A Shared Responsibility - Safeguarding lead training part 1

Target audience: Children’s workforce safeguarding leads.

Aims and objectives:

• Define inter-agency roles and responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
• Describe the processes involved in engaging with professionals, children and families, including contributing to strategy discussions, child protection conferences, reviews and the child protection plan.
• Consider relevant messages from research and how to apply underpinning theories into the safeguarding process, including the concept of 'resilience'.
• List the protocols and procedures to be followed, including the ways in which information will be shared and recorded across professional boundaries, within and between agencies.