Neglect Toolkit & Strategy

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? Learning from local and national reviews highlights repeated challenges in how the safeguarding system identifies and responds to neglect.  The neglect strategy and toolkit aims to improve our responses to children in Lambeth who are experiencing or at risk of all forms of neglect. 

What are the learning objectives?

By the end of the course, delegates will:

• Develop knowledge of the definition of neglect and types of neglect.
• Develop knowledge on how to spot the signs and indicators of neglect.
• Develop skills to assess and report neglect, using the neglect toolkit.
• Develop knowledge of how to respond, using the continuum of need thresholds.
• Develop knowledge of the common challenges and practice issues to identifying and responding to neglect, and the skills to overcome these.
• Develop confidence in using the Neglect Toolkit and embedding into practice.

How is the course delivered? This free half-day course is delivered by an LSCP trainer. Both in-person and online options are available.