Course outline

Do you know what contextual safeguarding is?

Do you know how agencies work together to tackle contextual safeguarding and the multi-agency support you could access to keep children, young people and vulnerable adults safe?

Training topics will include:

• Defining contextual safeguarding, globally, nationally, locally and within community contexts
• Review of key contextual safeguarding risks for children, young people and adults
• Traditional safeguarding responses: debating the relevance
• Alternative models of contextual safeguarding response
• Navigating to multi-agency landscape to access support
• The role of prevention, early help, protection, and disruption
• Post webinar networking session for delegates.

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates have an opportunity to review what contextual safeguarding is, and how this applies to a range of contexts
• Delegates will review key contextual safeguarding risks for children and adults enabling outduction programme to be tailored to the needs of young adults
• Delegates will consider the relevance of traditional and alternative models of safeguarding in delivering contextual safeguarding outcomes
• Delegates will have the opportunity to review the multi-agency work to tackle contextual safeguarding concerns and how to link into multi-agency planning at a local level
• Delegates will be able to incorporate elements of this webinar into their safeguarding strategies, policies and processes for prevention, early help, protection and disruption activity.

Audience: This webinar is for all volunteers and workers who work with children, young people and adults with care and support needs who may be vulnerable to contextual safeguarding risks.

Venue: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Cost:

• Member Rate: £60
• Member Rate (Additional Attendee): £20
• Non-member rate: £120*

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Speaker: Nikki Holmes, Founder, Safer Together 

After graduating with a degree in Criminology and Psychology, Nikki began her career as a police officer with West Midlands Police where she enjoyed a variety of different roles. This is where her passion for working with and supporting vulnerable young people began. In 2008, and in response to increases in youth violence in Coventry, she wrote and co-produced with young people “Get My Point” a piece of youth drama which successfully contributed to the reduction in weapon assisted crime. This work saw her presented with a Chief Constable’s Commendation.

However, it was Nikki became an Offender Manager working with some of the most prolific and complex young offenders that she identified that most, if not all of children and young people known to the Criminal Justice System, had a variety of vulnerabilities and unmet need. The recognition of the victim offender overlap resulted in a career change, moving from policing into the field of substance misuse.

As the service manager of a young person’s substance misuse service in Warwickshire, Nikki developed a number of pathways to improve service provision and support for children who were not actively misusing substances themselves, but were nonetheless impacted by substance misuse due to having a parent or sibling with a substance dependency. This work was recognised by the Care Quality Commission as being innovative practice which should be replicated nationally.

Nikki went on to work for the Care Quality Commission in 2017 as a Children’s Services Inspector. In this role, she contributed to and led a number of national reviews, such as Children Looked After and Safeguarding (CLAS) reviews, Joint Targeted Area Inspections (JTAI’s) and Local Area Special Educational Needs and Disability Inspections (LA SENDs). She also lent her expertise in the fields of Safeguarding and SEND to develop a number of thematic reviews such as the Control and Restraint in Children’s Home review which is awaiting publication. She remains a bank inspector for the commission.

In 2020 Nikki founded and launched Safer Together, her own training and consultancy enterprise. Safer Together was commissioned in September by Coventry and Warwickshire CCG and Coventry Local Authority Public Health to lead on a Child Exploitation Project on their behalf. Safer Together recognises the challenges associated with navigating the current complexities of the safeguarding landscape and is on hand to support statutory and non-statutory organisations with any aspect of training and consultancy related to child safeguarding and SEND.