Course outline 

This webinar provides a brief introduction to trusted models of supervision which are suitable to draw upon when providing in-house peer supervision for colleagues and volunteers working in roles with particular safeguarding and pastoral support responsibilities.

This webinar enables delegates to engage in reflective practice in relation to the suitability of models, ethical and practical considerations around case study scenarios.

Unable to attend? A post webinar recording will be available for purchase.

Formal supervision training is also available on a consultancy basis delivered face to face.

Training Topics will include: 

• Why is supervision important
• Models and perspectives on supervision
• To peer supervise or not: ethics and practicalities
• Where to next?

Learning outcomes:

• have increased knowledge and understanding about the importance of supervision and links to safer organisations practice
• review different models of safeguarding supervision and different perspectives in approach to supervision
• work together to develop reflective discussion on the ethical and practical considerations of planning and delivering peer supervision
• have the opportunity to reflect on the suitability of particular models and approaches for their organisational needs.

Audience: 

Venue: Zoom (online) – webinar

Cost:

• Member Rate: £65
• Additional Full Member Fee: £30
• Non-member Rate: £130*

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Speaker:

Michael Sheath (CQSW, MA (Social Work)

Michael Sheath qualified as a Social Worker and Probation Officer in 1988, he has a Master of Arts in Social Work, and a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work. He spent ten years working in the Probation Service in community and custodial settings, prior to joining The Lucy Faithfull Foundation in 1997.

During his 25 year tenure at LFF, Michael prepared some hundreds of ‘Expert Witness’ reports for Family Court proceedings, and delivered hundreds of days training to social workers, probation officers, and police officers. He was involved in ‘whole community’ safeguarding assessments in a number of British Overseas Territories, including Pitcairn, and the Falkland Islands.

Michael has acted as ‘Staff Trainer’ for Europol’s ‘COSEC’ course for fifteen years, a 10 day course which trains police and prosecutors to investigate online sexual offences against children. He is also responsible for the well being of students and trainers on the programme, and has delivered similar staff support training to civilian analysts in the Metropolitan Police.

Michael sits on the Football Association’s Safeguarding Review Panel, a quasi judicial role, which is the final arbiter of decisions relating to fitness to engage in football. He is contracted to work with Europol, Cepol (The European Union police training centre, in Budapest), and INHOPE, which manages the activities of Hotlines dealing with indecent content on the Internet.

He is the author of a play, now a book, ‘Crossing the Line’, which deals with issues relating to secondary harms and vicarious trauma in investigations related to the downloading of child sexual exploitation material.