Welcome to the Wiltshire Local Safeguarding Children Board Child Protection Training Programme for 2007/08.
The Local Safeguarding Children Board came into being in June 2005 replacing the Area Child Protection Committee. The multi-agency LSCB training sub-committee is responsible for identifying training needs and managing and delivering the training programme to all staff across Wiltshire. This includes the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors.
Multi-Agency training enables staff to work effectively both within their own agency and across organisational boundaries.
In order to meet the differing levels of training needs across the range of agencies and staff roles, the courses are targeted according to the level of contact with children and families and level of responsibility for safeguarding children.
The Levels of Training as Identified in the Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 Document P69
Level 1
Staff in contact with children and young people and with adults who are parent's or carers. These will be people who are in a position to identify concerns about maltreatment, including those which may arise from use of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF), and who, as a minimum, need introductory training on how to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This includes housing and hospital staff, youth workers, child minders, private foster carers, those working with children in residential and day care settings and those working in sport and leisure settings in both a paid and unpaid capacity.
Level 2
Staff who work regularly with children and young people, and with adults who are carers, and who may be asked to contribute to assessments of children in need. This includes GPs, hospital and community health staff, family centre workers, teachers, education welfare officers, social workers, mental health and learning disability staff, probation officers. This group should have a higher minimum level of expertise: a fuller understanding of how to work together to identify and assess concerns, to plan, undertake and review interventions.
Level 3
Staff with a particular responsibility for safeguarding children, such as designated or named health and education professionals, police, social workers, and other professionals undertaking section 47 enquiries or working with complex cases, including fabricated and induced illness. Those in this group need to have a thorough understanding of working together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, including in complex and / or serious cases.
Whilst the LSCB Training sub-Committee provide a comprehensive multi-agency training programme, further work is being carried out in completing a training audit, with a view to identifying training needs for single agencies as a requirement of Children Act 2004, Sect 11. The outcome of this audit will inform the provision of a further training programme as necessary. This will be published later in the year on the wiltshirepathways website.
The LSCB training programme is underpinned by an ethos which values working together collaboratively across agencies, respect diversity, promote equality, is child centred and promotes the participation of children, young people and families in the processes.
The purpose of Multi-Agency training is to help develop better outcomes for children and young people.
To request a place on a child protection training course, please click here/on the link below, select the appropriate course and complete the online application form:
CP Training Course Online Application
Alternatively, complete the application form from the Training Programme and send to:
Childrens' Partnership Training Administrator,
Training Office,
County Hall Bythesea Road,
Trowbridge
BA14 8LE
Please also see the Wiltshire Pathways web site.
