LEEDS SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD

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LEEDS SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD

• Training Calendar
• Autumn 2009
• (September December)

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• LSCB Training Courses
• Detailed below are the courses provided through
  the LSCB. If you wish to attend any of the
• courses please complete the application form at
  the end of this booklet (also available on the
• website www.leedslscb.org.uk) and return it to
  the Training and Development Officer (address
• on form)
• We do not acknowledge applications on receipt,
  rather we will contact you approximately
• one month before the course is due to run to
  inform you if you have been successful of a
• place or not.
• If you would like further details about any of
  the courses please contact Karen Shinn, the
• Training and Development Officer (0113 3952121 or
  karen.shinn_at_leeds.gov.uk)
• A copy of our Non-Attendance Policy is available
  at the end of this document. We will invoice
• organisations 50 is a participant fails to
  attend without apologies or a good reason.
• Please note that courses are only available to
  people who either work or volunteer within the
  city

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• Working Together to Safeguard Children Level 2B
• This is a course for staff and volunteers with a
  particular responsibility for safeguarding
  children,
• such as designated or named professionals who may
  be undertaking s47 enquiries or working with
• complex cases, including fabricated and induced
  illness.
• This is a city-wide two day multi-agency course.
  Participants must have completed Level 1B through
  
• the LSCB before they can attend this training.
• Lead Trainer Karen Shinn
• Level 3 Training
• These courses offer specialist training in a wide
  range of topics. Courses are devised and
  delivered
• as a result of new needs being identified and new
  courses coming on line.
• Participants must have completed Level 1A either
  through their own agency or the LSCB before they
• can attend this training.
• Child Protection and Children With Disabilities
• This course explains why and how disabled
  children are vulnerable to abuse, describes how
  attitudes to
• disability may affect recognition and responses
  to abuse, and provides possible strategies for
  responding to
• possible cases of child abuse.
• Lead Trainer Carolyn Eyre

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• Forced Marriage and the Links with Child
  Protection
• This course describes the issues facing children
  and young people at risk of forced marriage,
  identifies
• signs and indicators of children and young people
  at risk of forced marriage, and the links between
  this and
• child abuse, as well as identifying the
  responsibilities for providing services and
  responding to children and
• young people identified at risk of forced
  marriage. Suitable for staff and volunteers
  working with children
• and young people who have been forced into
  marriage or are at risk of being forced into
  marriage.
• Lead Trainer Raminder Aujla
• ISA (Independent Safeguarding Authority) Briefing
  Session
• A briefing session providing an overview of how
  the Independent Safeguarding Authority and the
  Vetting
• and Barring Scheme will impact both workers and
  organisations. This is appropriate for anyone
  with
• responsibility for the recruitment of staff, paid
  and volunteers, as well as organisation managers.
• Lead Trainer Karen Shinn
• Never Shake A Baby
• Suitable for those working with parents and
  carers of babies and young children in order to
  equip
• them with the knowledge and skills to teach about
  Shaken Baby Syndrome.
• This training course deals very directly with
  grief, loss and the death of a child using
  parental and
• family personal experiences. If any manager feels
  that this training may not be appropriate for a

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• LSCB Training Dates Autumn 2009

Please note that these dates and/or venues may be
subject to change or additional courses added
should demand require. Any changes or new dates
will be advertised via flyers which will be sent
via the normal routes, as well as this calendar
being updated on our website. Additional 1B dates
will be publicised by flyer shortly. Where there
is either no information in a box, or To Be
Confirmed / TBC, again this information will be
updated via flyers.
September
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October
November
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December
The 2010 LSCB Training Calendar will be published
late autumn 2009
Further information about each course and
detailed learning outcomes can be obtained from
Karen Shinn on 0113 3952121 or karen.shinn_at_leeds.g
ov.uk
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For those considering the FGM Awareness
coursePrevalence/types of Female Genital
Mutilation by Country

• Staff working with parents or children can use
  the following table to ascertain whether FGM is
  an issue in the communities or populations within
  their locality and so decide whether there is a
  need for attendance at the FGM half day training.

(Adapted from WHO 2001, Toubia 1999)
NB Although no firm research exists to reveal the
prevalence or types of FGM performed (as above),
recent evidence, personal and professional
experience reveals that some communities in Asia
also traditionally practice FGM. e.g. Jordan,
Oman, the Palestinian Territories (Gaza) and some
Kurdish communities in Iraq. In Iraq FGM is often
referred to as Sunnet. FGM is also reported to be
practiced by some groups in India, Pakistan,
Indonesia and Malaysia (UNICEF 2005, WHO 2006b,
Momoh 2006 Personal Communication, FORWARD 2006).
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Leeds Safeguarding Children Board Judith Dodd,
Chair LSCB, C/O Childrens Services 6th Floor
East Merrion House 110 Merrion Centre Leeds, LS2
8DT
Non-attendance on Training Courses Charging
Policy Due to the popularity of the LSCB
training courses, many of our courses are often
fully booked with a reserve list, however we are
increasingly finding that people are booking
places and then not attending without prior
notice. This is not allowing us the opportunity
to offer such places to other people. As a
result of this a decision has been made that from
1st September 2007 charges will be made for
non-attendance on all Leeds Safeguarding Children
Board Multi Agency Training Courses unless the
place is cancelled at least 5 working days before
the course date. In the absence of receipt of a
cancellation or notification of sickness /
unavoidable absence at short notice an invoice
for 50 will be sent by Leeds Safeguarding
Children Board to the agency. Cancellation of
places or notification due to sickness /
unavoidable absence at short notice should be
made to Karen Shinn, Training and Development
Officer on 0113 3952121 or karen.shinn_at_leeds.gov.u
k We hope that you will appreciate that our
motive is to ensure that as many people as
possible are given the opportunities to attend
our courses. Yours Karen Shinn Training and
Development Officer, Leeds Safeguarding Children
Board
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Leeds Safeguarding Children BoardTraining
Application
The Course Course Title
.... Date of
Course . Venue .
. Your Details Name
.. Job Title . Organisation
.. Work Address
....
.. Phone
Number .. E-mai
l .. Any
details we should know regarding your
participation in the course (eg mobility
difficulties, large print hand outs, BSL
interpretation etc) Applicants
Signature Managerial
Support As the applicants Line Manager I support
their application for this course, and release
them to attend. I will also discuss this training
and their learning within supervision. Managers
Signature Telephone
Number .. Please
return this form to Training Development
Officer, LSCB, 6th Floor East, Merrion House,
110 Merrion Centre, Leeds, LS2 8DT Please note
that failure to attend without prior notification
due to unavoidable absence will result in your
organisation being invoiced 50 to cover
administrative costs.