Course outline:

Such is the scale of the mental health crisis that organisations providing services for children and their families, including schools are holding significant numbers of cases where deteriorating mental health becomes a safeguarding risk. 

This webinar explores the range of wellbeing concerns, mental health conditions and identifies where a safeguarding response and risk assessment may be appropriate. 

Training topics will include:

• Unmet emotional wellbeing need to mental health need, organisational and multi-agency thresholds 
• The impact of the pandemic, social media and group dynamics 
• Trauma informed analysis of vulnerability 
• Holding and escalating safeguarding risk  

Learning outcomes:

• Increased knowledge and understanding of organisational and multi-agency thresholds for mental health need 
• Identifying how contextual factors increase vulnerability 
• Consider interventions that support whilst holding safeguarding risk and review effectively to identify when safeguarding escalation is needed 

Audience:

• Designated safeguarding leads 
• Mental health leads 
• Counsellors 
• Pastoral support workers 

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

Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Cost:

• SACPA Member Rate: £90
• SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £45
• Non-member Rate: £180*

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Speaker:

Phill Beisty

Phill is a child psychotherapist in private practise as well as being a magistrate sitting in the child and family court with previous experience of being a safeguarding lead for a corporate mental health company, currently working in a range of settings.

Phill ‘s background as a therapist includes working with vulnerable children within maintained and independent special schools and specialist units schools.  Managing and delivering therapy services to a wide range of students with needs ranging from complex trauma and neurodiverse conditions involving leadership in safeguarding in the context of complex safeguarding and multi-agency arrangements.

Phill has a passion and strong belief that all children and young people should have the best start in life, and that they can access the appropriate therapy and safeguarding services to ensure this can happen.