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Child neglect 0-11yrs - recognition, response, and reduction
Aims
The course will enable safeguarding professionals to develop their knowledge and skills in a multi-agency arena to better evaluate risks in the field of neglectful care of children aged 0-11yrs and, to use intervention strategies to safeguard and promote development in the children assisting them to recover and thrive.
Using research and a variety of toolkits participants will learn from assessment, analysis, and intervention methodology how to best support the parents/carers and enable positive changes in the lives of their children.
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The training will meet the continuing developmental needs of multi-agency professionals working with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and who could potentially contribute to assessing, planning, intervening, and evaluating the needs of an unborn child or young person and parenting capacity where there are safeguarding/child protection concerns. This may include staff who complete section 47 enquiries, GPs, mental health staff (adult and CAMHS), child psychologists, child psychotherapists, adult learning disability staff, designated person (including child minders/ foster carers), police, health professionals working in substance misuse services, youth offending team staff, sexual health staff, school nurses, social workers, health visitors, all children’s nurses, midwives, child psychologists, obstetricians, all paediatricians, Designated/Safeguarding leads within a school, college, early years and childcare settings, organisation or agency and those who work with complex cases co-ordinate assessments of children in need.
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- Name the key elements of the CIOS partnership Neglect strategy and their roles and responsibilities within this.
- Understand relevant legislation, guidance, policy, and research that underpin the multi-agency response to child neglect.
- Learn from partnership reviews the key elements that lead to negative and tragic outcomes in cases and how supervision and peer reviews locally can assist in problem-solving neglect cases.
- Recognise the different types of neglect, the importance of timely accurate and detailed recording and reporting and the importance of appropriate information sharing with partners to enable accurate and thorough risk assessments to take place.
- Understand how neglect of children pre-birth through to pre-adolescence may impact long-term on their behaviour, emotional wellbeing, socialisation and overall development.
- Understand attachment theories, the development of the brain in young children and how neglect impacts on children ultimately leading to trauma and a failure to thrice and develop to their full potential.
- Recognise in particular the impact emotional and educational neglect has on the younger child and the consequences of failing to recognise and respond to children, listening to the voice of the child and following the child paramountcy principle.
- Recognise the effects of neglect on children 0-11yrs with disabilities, leading to greater vulnerability and identify strategies to support parents/carers to children are developed and encouraged to develop to the best of their ability.
- Understand transgenerational neglect and the impact on families long-term and how successful response involving development of parent/carer skills can improve the health and well-being of children-taking into account all children in the family.
- Develop knowledge of current available support groups, charities, and partner initiatives available in Cornwall to signpost parents/carers and adolescents to so positive changes can assist the adolescent to develop to their full potential.
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