Safeguarding

Monday 17 November

Safeguarding Awareness Week launch event: Protecting adults from exploitation 

Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm 

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall, Reception room and meeting room 2 

Description: 

• For organisations and professionals who've an opportunity to identify and tackle exploitation in communities.
• Highlight the importance of exploitation prevention and support, for people at all stages of life, from childhood through to older adults.
• Look at Barnsley’s new Exploitation Strategy and what it means for services.
• Expert speaker that has been leading a specialist service in Adult Social Care to support people who have experienced, and are experiencing, exploitation.

How to book: By invitation or email SABtraining@barnsley.gov.uk to express your interest.

Tuesday 18 November

Prioritising child sexual abuse roadshow

Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm 

Venue: The Civic, Hanson Street, Barnsley 

Description: An engaging day of talks and workshops exploring child sexual abuse, in partnership with the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse. This roadshow event is designed to help you and your colleagues identify and respond to child sexual abuse and confidently support children and families. Throughout the day you will be signposted to helpful advice and guidance to support you in giving victims, survivors and families affected by child sexual abuse the support they need. There will be a number of keynote speakers who are expert in their field.

How to book: Book prioritising child sexual abuse roadshow on POD. 

Wednesday 19 November

Children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour: An introduction

Time: 10am to 12:30pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams 

Description: To help increase practitioners’ understanding and confidence identifying, understanding and initial responses to harmful sexual behaviour displayed by children and young people.

How to book: Book an introduction to children and young people who displayed harmful sexual behaviour through POD.

Transitional safeguarding masterclass

Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams 

Description: This 3 hour interactive masterclass will:

• clarify what transitional safeguarding is, and is not
• explore the evidence base and six key principles
• share learning from local areas innovating in this space
• support participants to consider how this approach could be applied

How to book: Book a place through Ticket Tailor.

Signs of safety 2 day briefing

Time: 9:30am to 4.30pm

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall 

Description: Only available to social workers and early help professionals. 

Day 1 - Wednesday 19 November 

Day 2 - Thursday 20 November

The two days will give you an overview of the basics of signs of safety to equip you to use in your day-to-day practice. You'll get the opportunity to learn about the main principles of signs of safety, language used, assessment work, learn about danger statements and safety goals, scaling, as well as learn about tools available to support safety planning with children and families.

How to book: Book signs and safety 2 day briefing through POD. 

Thursday 20 November

Contextual safeguarding along a lifespan 

Time: 10am to 1pm 

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall, reception room 

Description: BSAFE and Community Safety will be delivering a workshop on the lifespan of safeguarding. This will be looking specifically at child exploitation and transitions from children’s to adults. Looking at opportunities for intervention along the lifespan for children and adults, who are exploited. 

How to book: Book contextual safeguarding along a lifespan through POD. 

Signs and indicators of domestic abuse

Time: 10am to 3:30pm 

Venue: Online 

Description: Learn about what constitutes domestic abuse, the signs, indicators and effects, how to refer to specialist services in Sheffield and how those specialist services (including IDAS) can help. 

How to book: Book a place through IDAS for signs and indicators of domestic abuse training. 

Friday 21 November 

Graded care profile 2

Time: 9:30am to 1pm 

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall 

Description: A key priority for the implementation of Barnsley’s Safeguarding Children Partnership's Neglect Strategy is for workers in all services in Barnsley to be able to recognise neglect earlier and intervene most effectively. To support this priority Barnsley has purchased the graded care profile 2 licence from the NSPCC.

How to book: Book graded care profile 2 through POD. 

All week - 17 to 21 November

IDAS on demand courses and webinars

Time: Various

Venue: Various

Description: A variety of on demand courses and webinars on safeguarding topics for you to access whenever it's suitable for you.  

How to book: View IDAS online training courses.  

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Webinars

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue's prevention work over the last 15 years has helped to reduce accidental house fires to historically low levels, but there has been a slight increase in fatal incidents. 

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue are hosting a number of events during the week to support agencies to recognise some of the commonly occurring risks and the support that may be available.

View more information and book onto the workshops.

Monday 24 November 

Mental Capacity Act - including supported and substituted decision making 

Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams 

Description: This is a workshop introducing people to the Mental Capacity Act and the requirements of a mental capacity assessment and best interest decision.

How to book: Book Mental Capacity Act through POD. 

Tuesday 25 November 

Safeguarding adults and homelessness conference 

Time: 9:30am to 4pm 

Venue: Niagra Conference Centre 

Description: 

This conference will look at learning from previous safeguarding adults reviews and how these can be implemented into practice. We've arranged 3 speakers for this conference, these are: 

• Professor Michael Preston-Shoot Michael is a former Independent Chair of Luton Safeguarding Adults Board and has conducted multiple safeguarding adult reviews, including a national review of safeguarding adult reviews between April 2019 and March 2023. 

• Mike Ward, from Alcohol Change UK - Mike Ward is a Senior Consultant at Alcohol Change UK. He has worked in alcohol and drug use since the 1982. He has undertaken safeguarding adult reviews and was a key driver behind the Blue Light project. 

• Ellie Atkins - Ellie Atkins, manages a successful social work team in Manchester specifically supporting people who are homeless.

How to book: Email: adult.protection.training@sheffield.gov.uk

Wednesday 26 November 

Good practice when issues with someone's mental capacity may be disguised

Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm 

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall, meeting room 11

Description: This workshop will be for workers with a good understanding of mental capacity and may work with individuals where people may initially appear that they have the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves. This workshop will consider case studies and good practice when working with people where issues with their mental capacity were disguised. The event will provide a forum for workers to discuss challenging cases, practical dilemmas and discuss good practice when working alongside other agencies. 

How to book: Email SABtraining@Barnsley.gov.uk and provide details of your role and the organisation.

Introduction to cuckooing

Time: 2pm to 3pm 

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall, meeting room 11

Description: Understand what it is, who is more vulnerable to it, help to support people who are concerned someone is being cuckooed. Training delivered by South Yorkshire Police.

How to book: Email SABtraining@barnsley.gov.uk

Thursday 27 November 

Basic safeguarding adults 

Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm 

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall, meeting room 11

Description: This course is intended for anyone working at Level A in Barnsley Safeguarding Adults Board Learning Strategy, however, it could be useful for anyone working with adults with care and support needs across Barnsley who is interested in understanding how to identify possible abuse and neglect, and what action they can take to report any concerns that they may have.

How to book: Book basic safeguarding adults through POD.