Posted April 27, 2026
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East Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership, Free Training
From 1st 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.
Click on the link for each course to take you straight to the course details. You need to be logged into your East Sussex Learning Portal (ESLP) account for the hyperlinks to work. Put ESSCP in the search field on the ESLP and you can view all the ESSCP training on offer. The attached document contains information on more ESSCP training opportunities and other multiagency training opportunities.
In Focus – booking open till 11/05/26
| 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. | |
 | Start date: 12/05/26 Time: 10:00 – 15:00 Venue: Virtual, MS Teams
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New courses
| Take this course | 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. |
| Take this course | 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. |
Upcoming courses
| Take this course | Adolescents and Abusive Behaviours in their Intimate Relationships Dates: 17/06/26 & 26/11/26 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. |
| Take this course | Identifying the Sexual Abuse of Children Date: 22/05/26 Venue: Virtual, MS Teams |
| 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. |
| Take this course | Safeguarding Children with Additional Needs Date: 25/06/26 Venue: Wellshurst Golf Club, Hellingly |
| 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. |
| Take this course | Trauma Informed approaches to working with Families in a Multi Professional Context: Foundation Level Date: 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. |
| Take this course | 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:
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| Online Learning |
| eLearning courses covering mental health, child sexual abuse, domestic abuse, alcohol and drugs and much more are available on our website at https://eastsussexcc.learningpool.com/login/index.php |
In East Sussex, through our Family First programme, we’re tackling the need for earlier help first, so that families can get the support they need as early as possible. The Family First programme has been designed to transform the way services which support children and families are delivered. For more information, please visit the Family Hub.
Please find attached guidance on registering for an account if you are external user. If you have any queries about the booking process or course administration, please contact us.
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0300 124 6810Address
Community Action East Sussex
49 Station Road
Polegate
East Sussex
BN26 6EA
