WST Training update August and September 2024

Welcome to the latest edition of the training bulletin which details the training schedule for August and September 2024.

If you have any training related query, please email WSTTraining@wolverhampton.gov.uk

 Bulletin Summary 

• Trauma Informed Practice
• An Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
• Working with Trauma in Early Years
• Ending Male Violence Against Women and Girls Awareness
• #LookCloser: Safeguarding Care Experienced Young People from Exploitation
• Exploitation Awareness
• #LookCloser: Financial Exploitation
• Multi-agency Restorative Practice
• Professional Curiosity bite size session
• Training account top tips!

Trauma Informed Practice

This webinar has been developed in partnership between the West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership and Barnardo's.  It is aimed at people who already have a basic knowledge of ACEs and who may have completed the Introduction to ACEs module. In this course we develop the theoretical ideas further and give participants ways to apply their learning to practice and to begin working in a trauma-informed way.

Objectives:

• To develop understanding of the theory and concepts behind the potential impact of ACEs and trauma across the life course
• To understand what trauma-informed and trauma-responsive practice looks, sounds and feels like.
• To gain a basic understanding into how an organisation can begin a journey towards a trauma-informed organisational culture. The session is structured to return to key ideas and reinforce core messages as take home learning.

Please use the links below to book your place:

12th August 2024 | 9am - 1:30pm

27th August 2024 | 9am - 1:30pm

9th September 2024 | 9am - 1:30pm

23rd September 2024 | 9am - 1:30pm

An Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

This course offers something both for those who are new to childhood adversity (ACEs) and trauma as a concept and those with some existing prior knowledge. It is aimed at both those who work with children and young people AND those who work regularly with adults.

This course discusses trauma. Trauma can be a multisensory experience, it can happen to anyone at any point in their lives, it may leave us with unexpected moments of overwhelm. During this training we try to make it as safe as possible and provide you with take care warnings throughout and offer emotional regulation techniques.

Objectives:

• To develop understanding of the concepts behind the potential impact of childhood adversity and trauma across the life course
• To understand how to recognise the signs of trauma in behaviour.
• To recognise and understand the potential impact of working with trauma, including concepts such as vicarious trauma.
• To gain a basic understanding into how an organisation can begin a journey towards a trauma-informed organisational culture.

Please use the links below to book your place:

13th August 2024 | 9am - 12:30pm

28th August 2024 | 9am - 12:30pm

10th September 2024 | 9am - 12:30pm

24th September 2024 | 0am - 12:30pm

Working with Trauma in Early Years

By focusing on Trauma in the Early Years, practitioners will be able to support children in identifying how to stay safe and encourage them to share when they may be struggling. This training aims to support practitioners in understanding signs of trauma and how it may present in the early years.

Please use the links below to book your place:

29th August 2024 | 10am - 11:30am

26th September 2024 | 10am - 11:30am

Ending Male Violence Against Women and Girls Awareness

#LookCloser: Safeguarding Care Experienced Young People from Exploitation

This session is designed for safeguarding professionals working with care experienced young people and will explore the specific issues they face in relation to exploitation. Incorporating learning from the practice principles for responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm developed by The Children’s Society, the University of Bedfordshire and Research in Practice; we will explore systemic challenges within the care system and how these affect young people’s experience of exploitation, alongside considering potential solutions. We will also share examples of promising practice from across England and Wales.

In this session we will:

• Discuss the appropriate placement of children entering, in or leaving care and the challenges for those moved ‘out of area’ as a response to exploitation concerns.
• Explore the importance of considering disruption alongside decisions to move children ‘out of area’.
• Consider the specific exploitation risks for care experienced young people as they transition to adulthood and between child and adult services and promising practice in responding to these.
• Explore effective information sharing across multi-agency networks and how this can help ensure that they are safeguarded effectively against the risks of going missing and experiencing exploitation.

This session is delivered by The Children's Society Prevention Programme.

Please use the link below to book your place:

29th August 2024 | 1pm

Exploitation Awareness

This two day course will support you to:

• Understand the different forms of child exploitation.
• Explore the different methods of grooming, the impact this can have on children’s lives and the potential signs to be aware of.
• Enhance your knowledge of key legislation, policy, national approaches and good practice.
• Learn how contextual safeguarding can increase the scope and success of disruption tactics available to professionals.
• Understand the impact of child exploitation on families, and how to work along families to increase your capacity to safeguard children.

This is a face to face course and your attendance is required on both days. 

Please use the link below to book your place:

11th and 12th September 2024 | 9:30am - 4:30pm

#LookCloser: Financial Exploitation

The Financial Exploitation of children and young people is not new, however it is emerging as a growing concern, particularly in relation to children being tricked, coerced, and forced into financial crime. This includes being targeted by an individual or an Organised Crime Group, who exploit children and young people to commit fraud and launder criminal funds through their bank accounts. This is a form of Child Criminal Exploitation.

Child Exploitation is Child Abuse. Financial exploitation can cause significant harm to a young person and have long lasting effects on their life. It can also be connected to other harms including child sexual abuse/exploitation. Yet despite this, the financial exploitation of children and young people is not well understood and can often be overlooked.

At The Children’s Society, we are developing our understanding of financial exploitation and advocating for professionals to view it as a specific harm type unto itself, as well as understanding its context within and connection to other forms of exploitation and abuse. In this session for all professionals interacting with children and young people we will:

• Explore recent learning and emerging insights on the financial exploitation of children and young people.
• Share experiences from The Children’s Society’s national Prevention Programme’s work alongside learning from partners including law enforcement, social care, and the banking and finance sector.
• Consider the implications of our findings with regards to safeguarding young people from harm and preventing their exploitation.
• Create an interactive opportunity to hear about how other professionals are responding to this emerging area.
• Provide a space to consider your own ability to identify and respond to Financial Exploitation and contribute to The Children’s Society’s evidence gathering and research on this topic.

Delivered by: The Children's Society

Please use the link below to book your place:

16th September 2024 | 10am - 12pm

Multi-agency Restorative Practice

Restorative Practice is a strengths-based model in working with children and families, a relational and solution focused approach which encourages high aspirations and high expectations to achieve good outcomes for children.

Restorative Practice means strengthening relationships as well as strengthening social connections within communities. In Wolverhampton, we are committed to restorative core beliefs and principles, embedding restorative practice as a fundamental part of our work with children and families.

Restorative practices range from formal to informal processes that enable workers, managers, children, young people and their families to communicate effectively.

The processes used, focus on removing barriers, and proactively promoting a sense of community, understanding, social responsibility and shared accountability.

The training takes place over three days at the Civic Centre in Wolverhampton, You must attend all three days.

Please use the link below to book your place:

18th and 19th September 2024 and 10th October 2024 | 9:30am - 4:30pm

Please note: City of Wolverhampton Council employees should use the Learning Zone via the intranet to book your place.

Professional Curiosity bite size session

This session is designed to raise awareness of the need to be professionally curious when working with children, families and adults with care and support needs. Many recent local and national reviews have highlighted that those working/volunteering with children, families and adults with care and support needs have sometimes lacked professional curiosity when assessing and making decisions.

Objectives:

• Understand what professional curiosity is.
• Have a greater in-depth knowledge of how a lack of professional curiosity can affect the child, young person, the family or adult with care and support needs.
• Understand ways to overcome barriers and challenges which surround professional curiosity.

Please use the link below to book your place:

20th September 2024 | 11am - 12:30pm

Training account top tips!

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• Use your own account to make a course booking as you will not receive the Teams link or attendance certificate if someone else books on your behalf.  You can create your own account here.
• Do not share screens for the training session as it will not be recorded that you have attended the session and you may be charged for this.
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