Monday 18 November

Contextual Safeguarding

Time: 8.45am to 10am

Venue: Gooseacre Primary Academy

Description: We'll be discussing contextual safeguarding, what this means, what are the risks and how you can keep your children safe.

How to book: Drop in

Predatory marriage

Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm

Description: Professional curiosity is where a practitioner proactively recognises and asks questions to try to understand what is happening within a particular institution, family or for an individual, rather than making assumptions or taking a single source of information and accepting at face value.

To achieve safer cultures and communities, practitioners and members of the community should be professionally curious. This involves looking, listening, asking direct questions and reflecting on all of the information received. We need to be recognising signs that harm could be occurring, asking questions to learn more about what's happening and talking to others within and outside of our organisational context, where necessary, to follow-up concerns.

How to book: please email sab@york.gov.uk stating the day and workshop title. Please provide your name, organisation, job role (if applicable) and contact email. We'll then send you a teams link for the workshop.

Tuesday 19 November

Coercive control and gas lighting

Time: 10am to 12pm

Venue: Salvation Army, Goldthorpe

Description: We'll be looking at coercive control and gas lighting, what these mean and what support is available.

How to book: Drop in

Wednesday 20 November

Contextual safeguarding online seminar for parents

Time: 4.30pm to 5.30pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Description:

This seminar is open to parents or carers living in Barnsley only.

Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. It recognises that the different relationships that young people form in their neighbourhoods, schools and online can make them vulnerable. Parents and carers have little influence over these contexts, and young people’s experiences outside of the family home can affect parent-child relationships.

By the end of the seminar participants will have:

• An understanding of what we mean by ‘contextual safeguarding’
• Discussed how children and young people can be significantly harmed outside the family home
• Increased confidence to identify children and young people who present as potentially being vulnerable through the company they keep or the areas they frequent.
• An awareness of the role of the council in adopting and promoting a Contextual Safeguarding approach to keep young people safe in Barnsley.

A link will be sent to you nearer the time so you can access the seminar via Microsoft Teams.

If you would like any more information about this seminar please email parentsupport@barnsley.gov.uk.

How to book: Book your place for the contextual safeguarding online seminar for parents on Eventbrite.

Thursday 21 November

Contextual safeguarding

Time: 9am to 10.30am

Venue: The Hill Primary School

Description: We'll be discussing discussing contextual safeguarding, what this means, what the risks are and how you can keep your children safe

How to book: Drop in

Online safety 

Time: 1pm to 3pm 

Venue: Central Family Hub and Penistone Family Hub 

Description: In our Play and Stay this week we will be looking at online safety - the risks, parental controls and how to keep your children safe online from a young age.

How to book: Drop in

All week 

Market stalls

Venue: Barnsley market 

Description:  As part of Safeguarding Awareness Week, we'll be holding up to 8 stalls all day Monday to Friday.  Different organisations will be giving out resources and information. All part of our mission to raise awareness around Safeguarding adults & children.

Safeguarding displays at our family hubs and nurseries

Venue: Barnsley's family hubs

Description: There are displays available all week and to be discussion points in stay and play, afterschool club and nursery sessions throughout the safeguarding week.  

Central Family Hub

• Monday 18 November - domestic abuse
• Tuesday 19 November - online harm
• Wednesday 20 November - bullying
• Thursday 21 November - neglect - everyone's business
• Friday 22 November - county lines

Dearne Family Hub

• Thursday 21 November, 1pm to 3pm - online safety, the risks, parental controls and how to keep your children safe online from a young age.

North Family Hub (Athersley)

• Monday 18 November - county lines
• Tuesday 19 November - bullying
• Wednesday 20 November - online harms
• Thursday 21 November - domestic violence
• Friday 22 November - neglect - everyone's business

North East Family Hub (Grimethorpe)

• Monday 18 November - online harms
• Tuesday 19 November - domestic violence
• Wednesday 20 November - neglect - everyone's business
• Thursday 21 November - bullying
• Friday 22 November - county lines

Penistone Family Hub

• Monday 18 November - neglect - everyone's business
• Tuesday 19 November - online harm
• Wednesday 20 November - county lines
• Thursday 21 November - bullying
• Friday 22 November - domestic abuse

South Family Hub

• Monday 18 November - after school club bullying awareness
• Wednesday 20 November - online harm
• Thursday 21 November - domestic violence
• Friday 22 November - stay and play parental supervision

Darfield Nursery

• Tuesday 19 November - coffee morning  - parental supervision

Monday 18 November 

Self neglect and unpaid carers 

Time: 1pm to 4pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Description: This workshop will consider learning from safeguarding adult reviews where people were reliant on the care of family and unpaid carers, but refused support and help that was necessary for their wellbeing and the wellbeing of the carer. The workshop will consider the signs and risks associated with such behaviour. It will also highlight the good practice that has been recommended through the reviews.  

How to book: email sabtraining@barnsley.gov.uk

Modern slavery and human trafficking

Time: 11am to 12pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Description: Learn what modern slavery is, what the different types are, and how to spot the signs. What makes a person more at risk and how we can help protect them. How does cuckooing link into county lines and what can we do to help tackling this type of criminality.

This online seminar is suitable for all staff and carers working with children and young people and adults who are involved in multi-agency partnerships.

To be delivered by DS Simcock, SYP.

How to book: Book via POD

Predatory marriage

Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm

Description: Professional curiosity is where a practitioner proactively recognises and asks questions to try to understand what is happening within a particular institution, family or for an individual, rather than making assumptions or taking a single source of information and accepting at face value.
To achieve safer cultures and communities, practitioners and members of the community should be professionally curious. This involves looking, listening, asking direct questions and reflecting on all of the information received. We need to be recognising signs that harm could be occurring, asking questions to learn more about what's happening and talking to others within and outside of our organisational context, where necessary, to follow-up concerns.

How to book: please email: sab@york.gov.uk stating the day and workshop title. Please provide your name, organisation, job role (if applicable) and contact email. We'll then send you a teams link for the workshop.

Tuesday 19 November 

Designated safeguarding lead forum

Time: 3pm to 5pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Description: A forum where DSL’s in educational settings and multi-agency settings are invited to share knowledge and good practice and to be given updates on the safeguarding children landscape in Barnsley.

Understanding child/adolescent to parent abuse

Time: 10am to 1pm 

Venue: Priory Centre, Barnsley

Description:

• Signs and indicators of child to parent abuse
• How professionals can support the family
• Knowledge of local service

How to book: Book your place on the IDAS website

Hidden men training 

Time: 10.30am to 12pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams 

Description: This training addresses the ‘myth of the invisible man’ report.  It covers why men are sometimes excluded from safeguarding enquiries and the skills we need to engage them. 

How to book: book your place on POD for hidden men training.

Wednesday 20 November

Trauma informed practice

Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm

Description: This workshop looks at:

• What is trauma and its impact?
• What is trauma informed care?
• Who are boundaries for and why do we need them?
• How working with trauma can impact staff and organisations.
• Looking after ourselves and others.

How to book: please email: sab@york.gov.uk stating the day and workshop title. Please provide your name, organisation, job role (if applicable) and contact email. We'll then send you a teams link for the workshop.

Understanding neglect and the impact on children and young people

Time: 9.30am to 3.30pm 

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall, Reception Rooms

Description: The focus of this conference is to increase confidence in the identification of neglect, the safeguarding of children and young people who have been neglected and to provide an understanding of the long-term impact of neglect.

How to book: Book via POD

Thursday 21 November

Safeguarding - the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Time: 12pm to 1pm

Description: Find out more about the work of the Department for Work and Pensions in safeguarding adults. You'll find out how they're in a unique position to support and identify adults at risk of harm and abuse through the advanced customer support role and job centres as safe places for victims of domestic abuse.

How to book: please email: sab@york.gov.uk stating the day and workshop title. Please provide your name, organisation, job role (if applicable) and contact email. We'll then send you a teams link for the workshop.

Decision support guidance and raising safeguarding concerns

Time: 1.30pm to 4.30pm 

Venue: Reception Room, Barnsley Town Hall

Description: The workshop will use Barnsley Safeguarding Adults Board's Decision Support Guidance and apply it to real life scenarios that are faced by workers and managers in residential, nursing and home care when identifying and supporting people through abuse and neglect.

How to book: Email: sabtraining@barnsley.gov.uk

What reviews have told us about practice - how does it feel to be on the frontline? 

Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm

Venue: Reception Room, Barnsley Town Hall

Description: Ideal for frontline workers in health, social care, domestic abuse, substance and alcohol use and suicide. It will look at themes in learning from reviews where adults and children have died or been seriously harmed. This is as a result of abuse, neglect, suicide, related to domestic abuse or related to alcohol and substance misuse. It will also give workers a chance to reflect on the challenges that they face in applying lessons into practice and what actions are important to change this.

How to book: Email: sabtraining@barnsley.gov.uk

Was not brought: safeguarding children and vulnerable adults who are not brought to health appointments

Time: 11am to 12pm

Venue: Microsoft Teams 

Description:  This is a multi-agency session open to all professionals organised by SWYT. This session is for those wanting to understand: what ‘was not brought’ means. When adults and children not being brought to health appointments becomes a safeguarding concern. Recognise that adults and children not being brought to appointments can be an indicator of neglect. Support the use of the ‘was not brought’ terminology rather that ‘did not attend’ where appropriate.

How to book: Email: SafeguardingTeam@swyt.nhs.uk

Forced marriage, female genital mutilation and honour based abuse

Time: 10.30am to 12pm 

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Description: To raise your awareness of these practices within our local and national communities by using examples of live case studies.  To be delivered by Suzanne Jackson M.B.E. of SYP.

How to book: Book via POD

Designated Safeguarding Lead

Time: 9am to 3pm

Venue: Room 14, Barnsley Town Hall

Description:

• Give clarity around what safeguarding arrangements should be in place to keep children safe
• To understand what to do if safeguarding concerns are raised and how to support staff to recognise these.
• Have the opportunity to reflect on current practice.                                          

How to book: Book via POD

Friday 22 November 

Cyber crime, scams, online gaming and exploitation 

Time: 10am to 1pm

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall, Reception Rooms

Description:  This session will be held by fraud protect officer's Andy Foster and Charlotte Platts, Colette Oxtoby, Training & Engagement Manager. Fraud is known as the ‘secret crime’ and only a third of victims report fraud. This is mainly due because the victims, especially elderly and vulnerable victims, often having feelings of shame, embarrassment and guilt. Fraud is the most commonly experienced crime in the UK, affecting UK society economically and socially. It accounts for over 40% of crime in England and Wales. Colette Oxtoby of Ygam, Training & Engagement Manager for Education, will lead a 1-hour awareness session covering various topics such as gaming and gambling-related harms, advertising, mental health and wellbeing, cryptocurrency, long-term impact, signposting, and more.

How to book: Email: sabtraining@barnsley.gov.uk

Children’s social work development forum

Time: 9am to 12.30pm

Venue: Priory Centre, Barnsley

Description: Service updates provided plus a guest speaker from the Centre Of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse.

The impact of domestic abuse on children and adults

Time: 9.30am to 3pm

Venue: Shaw Lane Sports Ground, Barnsley

Description: The masterclass will address:

• The impact of trauma on children, young people and adults
• Domestic abuse and trauma bonds
• The sense behind the seemingly ‘illogical’ behaviour of survivors of domestic abuse
• The cyclic nature of trauma
• Working with survivors of domestic abuse

How to book: Book via POD

All week 

Waythrough (Barnsley recovery steps/SPACE)

Time: 9am to 5pm

Venue: Burleigh court

Description: We're supporting the market event at all week other than Wednesday morning. We'll be promoting the all ages service.

We're also having an internal event to promote various policies and pathways to staff.

Monday is focused on neglect – promoting the graded care profile and encouraging staff to access training for this. We have also created a home visit checklist and a safety plan for anyone who uses substances and lives with children. We will encourage staff to carry out home visits on any households known to include children.

Tuesday is promoting the self neglect and hoarding policies and toolkits and encouraging staff to carry out home visits and make use of the assessment.

Wednesday is promotion of mate crime, sharing resources around this and encouraging staff to speak to clients about their home life and social circles and promoting safe spaces.

Thursday is domestic abuse with information available about services we can sign post to. There will also be guidance on DASH forms and how to complete these.

Friday is looking at needs assessments and social prescribing – looking at what other support we can offer clients and making sure staff are aware of the services available and how to access these.

Safer South Yorkshire Referral Training - SYFR

Time: Anytime via the link below

Venue: Microsoft Teams 

Description: As part of our continued support for Safeguarding Awareness Week, SYFR are again this year offering a number of open sessions of our Safer South Yorkshire Referral Training delivered via Microsoft Teams for any current and potential referral partners. 

How to book: SYFR Fire Safety Awareness Know the Risks training.

Market stalls

Venue: Barnsley market 

Description:  As part of Safeguarding Awareness Week, we'll be holding up to 8 stalls all day Monday to Friday.  Different organisations will be giving out resources, information and advice to the public. All part of our mission to make the public more informed around Safeguarding adults & children.

To book a stall please email safeguardingadultsservice@barnsley.gov.uk