Child protection supervision skills: NSPCC training course

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Child protection supervision skills

A training course for individuals with a lead role for safeguarding within the voluntary, community and statutory sectors

Course aim

To equip supervisors and front-line managers to create and sustain an effective supervisory framework which ensures safe, child-centred delivery of safeguarding activities.

Course objectives

This course is designed to enable you to:

identify the purpose of supervision, with particular reference to safeguarding work
explain the different models of supervision and their relationship to practice and safeguarding outcomes
identify both practitioner and manager skills within a competency framework
apply principles of adult learning to your own supervision practice
practice supervisory skills and evaluate your own performance in order to apply your learning to real life situations
recognise some of the unhealthy processes in supervision and their potential for dangerous practice.

Dates

Five-day course delivered in two parts (part 1 = three days and part 2 = two days):

Autumn programme 2008/09: 7 - 9 October 2008 (part 1) and 14 - 15 January 2009 (part 2) in Leicester.
Summer programme 2009: 16 - 18 June 2009 (part 1) and 16 - 17 September 2009 (part 2) in Leicester.
Autumn programme 2009/10: 6 - 8 October 2009 (part 1) and 13 - 14 January 2010 (part 2) in Leicester.

Cost