Thresholds to Support (Safeguarding Lead Core Training, Part 1)

Target Audience

Anyone in contact with children, families through their work, including workers supporting adults with additional vulnerabilities, caring responsibilities or with their own care and support needs who have children in the household

Course Aim

This course should be pertinent for all services, organisations and agencies. Learning from the session can be used to form part of the staff induction for new workers in both adults and children services where roles and duties require an understanding of Wolverhampton's Multi-Agency Referral Process. It is also part of Safeguarding Lead training

Objectives - by the end of the course participants will be

• able to recognise and appropriately refer cases of concern in line with WSCB Threshold Policy.
• have examined and applied Wolverhampton's Threshold model and early intervention in a variety of case studies
• be able to describe the importance of embedding Early Help in practice
• to know when to request the involvement of other services
• describe the importance of gathering, recording and sharing information to support: -Child In Need (s17) and Child in Need of Protection (s47) referrals
• recognise the importance of the WST Escalation policy and when it is appropriate to use it.

Safeguarding Lead training should be refreshed every two years. Please book onto the half day Safeguarding Leads 2 Yearly Update via the Multi-Agency Training Calendar. Please note, safeguarding leads do not have to repeat any of the core courses as all updates are incorporated into this course