Advanced Safeguarding for DSLs (Online and In-Venue)

This is a four-session course for DSLs over a full-day, each of around 75 mins in duration.

Safeguarding children and young people in the 21st Century seems to become more and more complex. Effective safeguarding relies on clear and easily understandable systems and procedures. The school's culture forms the safe environment for children to develop and grow.

In this course for Designated Safeguarding Leads, colleagues will learn why school culture is so important and how to build the solid structures that will support staff and students, even when tough challenges come along. The course includes many practical downloadable resources, including a pdf copy of the latest Safeguarding Handbook.

This course will help you meet the statutory requirement for Designated Safeguarding Leads.

"I came to a session in Birmingham back in 2019 (the day after the GE I think) and it was superb. Today [online] was just as good, if not better. The use of video mixed with live speaking was excellent and goes way beyond what other safeguarding courses provide. You've been there and done it, and your openness with your own story is inspirational." 

£197+vat per person

Group Pricing (Online)

• Small Group (5 – 10 people): £797 + VAT
• Medium Group (11 – 20 people): £997 + VAT
• Large Group (21 – 30 people): £1267+ VAT

For group orders please use the Purchase Order form.

Whole School Safeguarding Course (Online)

In this two and half hour online presentation (which includes a 15-minute break) is aimed at staff in all roles, specialist safeguarding consultant, Andrew Hall, explores important aspects of safeguarding in schools including child protection, learning from case studies and the latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education.

"In my excitement, I forgot to add our star rating to the Safeguarding training we have just watched. If we could, we would give it 10 stars! That was the best Safeguarding training we have ever had, thank you so much. Feedback from staff has, so far, been overwhelmingly positive…I can't thank you enough."

"I would like to extend my thanks to Andrew for his fantastic online training. It was filmed so well - almost as if he were here with us! We were kept engaged throughout and felt so well informed - a huge thank you. It was a real success, and we look forward to booking you again in the future - with the staff team saying it was the best safeguarding training they have ever had. We really appreciated Andrew's real-life storytelling and the way such sensitive information was shared - it was excellent training."

£695+vat

Safeguarding and Governance (Online)

Ensuring that schools keep pupils safe is an important aspect of governance. In this seminar, specialist safeguarding consultant, Andrew Hall, helps governors and trustees understand their strategic safeguarding role, recognise many of the risks to young people and discover ways to ensure that safeguarding has impact.

Duration: 2 hours

This course will help you meet the statutory requirement for governor training to understand their strategic safeguarding role.

£29.97+vat per person

Bookings are made either by debit/credit card or Purchase Order. (Immediate access is only possible when using a debit/credit card.)

Safeguarding Refresher (Online)

This video presentation is particularly suitable for staff who may have missed the school's Annual Refresher training at the beginning of the school year. It is also a useful resource for staff or volunteers who join the school during the academic year.

Contents

• Definition of Safeguarding
• An effective safeguarding model
• More vulnerable groups of children
• The Safeguarding System
• What are the risks for the young people you work with
• The four different types of abuse and neglect
• Learning from serious case reviews
• Harmful Sexual Behaviour
• Dealing with a disclosure
• An escalating response
• Female Genital Mutilation
• FGM - who should report
• Mental Health
• Filtering and Monitoring
• How you can HELP

Duration: 1hr 38mins (Two sessions which may viewed at different times)

A certificate of completion will be sent out by email after the presentation has been viewed.

Pricing

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT PRICING
It is intended that this course is available when your new staff join throughout the year. The best way to do this is to buy a pack of 'codes'. The new staff member enters the code into the checkout page and signs into their account to access the training.

Individual £29.75 +vat per person (Online payment only)

Pack of 10 codes £200 +vat per person (Purchase Order only)

Pack of 25 codes £300 +vat flat rate (Purchase Order only)

Codes must be used before the end of the current academic year, (ie before 31st July 2024).

Pay by Invoice

To pay by invoice, please complete the purchase order form here:
Purchase Order Form

This course will help you meet the statutory requirement to ensure that new staff are suitably trained.

£29.75+vat per person

Bookings are made either by debit/credit card or Purchase Order. (Immediate access is only possible when using a debit/credit card.)

An Introduction to Cybersecurity (Online)

This course will give a good introduction to cybersecurity, including common methods that attackers use, why schools are a target and how the risk of attacks can be reduced.

Duration: 1hr 12mins

A certificate of completion will be sent out by email after the presentation has been viewed.

Pricing

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT PRICING
It is intended that this course is available when your new staff join throughout the year. The best way to do this is to buy a pack of 'codes'. The new staff member enters the code into the checkout page and signs into their account to access the training.

Individual £29.75 +vat per person (Online payment only)

Pack of 10 codes £200 +vat per person (Purchase Order only)

Pack of 25 codes £300 +vat flat rate (Purchase Order only)

Codes must be used before the end of the current academic year, (ie before 31st July 2024).

Pay by Invoice

To pay by invoice, please complete the purchase order form here:
Purchase Order Form

This course will help you meet the statutory requirement to ensure that new staff are suitably trained.

£29.75+vat per person

Bookings are made either by debit/credit card or Purchase Order. (Immediate access is only possible when using a debit/credit card.)

Developing a culture of supervision (In venue only)

I think supervision for DSLs has always been important, but more recently I think that colleagues are dealing with such a wide-range of issues and providing more early help themselves than they have ever done. 

The key government guidance document, Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023)(paragraphs 25-270) refers to supervision; and it is mandatory in the Early Years’ Framework (2024) (paragraph 3.27). Serious case reviews continue to cite a lack of supervision as one of the contributory factors.

Over the few years, I’ve been supporting schools to develop supervision within their schools, or more widely, across their cluster, or multi-academy trust. I’ve now developed a day course to give headteachers and DSLs the essential tools to create a reflective supervision culture in their school.

At the end of the course you will have a structure that will provide a great starting pointing to develop a culture of supervision in your school. The take-away toolkit will include everything you need to take action straight away.

This course will help schools develop a culture of supervision in which Designated Safeguarding Leads will be able to:

• deal with the frustrations and possible vicarious trauma of their role
• have the strategies to deal with 'stuck' cases
• reflect on their own emotional response
• see things from a different point-of-view
• support their safeguarding team
• improve staff and student well-being
• develop consistent approaches, practices and procedures
• promote strengths
• increase confidence
• explore all avenues for the good of the children and young people

To book:

Please email [email protected]