Upcoming courses:

Contextual Safeguarding: Responding to Exploitation and Abuse Outside the Family Home

Do you want to understand about external risks to children and young people and how to recognise the signs and work with them, and their families alongside the statutory agencies and communities, to better protect them. To learn more, and gain extra confidence in your practice, come to this multi-agency course.

Dates: 16/09/26

Venue: De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea

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Consent, Sex and Young People

Over the course of this half day workshop you will learn about the law in relation to sexual consent. We will break down the definition and use case studies to explore what having the freedom and capacity to consent means. We will look at the rights and responsibilities of individuals engaging in sexual activity and ways in which you can discuss these issues with children and young people by looking at practical tools and resources.

Dates:24/09/26

Venue: Virtual, Zoom

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Improving Outcomes for Children we Care for and Care Leavers

Messages from practice and research highlights that children and adults who are care experienced have higher rates of physical, emotional, social, and educational need, and are more likely to experience homelessness, teenage pregnancy, prison and problems with their mental and emotional health.

They are also more likely to die younger. The majority of children who enter care have suffered significant harm, neglect and trauma, and some are children who have travelled alone from their country of origin to seek asylum in UK.

Dates: 03/11/06

Venue: Virtual, MS Team

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Identifying the Sexual Abuse of Children

This course, will enable participants to identify child sexual abuse, understand the legal context, and to consider factors that make children and their families vulnerable to sexually abusive behaviour and gain a better understanding of how they can manage disclosures of child sexual abuse.

Dates: 19/11/26

Venue: Virtual, MS Teams

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Understanding Self-Harm in Children and Young People using the East Sussex Tool kit

This training session is for professionals working with children and young people. It is important to understand about self-harm. In East Sussex recent data showed that around a third of secondary age children have intentionally hurt themselves. In primary schools the numbers are increasing. 

Aim of the course.

To understand what self-harm is and increase confidence in having the conversation with a young person if they tell you about their self-harm.

Dates: 04/11/26

Venue: Wellshurst Golf Club, Hellingly

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Places still available:

Understanding Safeguarding in a Digital World

Dates: 20/01/27

Venue: Wellshurst Golf Club, Hellingly

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Child Criminal Exploitation and Child Sexual Exploitation – Working with Young People at Risk

Dates: 21/01/27

Venue: Virtual, zoom

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Other Multi agency Training

Professional Level Trauma-Informed Approaches to Working with Families in a Multi Professional Context

Date: 21/10/26

Times: 0930 – 1630

Venue: Faraday House, Eastbourne

Positive Behaviour Support

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a holistic, value led approach to supporting individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, Autism and other complex disabilities. PBS assessment and interventions help increase the Quality of life (QOL) for individuals whist reducing the need to exhibit behaviours of concern.

Course code: PBS001

Dates: 12/10/2026 & 13/10/26 (both dates must be attended)

Time: 09.30 – 17.00

Venue: ESTDC, Eastbourne

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