Bexley S.H.I.E.L.D., in partnership with key stakeholders, has commissioned a range of training resources including webinars designed for team discussions or self-study. Please check in regularly as we build our library of webinars
Meet the Bexley Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
Bexley Council has a statutory duty under Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 to effectively manage allegations made against individuals who work with children. Delegates will hear from Bexley’s Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO), Megan Rumball, who is responsible for overseeing and managing allegations made against professionals and volunteers working with children.
This briefing session will help professionals gain a clearer understanding of the LADO role, as well as the policies and procedures that must be followed when an allegation is made against an adult in a position of trust who has contact with children.
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Learning Review Themes Briefing
The purpose of learning reviews of serious child safeguarding cases is to identify improvements to be made to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This 1-hour session will outline Bexley’s serious incidents where a rapid review has been held and, in some cases, an extended Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review.
Session outline
- Serious incident notifications.
- Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, DHR’s & SAR’s
- Learning themes from Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
- Practice changes and resources developed as a result of reviews.
- Next steps and current work plans
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Working Together To Safeguard Children Briefing
This is the statutory guidance for multi-agency working to safeguard children and young people. The guidance was last updated in 2023.
Learning outcomes
- To understand the changes to statutory guidance
- To be clear about statutory regulations for all organisations
- To be clear about he specific requirements for individual organisations
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Think Family Protocol And Guidance Briefing
The development of this protocol and practice guidance was agreed as a next step by both Executives to capture what Bexley means by Think Family and to set out best practice for all partner organisations to respond to. The protocol was first issued in September 2021. A refreshed version (with an updated action plan and strategic priorities) was issued in February 2024.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the purpose of the Think Family Protocol
- Understand Bexley’s Think Family Principles
- Understand the role of all partner agencies working in Bexley
- Know where to find the Think Family checklist for practitioners
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Effective Support For Children And Families Briefing
Bexley’s ‘Effective Support for Children, Young People and Families in Bexley: Shared guidance to help all practitioners working with children, young people, families and carers to provide additional and early help, intensive and specialist support’ document was refreshed in 2024 and reissued in July 2024.
Learning outcomes:
- Be clear about the content of the Effective Support document
- Know how to apply the document to your everyday practice
- Be familiar with the directory of services
- Be clear about the role of MASH
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Briefing on Suspected Bruising Protocol for Non-Independently Mobile Infants and Children
This webcast features Dr Jennifer Liddington (Adult & Children’s Safeguarding GP Lead, NHS Integrated Care Board) and is designed to ensure staff understand:
- When and how the protocol should be used
- Factors that should be considered when making an assessment
- Actions that need to be taken to ensure the safety of non- mobile children
Suspected Bruising Protocol Webinar
Click here for the Suspected Bruising Protocol presentation for the links referred to in the webinar.
Analysis and professional curiosity in reference to Local Child Sexual Abuse Review
This webcast has been commissioned by the Tri-Borough Partnership (Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham).
Webcast outline:
- Exploring what is Professional curiosity
- Understanding the role of systems theory and trauma-informed practice approaches when working with children and young people
- Examine the differences and similarities between child sexual abuse, harmful sexual behaviours and child sexual exploitation
- Examining the role of case recordings to help understand a child’s situation
- Explore relevant tools.
Analysis and professional curiosity webinar
Raising Awareness of Parental Mental Health
This webcast has been commissioned by the Tri-Borough Partnership (Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham).
Webcast outline:
- Increasing understanding of mental health and prevalence of parental mental concerns
- Exploring signs and symptoms associated with most common types of mental health issues affecting parents during lockdown
- How to spot indicators of parental mental distress particularly when communicating remotely
- Guidance on how to have conversations with parents where there are potential risks of mental health difficulties
- Signposting to information and safeguarding resources within and outside the organisation
Raising Awareness of Parental mental health webinar
