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This FREE course aims to increase participant’s understanding, skills and knowledge when working with parental substance and alcohol use. This course will benefit staff from Children's Services (Social Care and Education), Health, Community Mental Health Team & Youth Offending Team, who are working with children & families or with adults who have children & may be involved in making and/or receiving referrals regarding child care and child protection issues.

Important note: It is essential that you have undertaken the Safeguarding Children eLearning and the Alcohol and Drugs foundation (Modules 1 & 2) eLearning prior to coming on this course (see additional information under full details), or you may be turned away.

Joining Instructions

This course will be delivered by Microsoft Teams. Full joining instructions, including links to access the training and guidance will be attached to your confirmation email. Please ensure you read these prior to the course start date and keep them in a safe place.

This course is for you if you are familiar with entering formulas and analysing data in Excel and want to write code to automate Excel tasks, such as formatting a report and performing operations which can not be done using conventional Excel commands.

This virtual training is for Provider Managers and their senior staff, who may be asked to make (caused to) or contribute to a safeguarding enquiry under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014 and is made up of 4 Modules. 

All 4 modules need to be completed to have successfully completed this training. The modules are:

Module 1 - What is Safeguarding? on 02.12.2020 at 10am - 12pm

Module 2 - Making Safeguarding Personal on 03.12.2020 at 10am - 12pm

Module 3 - Information Sharing and Record Keeping on 09.12.2020 at 10am - 12pm

Module 4 - Making Enquiries on 10.12.2020 at 10am - 12pm

Staff will need to have completed a Safeguarding Adults Basic Awareness training session before attending this virtual training.

The modules of this virtual training will include duties under s42 of the Care Act 2014; involving the adult – using a Making Safeguarding Personal approach to support the adult to determine their outcomes; planning an enquiry and becoming familiar with ESCC documentation.

Each module will be delivered through Microsoft Teams. Once your place on each module has been confirmed, you will receive a separate Outlook calendar invite with a link to the Microsoft Teams meeting. Please note this invite will be sent close to the day/time of each module. Please read the attached document – Attending online training- before joining the course.

This course will be delivered across 5 sessions, via Microsoft Teams, and will introduce delegates to the core skills they require to manage change and deliver projects. 

Please see additional notes for timetable of sessions

This 3-day interactive workshop will introduce delegates to the core skills they require to manage change and deliver projects. It is case-study based with attendees working in groups to deliver worked examples of the tools and techniques provided.

Learn how to publish accessible documents to meet the needs of all users under the accessibility regulations

A 3 hr Trainer-led MS Teams session covering GOV.UK guidance for creating accessible documents including:

• Writing accessible documents
• Making non-HTML documents accessible
• Creating a PDF/A for archiving purposes