Target Audience: Professionals who work with or who have regular contact with children and young people.

Trainer: Nikki Thorpe, Lewisham Safeguarding Children Board

Dates: TBA

Delegates: 20 places

Aims & Objectives

Understanding the role and functions of your Safeguarding Children Partnership.
Introduction to key themes from child safeguarding practice reviews, locally and nationally.
Introduction to a child centred practice and a co-ordinated response to safeguarding children and young people,
including professional curiosity and what children and young people need from those who work with them.
Introduction to the roles and functions of safeguarding and child protection leads in your organisation.
Introduction of the role of the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
Introduction to Lewisham's Continuum of Need, a consent based model.

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