Designated Safeguarding Lead specific to children's residential settings

Trainer

The training is facilitated by me - Jacqui McCann. I have over twenty years of experience working with children and young people. I have worked in many roles in residential settings and have focussed on safeguarding and child protection. I have a MA in professional practice with children and young people where I completed my dissertation on children being deprived of their liberty and the link to children being exploited. I am now starting my professional doctorate study where I aim to continue my work in this area. I have been delivering training for fifteen years to all levels in children's residential settings.

During my time working with services I identified a gap in focussed training at DSL level in residential settings. This training has been designed specifically to meet this need and provide individuals with knowledge and tools to support their role.

Designated safeguarding lead

The DSL training I deliver is specific to current and national trends that children are facing. The training aims to provide leaders and managers with the key skills to manage safeguarding concerns and contextual risks. The training can be bespoke to current trends in your individual settings and will also focus on a range of core topics. This is CPD accreditred training.

Aims -

* To provide candidates with a depth of knowledge on what safeguarding children means.

* Understanding the current legislation, guidance and how that applies to the role of the DSL in children's residential settings.

* To provide confidence in the decision making and escalation around safeguarding decisions.

* To adhere to policy and procedures within your organisation and local authorities.

Objectives -

* To use a range of learning tools to explore the role of the DSL.

* To apply practical skills to legislation and thresholds.

* To exercise professional curiosity and implementing regulation 5 to further safeguard children and young people.

* To explore key areas in decision making.

* To explore the application of theory and knowledge to how we manage safeguarding on a day to day basis.

* To practice the art of active listening in safeguarding terms.

Areas covered -

The training will explore the following areas -

* Current legislation and report findings.

* DSL oversight and actions.

* Contextual safeguarding.

* Practical mapping and multi agency support (including tackling child exploitation and the use of the national referral mechanism).

* Embedding an open culture and providing confidence in staff around whistleblowing, allegation management, disclosures, and escalation.

* Managing fact finding and practice based support.

* Current and merging threats (VR, Sextortion, Ritualistic abuse, Vaping etc. )

* Managing deprivation of liberty.

* The children's wellbeing and schools bill updates and the mental health bill updates.

The training benefits from detail on any current risks related to the settings of the children's homes. This provides a bespoke and relevant theme to the training to ensure the attendees can apply the learning to real scenarios. Following the training a full resource list is provided and updates will be sent in the future to support knowledge and continued professional development. This is a full day training.