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Multi- Agency Neglect Deep Dive 29/4/26: Whole Family Working and Neglect

Whole Family Working and Neglect

Course Overview

Whole Family Working and Neglect is a focused 2-hour online training course designed for professionals working with children, young people, and families. Delivered live via Microsoft Teams, the session explores how adopting a whole family approach can strengthen the identification, assessment, and response to neglect.

It also reflects updated expectations contained within Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 as appropriate and local safeguarding practice, process and policies in Cornwall.

Course Description

Neglect is often shaped by family dynamics, parental capacity and wider environmental factors.

This interactive session supports professionals to consider a whole family approach to neglect, , strengthening multi-agency collaboration, information sharing and understanding of the child’s lived experience.

Practitioners will explore how factors such as parental mental health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, poverty and trauma contribute to cumulative harm over time.

Participants will consider how neglect can present differently for children within the same family and the importance of seeing and hearing each child individually. The session emphasises avoiding drift and delay, recognising disguised compliance and maintaining a clear focus on outcomes for children.

Grounded in statutory guidance and Cornwall’s safeguarding arrangements, the course reinforces effective multi-agency working, purposeful family engagement, and confident, evidence-based decision-making.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Define whole family working and understand its importance in identifying and responding to neglect.
• Recognise how family dynamics, parental capacity, and environmental factors contribute to neglect and cumulative harm over time.
• Understand how neglect may present differently for children within the same family, ensuring each child’s voice and lived experience is considered.
• Identify key risk factors within the family system, including domestic abuse, parental mental health, substance misuse, and socio-economic pressures.
• Apply a child-centred approach within whole family work, maintaining a clear focus on outcomes and avoiding drift or delay, as emphasised in Working Together 2026.
• Work effectively with families through a balance of support and challenge, recognising and responding to disguised compliance.
• Demonstrate effective multi-agency working, including timely and proportionate information sharing, in line with updated national expectations.

Cancellation Charge

Please note that with effect from 1^st November we will be introducing a cancellation charge of £75. This will apply to cancellations that take place 48hours or less before the start of the course or if you book a place but do not attend. If you are unable to use your place you can move to an alternative date or arrange for someone else to attend in your place but please email us at OSCPtraining@cornwall.gov.uk

to let us know.

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