Effective Referrals to Children's Services

Cost - £149+VAT for members, £199+VAT for non-members - Book 5 places and get your 6th free!

Making referrals is central to the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL). It is a key responsibility outlined in the DSL’s job description in early years settings, schools and colleges in Keeping Children Safe in Education. 


Although a vital part of the DSL’s role, making referrals and sharing concerns can be difficult, and as such, the referral stage is recognised to be a vulnerable point in the process. This course provides an insight into the issues that exist within the process and the wider context of social care, and is designed to build staff confidence in writing an effective referral to children’s services.

Presenter

Rachael Courage is a qualified social worker with 20 years practice experience. She is an experienced trainer in child safeguarding and child protection and has managed sexual exploitation and missing services for Barnardos, including setting up services in new areas and working with Child Safeguarding Assurance Partnership around their strategic response to child sexual exploitation.

Rachael has been the safeguarding lead for the children and young people's service within a hospice and has worked for the NSPCC delivering individual and group therapeutic interventions for children who have experienced abuse.

Rachael is currently practicing as a Chair for Child Protection Conferences for a Local Authority.

Aims and objectives:

To enable staff to: 

  • Understand the legal framework and their responsibilities
  • ​Gain a shared understanding of pressures​
  • Show empathy, curiosity, confidence and develop a learning culture
  • ​Develop a structured approach​ to referral writing
  • Understand the use of tools in risk assessment​
  • Encourage open communication & feedback loops/escalation

What you need to know to attend:

The course will run for one session via Zoom.

Registration starts at 9:15, then the course will run from 9:30-14:45.

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