Learning & development

East Region Learning Event

We are delighted to invite you to a learning event taking place during:

13^th - 17^th September 2021 13:00-14:00
20^th- 24^th September 2021 13:00-14:00

We have joined the NHS England and other partners across the East Region to create the agenda which we hope will be of interest to practitioners across all professions. The event has a large booking capacity and recorded sessions will be available too so please share with colleagues far and wide.

Please access the agenda and registration on the sessions via the following link:

https://eastsafeguardinglearningplatform.co.uk

Please note:

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Don’t worry if you can’t make a session you want to see as the sessions will be recorded. If you register on the platform you will have access to all the recordings after the two weeks have finished.

Watch this space as we will also be recording some bonus sessions.

We are looking forward to you joining us and we hope you find the sessions informative.

Learning Event at a glance:

Learning Weeks Agenda

Week One

Date

13th - 17th September 2021

Time

13:00 - 14:00

Title

Safeguarding through the lifespan

Monday 13th September 2021 (13:00-13:30)

Session 1

Introduction from Geraldine Rodgers and Multiagency Pre-birth Safeguarding: Considerations for best practice - Nicola Nelson

Monday 13th September 2021 (13:30-14:00)

Session 2

Reconsidering CT head scans in suspected physical abuse. Research presentations – Dr. Helen Daly, Dr. Alison Kemp and Dr. Emilia Wawrzkowicz

Tuesday 14th September 2021 (13:00-13:30)

Session 3

Safeguarding Children; The role of a Community Perinatal Team – Linzi Barnes

Tuesday 14th September 2021 (13:30-14:00)

Session 4

The experience of safeguarding from a patient’s perspective through a midwife's eyes – Toni Doherty

Wednesday 15th September 2021 (13:00-13:30)

Session 5

Transition and Looked After Children - Dr Vicki Walker

Wednesday 15th September 2021 (13:30-14:00)

Session 6

Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme – Dr Emily Handley-Cole

Thursday 16th September 2021 (13:00-13:30)

Session 7

Vulnerability - Transitional Safeguarding: towards a fluid response for adolescents and young adults – Dez Holmes

Thursday 16th September 2021 (13:30-14:00)

Session 8

Older People and Domestic Abuse – it’s not always Adult Safeguarding – Amanda Warburton

Friday 17th September 2021 (13:00-13:30)

Session 9

Mental Capacity Act: A quick refresher – Chelle Farnan

Friday 17th September 2021 (13:30-14:00)

Session 10

Julie Hall introduces the lived experience of Trauma Informed Care – Julie Hall

Week Two

Date

20th - 24th September 2021

Time

13:00 - 14:00

Title

PREVENT, Information sharing and complex safeguarding issues

Monday 20th September (13:00-14:00)

Session 11

A welcome from Vicky Washington and Confidence building in sharing information - a legal view – Eve Piffaretti

Tuesday 21st September 2021 (13:00-13:30)

Session 12

A day in the life of a PREVENT officer – Rebecca Brennan

Tuesday 21st September 2021 (13:30-14:00)

Session 13

Incel – An Introduction – Paul Hydon

Wednesday 22nd September 2021 (13:00-14:00)

Session 14

The role of the interventionalist supporting survivors – Manwar Ali

Thursday 23rd September 2021 (13:00-14:00)

Session 15

‘Online Grooming: Breck’s Story’ – Lorin LaFava

Friday 24th September 2021 (13:00-14:00)

Session 16

'Extremism....a mothers experience and the impact on families - Nicola Benyahia and Conclusion of learning weeks by Anneliese Hillyer-Thake

Successful Stevenage Share and Learn event

After being delayed for over a year the Stevenage Share and Learn event took place, very successfully, on 7th July.

Below are some of the resources shared at the event which you may find useful:-

For Baby’s Sake:

- ACEs and using trauma-informed approaches presentation
- Trauma Insight: Overview of the three tools, and Growing up with Adversity;
- The For Baby’s Sake Trust is releasing a new animated film, “The Impact”, where mothers and fathers tell their stories, in their own voices, of how For Baby’s Sake has empowered them to break cycles of domestic abuse and create a better future for themselves and their baby. (You can watch the film here.)

ABC Life Support:

- Mental Health First Aid Presentation (Stevenage Share & Learn – MH.pdf)

Gamcare:-

- A Gambling harms factsheet to support you with identification, intervention and referral going forward and posters to raise awareness;
- How to find your nearest treatment partner:https://www.gamcare.org.uk/get-support/find-local-treatment/;
- You can find electronic versions of all of our leaflets here and would like some more physical copies of our leaflets, you can order them here.

Update your skills to better support children and young people with SEND

Over 1 in 10 of children and young people in schools in Hertfordshire have SEN Support and 8,338 children and young people have an Education Health and Care Plan – so if you work with children and young people it’s very likely that you are working with children with SEND.

It is therefore essential that you have the skills and knowledge to confidently support children or young people with SEND and their families and/or carers.

The SEND Strategy Programme identified that practitioners in non-SEND specialist services (early help and safeguarding teams) wanted more information about how to identify and respond to SEND in their work with families.

As a result a team of practitioners from across health, education and social care, together with parent carers of children with SEND, have been designing e-learning modules to achieve this.

The result will be a suite of 3 modules and a resource hub, for any practitioner to access, no matter what organisation they work for.

Resources are already available in the Hub for practitioners to use and Module 1, An Introduction to SEND, is available on iLearn. and can be accessed by partners in the following ways:

Option 1: Partners who already have access to HCC iLearn

Partners that already have iLearn accounts will be able to access the module(s) and resources free of charge
Partners can request monthly reports of staff to confirm who has completed the module by contacting CS L&D Team via CSTraining@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Option 2: Partners who have their own online Learning Management System (LMS)

Partners that have their own LMS can contact Mohan Ballard, who will be able to share the module file and links to resources (free of charge)
Partners upload these files on to their own LMS for staff to access
Partners will be able to report on who has completed the module following their own processes

Option 3: Partners can request access to HCC iLearn

Partners can request licenses for HCC iLearn via the Create New Account link (costs: £22.50 + VAT per license, per year)
Access to a number of other eLearning modules and support via dedicated iLearn Team
Completion reports can be requested via CS L&D Team via CSTraining@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Option 4: Module uploaded on to Families First Portal

eLearning modules can be uploaded on Families First Portal
All partners can access FF Portal free of charge
There are no reporting functions on the site, so partners will not be able to confirm who has completed

Our ambition is for all who work with CYP with SEND to access the same training, so we can use the same language and confidently support families with CYP with SEND, no matter what our employing organisation. We would be happy to work with your learning and development team to see how we can work together to achieve this ambition.

Let us know what you think and if you have ideas of what is needed in the Resource Hub: sendstrategy@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Trauma Informed Training

For Baby's Sake share tools and resources which may be useful to parents or professionals. Some of these are used within our own programme, For Baby’s Sake, or we’ve created them based on our experience of working with parents. We also suggest resources or support from other organisations.Resources to include trauma tools (Growing up with Adversity, Traumatised Children and Parents with Unresolved Trauma).

Trauma Insight: Overview of the three tools, and Growing up with Adversity

Watch "The Impact”, an animated film released by For Baby’s Sake Trust, where mothers and fathers tell their stories, in their own voices, of how For Baby’s Sake has empowered them to break cycles of domestic abuse and create a better future for themselves and their baby.

Mind in Mid Herts courses

Living Well Courses

Our ‘Living Well’ courses have been designed to support people make positive changes in their lives. Informed by psychological theories these guided self-help courses and workshops support you to understand your own experience and build new strategies to live a healthy life.

These online courses and workshops will be delivered via Zoom by an experienced Mind in Mid Herts trainer; giving you all the benefits of face-to-face support from your own homes.

You can book online at and take a look at all the courses and workshops that we are offering.

Mental Health Peer Supporter Open Courses

We are also offering Mental Health Peer Supporter Training Open Course online. This four week course certifies you to be a mental health peer supporter; supporting you to recognise the signs of mental distress and know how to respond appropriately.

By the end of this training delegates will have:

An in-depth understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect wellbeing
The ability to spot the signs of mental health issues
Confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress
Understanding the roles, responsibilities and boundaries of managing mental health in the workplace.
An understanding of the knowledge, qualities and skills needed to support someone in distress.
Know how to support their own wellbeing
Knowledge of national and local signposting options.
Everyone who completes the course will get a certificate and a supplementary manual to support their learning.

To book your place on this course, you can do this online at https://www.mindinmidherts.org.uk/product/12948/.

If you have any enquiries please do not hesitate to contact training@mindinmidherts.org.uk.

Workforce development

The vision for Families First training and development is to create a skilled, confident and resilient multi-agency workforce that supports whole family working.

To support this, we have brought together training courses that are available to practitioners across Hertfordshire. We aim to add new resources to this page when available and we have recently added some resources on Trauma Informed practice.

Please take a look at the page, bookmark and share with teams, where appropriate.

Workforce development (hertfordshire.gov.uk)

HSCP Learning & Development Programme

The HSCP/HSAB Summer 2021 Newsletter is now available on the HSCP website – Newsletter Summer 2021

Following the virtual launch of the Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership’s Neglect Strategy and Joint Campaign with the NSPCC, please see below a link to the Neglect Hub on the HSCP website. The resources available are as follows:

Neglect Strategy 2021-24
Practice Guidance
Neglect Strategy Toolkit
Link to the Graded Care Profile tool
The presentations from the launch by Dez Holmes, NSPCC and Operations Director, Matt Ansell
Posters

Neglect Hub Edge Browser

Neglect Hub Explore Browser