East Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership, Free Training

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East Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership, Free Training

From 1^st September 2025 all multi-agency training provided by the East Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership (ESSCP) will be FREE to attend for ALL organisations across East Sussex. The three pan Sussex Children’s Safeguarding Partnerships are adopting a joint charging policy to ensure equity and accessibility across Sussex for both statutory and non-statutory organisations.

Understanding Self-Harm in Children and Young People using the East Sussex Toolkit, delivered by expert and knowledgeable colleagues from our CAMHS service.

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.

Start date: 08/07/26

Time: 09:30 to 12:30

Venue: Wellshurst, Hellingly

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

Dates: 15/06/26

Venue: ESTDC, St. Marys House, Eastbourne.

Are you working with individuals who find it challenging to engage with conventional services or offers of help? Ever asked yourself “what has happened to them” rather than “what is wrong with them?” Then this course is for you.

Trauma informed approaches are strength based and recognise that past experiences, relationships, intersectionality, and context affect current ways of being, relationships and interactions. The Trauma informed lens reframes behaviour that has been traditionally seen as “resistant, difficult, challenging or problematic” as individuals’ best attempts at coping and surviving. In this context it is understandably that the relationships practitioners build with people to promote safety, is emotional work, that inevitably impacts upon them.

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Safeguarding Children with Additional Needs

Dates: 25/06/26

Venue: Virtual, Zoom

This course aims to challenge professional thinking, values and beliefs that exist around children and young people with special educational needs and Disability. The training will highlight specific risk factors and enable participants to understand the signs and indicators associated with safeguarding children with additional needs

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Adolescents and Abusive Behaviour in their Intimate Relationships

Dates: 17/06/26

Venue: Virtual, MS Teams

The training focuses on domestic abuse, both experienced and perpetrated by young people in their intimate partner relationships. The training will explore ways in which to engage young people and their families, consider and use strategies, interventions, tools and resources available to practitioners in East Sussex when working with young people and their families who are experiencing violence and abuse.

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Child Criminal Exploitation and Child Sexual Exploitation

Dates: 02/07/26

Venue: Virtual, Zoom

This course will give participants a foundation level of knowledge across areas including; Models of exploitation, vulnerabilities and risk factors for children and young people, online and face to face exploitation. Hidden demographics such young men and people with disabilities ,awareness of the role for trauma in stages of intervention and an overview of criminal exploitation, including county line, cuckooing and radicalization, will also be covered.

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Understanding Safeguarding in a Digital World

Dates: 07/07/26

Venue: Wellshurst Golf Club, Hellingly

This course will enable professionals to explore current research and practice in relation to children and young people’s online lives, highlighting the importance of fostering media literacy and digital resilience skills. By the end of the course, participants will have explored how children use technology, addressed the benefits alongside the risks, explored how to prepare young people for online platforms and devices, and considered the additional risks for vulnerable children including those with learning disabilities or additional needs. You will also learn about parental controls, setting boundaries, and various tools, resources, and approaches to support young people effectively.

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

Dates: 08/07/26

Venue: Wellshurst Golf Club, Hellingly

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.

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Understanding Neglect for Families and their children; Using the Neglect Toolkit to assess, record and refer families for support

Dates: 09/07/26

Venue: Uckfield Civic Centre

The ESSCP is promoting this new Neglect training course which introduces the updated Neglect Toolkit and Neglect Matrix.

This course will give you an overview of current research in relation to child neglect and to explore the East Sussex Neglect Toolkit to:

Feel more confident at recognising and assessing neglect using both the Matrix and recording the child’s voice, and its impact for children and young people.
To use the toolkit and reference the use of the tools in their work to embed standard assessment criteria which will enable more evidence-based analysis.
To understand how to review their work within agency, again using standardised tools.
To understand the impact of better multi agency working and communication

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Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA)

Dates: 21/10/26

Venue: Wellshurst Golf Club, Hellingly

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