Early Identification of Neglect
Early intervention is paramount when identifying and responding to neglect we understand practitioners want to put the right support in place and prevent situations escalating, but at the same time they are holding risk and feeling uneasy/unsure about the right/best way forward. Our course will support staff to consider some of the key areas and impact on practice including:
- Working with intuition
- The importance of Professional curiosity
- What is their role?
- What is acceptable?
- How to ask probing and difficult questions without damaging working relationships.
This course will be useful for those working in early help services and those in universal services such as children centres, nurseries and schools.
It will provide a safe place to explore neglect and increase confidence around building effective relationships, professional curiosity and asking questions/probing to gain information. We will share tools and techniques to support their work.
We can provide between a 1 day and a 3 day programme, tailored to your needs. Our 3-day programme covers:
- What is neglect?
- The early signs of neglect including emotional neglect, adolescent neglect, medical neglect, food poverty, exploitation and risk
- What is the impact of neglect
- Myths and misconceptions
- Lessons learnt from Serious Case reviews
- The case for Early Intervention
- What are you seeing in your practice? What are you concerned about?
- Building Effective Relationships
- Motivational, restorative and collaborative relationships
- Barriers to building and maintaining relationships
- Engaging those who are hard to engage
- Professional Curiosity
- Voice of the child
- Timely and effective responses
- Assessing risk
- Evidence gathering
- Case study application
- Chronologies and other tools
- Screening tools
- Multi agency working
- Partnership relationships
- Information sharing
- Escalation procedures
- Your role– limitations and responsibility
- The role of support and supervision and professional challenge
- What next: Action planning
- All courses are offered on a Face to Face or Virtual basis.
- Bespoke & Open Training Courses Available.
Case Studies
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Shropshire ATHE Level 4 Working with Children, Individuals and families
Shropshire early Help Service were keen to offer an accredited program to key staff that would enhance skills confidence and knowledge and be flexible enough to include internal processes and vision.Read More -
Cheshire West & Chester- Mental Health Issues and Their Impact on Families
Interface were delighted to be working with Cheshire West and Chester to raise awareness about Mental Health issues and the impact on families.Read More -
Ceredigion - Parental Substance Misuse
Ceredigion Council asked us to run a workshop looking at the impact of parental substance misuse on children and young people.Read More -
Trauma Informed Practice training - Cheshire and Merseyside Social Work Teaching Partnership
We provided a large training programme and associated support to the Cheshire and Merseyside Social Work Teaching Partnership
Cancellation Policy
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