Professional Curiosity & Thinking Family

Who should attend? Staff and volunteers who have specialist child protection responsibilities and/or involvement in multiagency safeguarding assessment, planning and responses.

Why should they attend? A loss of focus on the child and a lack of curiosity about lived experience is frequently raised in Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and can lead to adverse outcomes for children. The training will enable participants to develop their professional curiosity skillset and keep children at the centre of practice.

What are the learning objectives? By the end of the course, delegates will:

• Develop understanding of the importance of professional curiosity and learn from reviews as to what can happen when practitioners lack curiosity.
• Develop knowledge of the common barriers to being professional curious and increase confidence to overcome these.
• Develop confidence in working with non-verbal children, children with additional needs and children who give ‘limited responses’ and build a skillset of creative ways to explore and understand their voices.
• Develop knowledge of resources and direct work tools to support interventions with children.
• Improve confidence in working with resistant parents/carers and build upon the skillset of respectful challenge.
• Understand the role of non-resident parents and the importance of engagement.
• Understand the need to adopt a think family approach and identify how to do this in practice.

How is the course delivered? This free 2 hour course is delivered by an LSCP trainer and is an online only event.