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Whole and Best Start in Life Services Family Assessment & Safeguarding in Family Hubs

Professionals in Family Hubs, Best Start in Life, Early Help and wider family services are often the first to spot emerging safeguarding concerns. Assessing risk across the whole family can be complex, especially when balancing relationship-based support with safeguarding responsibilities and professional curiosity.

This practical one-day course helps practitioners recognise, assess and respond to safeguarding concerns through a whole-family lens.

Rooted in relational, strengths-based practice, it shows how concerns emerge, how risk can be missed, and how to keep a child-centred focus while building positive relationships.

Through case studies, tools, discussion and reflection, the course strengthens confidence, analysis and critical thinking in safeguarding practice.

Practitioners leave with practical tools and greater confidence to use their learning in day-to-day work with children and families.

The course will cover:

  • Recognising early signs of safeguarding concerns, including neglect and disguised compliance
  • Understanding safeguarding within Family Hubs, Best Start in Life and Early Help services
  • Strengthening whole-family assessment and analysis skills
  • Professional curiosity and courageous conversations
  • Maintaining a child-centred approach within family work
  • Understanding risk, resilience and protective factors
  • Thresholds, escalation and safeguarding decision-making
  • Improving recording, analysis and multi-agency communication
  • Balancing strengths-based practice with safeguarding responsibilities
  • Practical tools and approaches to support reflective and analytical practice
  • All courses are offered on a Face to Face or Virtual basis.
  • Bespoke & Open Training Courses Available.

Case Studies

  • Unconscious Bias Training - Green School Trust Isleworth

    We provided training and a day’s workshop for the senior leadership team across Green School Trust.
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  • Stockton - Strategic Partnership Away Day

    We facilitated a session between Stockton Borough Council and Family Action who have been awarded a contract to deliver services across the area. Over a full day we worked with key senior leaders to consider vision, aims, risks and governance and create an action plan for the next few months.

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  • West Sussex, Assessment, Analysis and SMART Planning

    We developed and delivered a three-day program to the current cohort of Newly Qualified Social Workers in West Sussex.

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  • Camden - Early Help & Assessment Training

    Camden Council were looking for a training provider that could help embed their ‘Resilient Families’ Early Help agenda to a large number of multi-agency staff. We delivered a series of one-day introductory sessions to multi-agency professionals to raise awareness following the restructure of the Early Help offer for families in the borough.
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Cancellation Policy

We are very flexible and will do our utmost to rearrange training should the need arise, but our trainers obviously commit themselves to the training days agreed and so if you need to cancel at short notice we will need to charge a cancellation fee to cover their time. 

Please see our cancellation terms / fees.

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