Improving Assessments in Child Safeguarding

Target Audience:

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

As with all Advanced level courses, completion of Working Together to Safeguard Children is strongly recommended to be completed first.

Aim:

To develop practitioners ability to conduct high quality, holistic safeguarding children assessments

Learning Outcomes, by the end of the course the participants will be able to:

Define what makes a good assessment and identify areas for improvement in their own practice
Accurately assess risk and protective factors
Identify biases and common pitfalls in assessment practice
Produce action plans which effectively reduce risks to children
Challenge families (and where appropriate other professionals) in order to ensure children are better safeguarded
Confidently engage in the Early Support Process