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  • Leo Dickens  -  Children's Integrated Safeguarding Training Manager
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    Children’s Service, PO Box 25, Riverside, Keynsham, Bristol.BS31 1DN

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Bath and North East Somerset  Local Safeguarding Children Board 

Inter-agency Safeguarding Children Training Programme 2008 – 2009 

Assessment of Emotional Harm       (A Level 3 Course) 

DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

Course Outline

A one-day course that will look at the nature of emotional harm and the various forms this takes. The course will focus on the impact of emotional harm on children and multi-agency assessment of children in these circumstances. Information on current research findings, national and local guidance will also be discussed.

Aims/Objectives

  • To discuss and explore the long-term impact on children of emotional harm.
  • To discuss and explore the various forms that emotional harm may take.
  • To raise awareness of how emotional harm impacts upon children’s day to day life.
  • To promote a multi-agency approach to assessment of and providing services for children in these circumstances.
  • To explore ways of working with families where elements of emotional harm are apparent.

Learning Outcomes – at the end of this course participants will:

  • Understand the nature and impact of emotional harm upon children and their families.
  • Be aware of how this impacts on children’s day to day lives.
  • Understand their own and other agency roles in identifying, protecting and assessing vulnerable children experiencing emotional harm.

Target Staff

This course is designed for staff who provide services for children including those who are looked after or particularly vulnerable i.e. disabled children. Participants should be involved with child protection as part of their work and should have completed the Child Protection Practice and Procedures course prior to attendance.

Trainers

Helen Rayner, Child Psychiatrist and colleague.

Related Common Core of Knowledge and Skills

Effective communication and engagement with children, young people, their families and carers

Sources of support

  • Know  when and how to refer to sources of information, advice or support from different agencies or professionals

Listening and building empathy

  • Understand the role and value of families and carers as partners in supporting children to achieve positive outcomes.

Child and young person development

Understand context

  • Know and recognise the child or young person’s position in a family or caring network, as well as a wider social context, and appreciate the diversity of these networks
  • Understand and take account of the effects of different parenting approaches, backgrounds and routines.

Understand how babies, children and young people develop

  • Recognise that play and recreation- directed by babies, children and young people, not adults – play a major role in helping them understand themselves and the world around them as well as helping them achieve their potential

Observation and judgement

  • Be able to recognise the signs of a possible developmental delay.

Understand how babies, children and young people develop

  • Know that development includes emotional, physical, intellectual, social, moral and character growth, an know that they can all affect one another.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

Personal skills

  • Understand the different forms of abuse and their impact on children’s development

Relate, Recognise and take considered action

  • Make considered judgements about how to act to safeguard and promote a child or young person’s welfare, where appropriate consulting with the child, young person, parent, carer to inform your thinking.
  • Understand what is meant by safeguarding and the different ways in which children and young people can be harmed (including by other children and young people and through the internet).
  • Understand the key role of parents and carers in safeguarding and promoting children and young people’s welfare and involve them accordingly, while recognising factors that can affect parenting and increase the risk of abuse (for example domestic violence).

Communication, recording and reporting

  • Undertake (formal or informal) assessments and be alert to concerns about a child or young person’s safety or welfare, including unexplained changes in behaviour and signs of abuse or neglect.

Multi-agency working

Communication and teamwork

  • Work in a team context, forging and sustaining relationships across agencies and respecting the contribution of others working with children, young people and families.