What We Do?
We offer services to a range of clients that include:
- Education and childcare sectors (schools, nurseries, tutoring services, after school clubs)
- Health and wellbeing sector (GP's, private medical or therapeutic clinics, Speech and Language therapists, OT's)
- Leisure, sports and recreation sector (sports clubs, activity centres, soft play centres, theatre groups)
- Community and faith based organisations (youth groups, community centres, charities)
- Businesses (hotels that cater for children, children's shops, talent agencies representing children, production and theatre companies, social media platforms)
Services:
Policy Development:
We will support your business or organisation to develop and strengthen your safeguarding policies, tailoring those policies to meet your specific needs. We specialise in developing clear, practical and bespoke safeguarding frameworks, our goal is to make protecting children that access your service, simple. We will provide you with direct, actionable steps to strengthen your organisation's policies and culture. Whether you require a full safeguarding overhaul or targeted support, we are here to guide you.
Training:
Utilising years of experience in training medical professionals, teaching staff and Local Authority social workers, the Children's Safeguarding Consultancy now privately provides a number of training opportunities for you, delivering comprehensive, engaging, research-based and practice-informed workshops covering a range of themes. Furthermore, we have the flexibility to work together with your service to create training workshops that target the areas of development specific to your needs, and themes relevant to your staff and the children and families they see.
Our training offer includes, but is not limited to:
- Child Protection (Introductory and Advanced)
- Creating a Safe Culture: Embedding Safeguarding for children in your Organisation
- Direct work in trauma experienced children, teens and SEN children
- Recognising and responding to child exploitation
- Safeguarding in the private sector: What businesses need to know
- Supporting children through transitions and change
Parents and Carers Support:
We provide consultations with parents, carers and family members who are worried about children within their personal network. This might be as a result of a range of issues including:
- Family breakdown
- Contact issues between parents
- Bullying
- Online risks
- Concerns for your child's social network
If you need specialist support to consider your responses to issues that are concerning you or whether you need a professional ear to offer guidance or support to think about your next steps, we are here to help.