How confident are your staff in spotting and responding to harmful behaviours in line with their safeguarding responsibilities?

We’re excited to be teaming up with our friends at Psych-Logical to host this interactive online workshop on recognising and responding to harmful behaviours.

In this interactive, half-day course, we’ll explore how to recognise concerning behaviours and respond appropriately — especially in the context of PREVENT, exploitation, and harmful sexual behaviour.

Taking place on Tuesday 20 January (9.30am-1.00pm), this session will help you:

Spot behavioural indicators that may point to safeguarding concerns
Understand the psychology of grooming and the process of radicalisation
Build effective intervention strategies — to protect yourself and others
Approach difficult conversations using trauma-informed techniques
Identify referral routes and key support agencies

This is a practical course. Through real-life scenarios and peer discussion, you’ll come away with a clear plan of action and greater confidence in your duty of care.

You can book onto this workshop for £150+vat.

You will receive a CPD attendance certificate after the session, as evidence of your personal development.

Facilitators and speakers

Led by Louise Willis-Keeler, this session will be facilitated by safeguarding and behavioural specialists at Psych-Logical. Psych-Logical works with government, education providers and others to prevent mental health in children and young people, and is working closely with education providers as they deliver support and training to young people remotely.

Why SDN?

SDN works with partners, such as Psych-Logical to bring together top-quality specialists to support the FE and skills sector. We’ve worked with 2,000 FE & skills providers and over 11,500 practitioners over the last few years – allowing us to share practical insights and support you to take action.

Feedback from previous event attendees

“With just the right approach and pitch-perfect pace, Lou achieved the impossible by keeping all of us interested and actively involved with plenty of engagement opportunities. Lou has fantastic knowledge and warm and friendly style. We all came away feeling like it was time very well spent. Highly recommended.”

“Lou was really engaging, warm and creating a safe space for discussion and collaboration. The tasks where we made the characters were interesting and enjoyable.”

“The session was very informative and gave me new ideas to implement. Lou is an excellent trainer, extremely knowledgeable and approachable and used break out rooms well.”

Price and payment

To keep costs down, payment for the webinar series must be made online via credit card (book below). If you are a Local Authority, and unable to book via card, please email us on: events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk

Terms and conditions

The Terms and Conditions (including our refund policy) for SDN events and webinars can be found here. When you make a booking, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)

Any questions, please email the SDN events team: events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk

Recognising and responding to harmful behaviours