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Safer Care & Delegated Authority – Advanced (Zoom)

From: £370.00 3 hours

Description

Navigate risk with confidence - protecting children, supporting families, and empowering foster carers.

 

Fostering is a vital professional role that requires a delicate balance: keeping vulnerable children safe while ensuring they enjoy a normal, warm, and fulfilling family life. Grounded in current UK fostering regulations and modern reforms, this practical training course equips foster carers and social care professionals to transition from “risk-averse” blanket rules to “risk-sensible,” child-centred care.

 

Participants will learn how to build robust, individualised Safer Caring Plans and navigate the Delegated Authority framework, ensuring daily decisions are transparent, legally sound, and focused on the child’s best interests.

Key Learning Highlights

  • Risk-Sensible vs. Risk-Averse Practice: Learn how to balance day-to-day risks thoughtfully so children can experience everyday activities like sleepovers and school trips without compromising safety.
  • Master Delegated Authority: Understand the clear 3-level decision framework to know exactly when you can decide independently, when to consult, and when formal consent is required.
  • Build Effective Safer Caring Plans: Develop living, collaborative plans that protect the child, safeguard your own family, and uphold physical, emotional, and digital boundaries.
  • Navigate Allegations & Safeguarding: Explore why allegations occur from a trauma-informed, child-centred perspective, and how clear practice and contemporaneous record-keeping serve as your personal shield.
  • Manage Modern Digital Risks: Address contemporary online safety challenges, including parental controls, social media privacy, grooming trends, and AI-generated content.

Why Choose This Course?

Designed specifically for the team around the child, this session delivers actionable frameworks, including a 7-Question Risk Strategy to remove decision-making delays, prevent placement breakdowns, and cultivate a secure base where children can thrive.

 

Who Should Attend: Foster Carers, Adopters, Supervising Social Workers, Children’s Social Workers, and Fostering Service Managers.

 

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

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

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Advanced Training

This option is aimed at an audience with prior knowledge of the subject and isn’t suitable for.  Those that are new to the subject would be better with our standard course.

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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