Young People Going Missing
One in ten young people and children go missing, usually multiple times, twenty times the average young person not in care, and they often experience significant harm.
To keep young people safe, agencies and professionals need to be proactive to help prevent missing episodes. Reporting them as missing to the police does not resolve the reasons or reduce the recurrence as to why they were not where they were expected to be.
Every effort should be made to prevent a young person or child from going missing in the first place and this course aims to reduce the likelihood of these events occurring, whilst equipping you with the knowledge and skills to support young people in returning should these unfortunate circumstances occur.
Our Young People Going Missing training analyses the levels of intervention model, alongside exploring the use of a contextual safeguarding approach. We also consider the dynamic risks involved to work with local agencies, and the young person’s family and carers, about what needs to change to reduce these episodes in future.
Learning objectives:
- why young people go missing
- what we can do to pre-empt, intervene and learn from missing incidents
- young people’s perspectives on what would help
- identify risks associated with going missing
- understand a contextual safeguarding approach
- use the levels of intervention model before, during and after missing episodes.
the trainers
Rachael Courage is a trainer and consultant for dialogue who runs our Children’s Homes course . Rachael holds a masters degree in Social Work, as well as a level 5 NVQ in Management. Rachael has 20 years experience as a Social worker, and is currently practicing as a Chair for Child Protection Conferences for a Local Authority. She is an experienced trainer in child safeguarding, and child protection, and has managed sexual exploitation and missing services for Barnardos, including setting up services in new areas and working with Child Safeguarding Assurance Partnership around their strategic response to child sexual exploitation. Rachael has been the safeguarding lead for the children and young people’s service within a hospice and has worked for the NSPCC delivering individual and group therapeutic interventions for children who have experienced abuse.
Michelle Nicholson who runs our Supported Accommodation course has a 20-year career in Children’s Residential Services working with Children and has previously set up a children’s home after working in long term secure home, a first of it’s kind as a transitional children’s home for young people to move to following their time in a secure children’s home. Michelle has extensive experience of managing inspections and registering homes with Ofsted, with experience in policy writing, management of staff, delivering training and extensive safeguarding knowledge. She also has experience of supporting young people at significant risk of CSE and CCE. Michelle has a history of building strong multiagency care teams to ensure that young people have their needs met and are safe and advocates for young people at every opportunity in supporting them to have their voice heard.
booking and dates
This half day course is being delivered virtually for £82+VAT.
If you have booked five places the sixth place is free.
ICHA, NASAP, NAFP, SW Forum, and RI Network members receive a 25% discount – members price is £62+VAT
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