Children and Young People's Workforce Development

Children and Young People's Workforce Development

As part of 51��¥'s Learning and Development Team, we provide a dedicated training programme for practitioners working with children, young people and their families in 51��¥. These courses have a health and social care focus in order to promote best practice, enable and engage families and effectively promote achievement and safeguard children and young people in 51��¥.

We also cascade information to the workforce to support knowledge and skills.

Further information

Additionally for specific areas of learning please see the useful links below:

51��¥ Safeguarding Adults Board (WSAB)
Education Services Training – a wide range of development and best practice courses for staff in early years, first, primary, middle, secondary and post-16 settings
Education Services Conferences – events covering a variety of topics, best practice and innovative learning to help schools and settings improve outcomes for children and young people
- Free e-learning to help adults to identify and understand children and young people with mental health issues

Safeguarding training

Essential multi-agency safeguarding training is delivered via 51��¥ Safeguarding Children Partnership and 51��¥ Safeguarding Adults Board.

51��¥ also endorses the Home Office's eLearning module on 'Prevent'. Prevent is part of the government counter-terrorism strategy, it's designed to tackle the problem of terrorism at its roots, preventing people from supporting terrorism or becoming involved in terrorism themselves.

The Home Office Prevent eLearning module is available via the . 51��¥ employees - please log in using your usual eLearning username and password. Non-51��¥ employees, can access the module via the .

Training opportunities

Multi-agency training opportunities are available from the Early Help Training and Events page.

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