Extra Familial Harm, Contextual Safeguarding and Intersecting Risks

Participants will:

• Explore why many adolescents are drawn towards risk-taking behaviour.
• Develop a clear understand of the many factors which are known to contribute towards adolescent vulnerability and heightened risk.
• Consider the messages arising from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews relating to adolescent risk - particularly that which is extra-familial - and the impact of these messages on practice.
• Explore how unconscious bias impacts on the understanding of risk and safeguarding inequalities when working with adolescents.
• Recognise and respond to the differences and interaction between harm experienced by adolescents including Child Sexual Exploitation, Child Criminal Exploitation.
• Develop best practice in relation to working with adolescents who have been groomed or radicalised.

This is a virtual training course and delegates will be sent an invitation via Microsoft Teams to join the event. Please note that your email address may be visible to other delegates on the Microsoft Teams  invite.