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Welcome to the latest edition of the training bulletin which details the training schedule for October and November 2024.
If you have any training related query, please email WSTTraining@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Bulletin Summary
Violence against women and girls covers a range of distressing and unacceptable crimes, they take place in every locality across the UK and can happen within current or previous relationships, in families, and in communities. West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership (WMVRP) is working with partners, local authorities and communities to prevent these crimes from happening, starting at an early age.
This training will cover;
- A brief overview of violence against women and girls (VAWG)
- What is ending male violence against women and girls (EMVAWG)?
- The government’s strategy to ending male violence against women and girls
- What is the Public Health Approach to Violence and what the VRP are prioritising as part of the agenda?
Please use the links below to book your place:
24th October 2024 | 10am - 11:30am
27th November 2024 | 10am - 11:30am
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:
31st October 2024 | 10am - 11:30am
28th November 2024 | 10am - 11:30am
This session runs frequently and not all sessions are listed above. For all listings please visit the Violence Reduction Partnership Eventbrite page.
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:
7th, 8th and 21st November 2024
Please note: City of Wolverhampton Council employees should use the Learning Zone via the intranet to book your place.
This course aims to raise awareness of:
- what constitutes an allegation against staff, carers and volunteers
- how allegations should be managed, and the procedures that should be followed.
- The role of the ‘Local Authority Designated Officer' role and the support this can provide
- Roles and responsibilities of the key individuals within the reporting organisation, local authority and the police.
To increase participants confidence in:
- responding, recording and reporting allegations
- overcoming barriers to responding appropriately to allegations
- seeking support from the LADO, where appropriate
- reviewing their allegation management processes
Target Audience: Designated Safeguarding Leads and/or senior managers responsible for receiving, responding to and managing allegations.
Applicants must have completed a minimum of Introduction to Safeguarding course within their own agency and undertake the role of managing any allegation made within their organisation.
12th November 2024 | 10am - 1:30pm
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:
18th November 2024 | 12:30pm - 2pm
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:
1st October 2024 | 9am - 1:30pm
8th October 2024 | 9am - 1:30pm
5th November 2024 | 9am - 1:30pm
This session runs frequently and not all sessions are listed above. For all listings please visit the Violence Reduction Partnership Eventbrite page.
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:
7th October 2024 | 9am - 12:30pm
This session runs frequently and not all sessions are listed above. For all listings please visit the Violence Reduction Partnership Eventbrite page.
Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together Partnership encourages every organisation, large or small, to identify a person/s to take the on the role of safeguarding lead. This person/s will be the link for any safeguarding concerns, support others within the organisation and act as a champion for raising awareness of safeguarding information. The safeguarding lead is expected to have undertaken the following courses as a minimum:
- A Shared Responsibility
- Thresholds to Support
- Working Together to Safeguard Children
Following completion of all the above courses and to remain in the role of safeguarding lead you are required to complete a refresher course once every two years:
- Safeguarding Leads 2 yearly update
We currently have places available on the following safeguarding lead courses. Please use the links below to book your place:
A Shared Responsibility | 19th November 2024 | 9:30am - 12:30pm
Thresholds to Support | 19th November 2024 | 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Please ensure that you:
- 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.
- Familiarise yourself with our Terms and Conditions.
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Any questions? Please email WSTTraining@wolverhampton.gov.uk. We are more than happy to help!
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