CHSCP: Group A/B/C - Safeguarding Children with Disabilities

The aim of the course:

This 1 day Multi-Agency training course is delivered in partnership by professionals from Education, Health, Hackney Children’s Social Care and Speech and Language Therapy. It aims to provide an overview of safeguarding children from a children with disabilities perspective.

The session will use case studies, group discussions and child safeguarding practice review findings to explore the vulnerabilities of disabled children and how to ensure that child protection systems are used to effectively safeguard children. Participants will also learn different ways of communicating with children with disabilities to ensure that their voice is heard, and be provided with resources to use for their organisations.

By the end of the course, participants will:

• have explored the particular vulnerabilities of children with disabilities and additional needs,
• have explored the barriers to recognising safeguarding issues in children with a disability,
• have considered how to ensure that child protection systems are used effectively to safeguard with a disability,
• have gained an appreciation of the impact on parents of caring for a child with a disability, and what types of support they may need,
• have explored different models of disability and how they might impact on the process of assessing risk, and
• have examined how societal beliefs and attitudes can impact on the protection of children with a disability.

A Note about Groups:

• Group A training is for people who are in contact with or work regularly with children and young people and with their parents/carers
• Group B training is for people who work regularly with children and young people and adults who are parents/carers and may have particular responsibility for safeguarding children
• Group C training is for designated safeguarding leads and managers in organisations employing staff to work with children and families or with responsibility for commissioning or delivering services.

This course is for colleagues that fall into groups A, B and C.