of legislation regarding safeguarding those at risk of or experiencing these harms
Full Day Workshop
Neurodiversity and Exploitation
Much of what is “known” about neurodivergence is generally incorrect and often harmful. This training is designed to develop a greater understanding of neurodivergence, the myths surrounding it and the appropriate language to use within practice. We then will delve into its complex and multi-faceted interconnection with exploitation, the impacts it can have on young people and explore the reasoning behind how and why neurodiverse young people are disproportionately victims of exploitation. Drawing upon these insights, we integrate best practices to formulate principles for effectively supporting and safeguarding neurodiverse young people who are at risk of exploitation or have experienced harm.
Have a better understanding of neurodiversity and its implications within the context of exploitation.
Be able to understand and identify key factors contributing to vulnerability and complexity of the safeguarding process.
Be able to apply an asset-based approach to address neurodiversity and exploitation, utilising prevention and disruption techniques, and integrating practical tools and organisational frameworks.
Full Day Workshop
Young People, Violence and Trauma
Develop a greater understanding of not simply what trauma is and how that trauma can impact someone, but how those impacts can play out in real-time and how to support a young person exposed. Expanding on our knowledge of the bio-psycho-social impacts to learn how we can apply what is often called trauma-informed practice into our daily work within complex and unsafe contexts young people experience.
Have an understanding of various typologies of trauma, from developmental to intergenerational, systemic and incident-based trauma
Have an understanding of how that trauma can impact as children and present in adolescence, both biological and behavioural.
Have an understanding of how such trauma can play out in communities, including in relation to serious youth violence
Have an understanding of how to practice trauma-informed and trauma-responsively
Full Day Workshop
Safety First, Desistance Later: Working with Young People Who Harm Others
All too often, practitioners find themselves balancing their work on both ensuring safety for a young person, and the risk that young person may pose to others. This webinar draws on Sean’s experiences working with young people who’s lives are at risk, but that they also pose significant risk to others.
Have an understanding of why young people engage in violence
Have an understanding of the neurological effects of violence
Understanding how to navigate the balance of risk management and safety interventions
Full Day Workshop
Criminal Exploitation: County Lines and Beyond
This training provides information on the concepts, theory and risks associated with criminal exploitation. Beginning, but certainly not ending with county lines, this training was designed to expand the professional understanding of the many forms of criminal exploitation, much of which has seen much less focus than county lines. Car key burglaries, deets/squares, shoplifting, cuckooing and debt bondage to name but a few.
Have a basic understanding of criminal exploitation and its many forms
Understand how to support young people experiencing criminal exploitation
Understanding key legislation regarding harm, exploitation and trafficking
Full Day Workshop
Urban Street Gangs and Organised Criminal Groups
Developing our understanding of Urban Street Gangs, Organised Crime and how young people are exposed to such dangers is vital to anyone engaging with young people at risk.
Understand the concept and definitions of USGs and OCGs.
Understanding criminological underpinnings of such phenomena.
Thinking critically about “gangs”
Understand the development and practices of urban street gangs, organised crime and their relationships to tech, the Dark Web and emerging technologies.
Full Day Workshop
Drug Markets, The Dark Web and Young People
This training provides information on, and space to discuss the impact of ever-evolving drug markets. Exploring various UK-based drug markets, how those substances are made here and abroad, how they are trafficked into the country and exploring what the "dark web" is. This session also explores and dismantles some ill-advised media portrayals of substances, their impacts and those who use them, as well as highlighting pragmatic, evidence-based understanding of various substances and associated harm profiles.
Half Day Workshop