Duration: 6 Hours

Target Audience: This course is suitable for all Practitioners working within Children’s Services, that could potentially contribute in accessing, planning, intervening and reviewing the needs of a child and parenting capacity.

Aims for this course:

• Understand the impact of Neglect on the wellbeing and long term outcomes for children and young people.

• Provide supporting information on multiple incidents of Neglect and how this impacts children and young people when they go into adulthood.

• Introduction to the Leicester Leicestershire & Rutland LSCB Neglect Toolkit.

Learning outcomes for this course:

• To recognise signs and symptoms of children and young people who are, or may be, neglected.

• To identify concerns about parenting capacity that may contribute to neglect.

• To identify family and environmental factors which may contribute to neglect.

• To understand the importance of looking beyond single incidents (cumulative harm).

NB SOCIAL WORKERS - THIS COURSE CONTRIBUTES TOWARDS THE KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS STATEMENTS 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, & 10

Please note: This even is subject to the LSCB’s non-attendance charging policy. If you're unable to attend, please cancel your ticket via Eventbrite, otherwise you will still be liable for the non-attendance fee.