Spotlight Sessions
The WSCP safeguarding Spotlight Sessions are part of our training and learning offer to professionals.
Spotlight Sessions are short single topic safeguarding briefings delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams, delivered on different topics throughout the year. Please note, these are short briefing sessions not training, therefore attendance certificates will not be provided.
Private Fostering
Delivered by the Operational Lead for Private Fostering, this session will cover the following objectives:
- The definition of Private Fostering and how to recognise a Private Fostering arrangement
- The legal duties of professionals to report
- The processes when a Private Fostering arrangement starts and ends.
To book onto a session please click on the date you wish to attend:
Harmful Sexual Behaviour Identification Tool
Delivered by colleagues from the Youth Justice Service we are holding 2 spotlight sessions discussing the Harmful Sexual Behaviour Identification Tool developed in the Wirral.
Objectives of the session:
- Become familiar with the sexual behaviours tool.
- Understand the continuum approach in terms of interpreting sexual behaviour across a range of ages in children/young people
- Become familiar with appropriate levels of intervention according to age ranges and presenting behaviours
- Understand support available to staff dealing with sexual behaviours amongst children and young people
To book onto a session please click on the date you wish to attend:
Ketamine use in young people
Due to the popularity of these sessions we have scheduled another run of Spotlight Sessions delivered by a colleague from Response. These sessions will cover the following objectives:
- The timeline of Ketamine and prevalence on Wirral
- What is Ketamine? Is it just for horses??
- How Ketamine affects the body
- How are young people accessing Ketamine
- Short and long term effects of using
- Ketamine Bladder Syndrome
- What support is available to Ketamine users and how to refer—Response and Partners working together to support Young people on Wirral
To book onto a session please click on the date you wish to attend:
18th November 6pm – cancelled
12th December 11am – cancelled
Systemic Practice Spotlight Sessions
As we approach 2.5 years since the first Cohort of Systemic Practice training was delivered, and over 900 professionals having attended the 2 days training we are at the point of embedding the model in practice. In order to do this we will be offering a number of themed Spotlight Sessions over the next 6 months with a view to spending time thinking about how some of the Systemic concepts impact on our work with children and families.
The second themed Spotlight Session to be confirmed,
To book onto a session please click on the date you wish to attend:
Dates to be added
Presentations from previous Spotlight sessions, including Sexual Abuse Referral Centre, Branch one year one, Family Group Conferencing, Lets Talk about Assessments, and many others are available on the virtual learning event page (registration required) here: https://www.wirralsafeguarding.co.uk/virtual-learning-event/