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Duration
1 day

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In-house

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Recent high profile tragic cases have highlighted the need for increased vigilance on child abuse. These are extreme cases. However, much child abuse goes unnoticed and unreported. It’s rarely a one-off incident and can happen in all areas of society.

Safeguarding children is a key responsibility for housing professionals whose work may bring them into contact (including by telephone) with children and their families. Government welfare reforms and housing policies will present housing professionals with even greater challenges when considering the safeguarding of children and young people and identifying concerns for those who are most vulnerable. You need to know what is meant by safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and what to do if you or someone you know has concerns that a child is at risk.

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    This one-day course is designed to give housing staff a comprehensive introduction to child protection and safeguarding children and covers:
    • Headline cases
    • Law and guidance
    • The impact of abuse and neglect
    • Signs and symptoms
    • Defining those children who are most vulnerable
    • What to do if you have concerns, and how to get them heard
    • Record-keeping
    • Confidentiality and information-sharing
    • Working with parents, and with other professionals
    • Child protection processes
    • Personal practice.

    Who should attend?

    • Neighbourhood housing management officers
    • Housing allocation, homelessness and floating support officers
    • Tenant liaison services
    • Anti-social behaviour teams
    • Community wardens
    • Repairs officers/team leaders/managers and estate-based staff
    • Those working with the Troubled Families programme.
  • Our trainer

    Tahira (Tara) Hussain Tedx Speaker

    MA MSc CBP PG Dip CBT PG Cert APIMH BA (Hons) MBPsS

    Tara has extensive experience working in the statutory and voluntary sector. She has a 29-year career in mental health, community development, charity and the housing sector. She has a successful track record in consultancy, training and project management. Tara is qualified as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and she is a member of the BABCP and BPS.

    Working as a training associate for national agencies she has utilised her experience in the housing, health and care sector and delivered a menu of training packages aimed to support staff, stakeholders and residents on a range of topics including mental health and wellbeing, safeguarding children & adults, equality, diversity, inclusion, professional boundaries & effective psychological intervention.

We can bring this course to you.
If you have five or more staff interested our in-house training offers great value for money.

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