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Missing from Home & Care: A Risk-Sensible Approach – Evening (Zoom)

£270.00 2 hours

Description

Moving from blanket panic to proportionate practice whilst protecting young people, preserving placements, and safeguarding carer livelihoods.

 

When a looked-after child goes missing, a disproportionate response can escalate distress and inadvertently cause placement breakdown. Fully aligned with the 2026 National Minimum Standards and the updated Working Together to Safeguard Children (2026) framework, this course equips UK fostering professionals, safeguarding leads, and carers with evidence-based, risk-sensible protocols.

 

Shift your focus from a “risk-averse culture” of over-reporting to a “risk-sensible” model that balances age-appropriate independence with robust, multi-agency safeguarding.

Key Learning Highlights

  • The Risk-Sensible Paradigm Shift: Master tiered risk assessment tools to replace blanket reporting, supporting ordinary childhood “Normalcy” while maintaining accountability.
  • Standard of Care vs. Safeguarding Allegation: Understand the critical statutory line separating parenting style disagreements from formal LADO allegations, protecting carers from disproportionate investigations.
  • 2026 Financial & Professional Protections: Learn how new statutory rights guarantee foster carers’ fee continuity during missing-related reviews, along with time-limited investigations and independent representation.
  • The “Golden Hour” Protocol: Step-by-step guidance on the decisive first 60 minutes of an absence, including contemporaneous recording and explicit triggers for immediate police escalation.
  • Police Multi-Agency Hubs: Utilise the national 2025 Missing Child Discussion Forms and work effectively with specialist police Missing Persons Units (MPUs).
  • Clinical Independent Return Interviews (IRIs): Reframe statutory return interviews into clinical assessments that map extra-familial risks, interrupt County Lines grooming, and cut repeat missing episodes by 61%.
  • Push and Pull Factors: Explore the psychological drives behind missing behaviour, from unresolved trauma to family ties, peer belonging, and criminal exploitation.

Why Choose This Course?

Missing incidents are complex, high-stress events that require calm, legally sound decision-making. This programme bridges the gap between new statutory requirements and frontline practice, helping your agency build an audit-ready, trauma-informed, and child-centred missing response.

 

Who Should Attend: Foster Carers, Supervising Social Workers, Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs), Designated Safeguarding Leads, and Residential Care Managers.

 

Format: This is a live training session through Zoom. It includes taught sections, small-group work, pair work, and whole-group discussions.

 

Hand-outs & Certificates: Downloadable course notes and certificates of attendance are provided.

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Empowering Safety: Bespoke Safeguarding & Child Protection Training

Why Choose Bespoke Training?

Generic training can leave staff feeling unprepared for the real-life scenarios they face. Our tailored approach ensures the content, delivery method, and case studies are directly relevant to your sector (e.g., education, healthcare, sport, charity, corporate), your local policies, and the specific vulnerabilities and risks present in your community.

Our Specialised Training Pillars

We design engaging, practical, and compliant training across three core areas:

  • For Professionals Working with Children (Child Protection): Focuses on recognising the signs of abuse and neglect, statutory guidance (e.g., Working Together to Safeguard Children), robust reporting procedures, and the creation of a safe, child-focused culture.
  • For Professionals Working with Adults (Adult Safeguarding): Focuses on the principles of the Care Act, understanding different types of harm, promoting wellbeing, Mental Capacity Act (MCA) considerations, and ensuring person-led safeguarding responses.
  • Blended Cohorts (Safeguarding for All Ages): Ideal for organisations whose staff or volunteers interact with both children and adults (e.g., community centres, housing associations, religious organisations). This training highlights the common principles of good practice while clearly delineating the different legal frameworks, signs of harm, and reporting routes for each demographic.

Invest in training that transforms knowledge into action. Equip your team with the confidence and competence to protect those in your care proactively.

Need more time?

We recognise that sometimes groups need more time for discussions and group work. This can mean that a two-hour session is just not long enough to explore the curriculum and engage in question and answer sessions. So we are you offering the opportunity to extend the session by an hour to allow your trainees the chance to explore the curriculum fully!

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