Please find information on this page around training offered outside of the Pan-Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership training offer

Reducing Parental Conflict training

This programme has been designed by Knowledgepool to upskill practitioners in supporting parents to reduce conflict within their relationship, whether they are together or separated.

Module 1 – Understanding parental conflict and its impact on child outcomes

Module 2 – Recognising and supporting parents in parental conflict

Module 3 – Working with parents in conflict

Module 4 – Reducing parental conflict: the role of supervisors and managers

Online training

Virtual College are offering a range of short, free online training courses to support parents and professionals working with children. Please access these courses and share with colleagues and teams as appropriate.

Understanding Young Minds

Suitable for parents and professionals. This online course, ‘Talking to your children about emotional resilience and self-harm’, has been designed to provide you with a basic awareness of the subject to help you approach children with confidence about the issue.

https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses/understanding-young-minds

Female Genital Mutilation: Recognising and Preventing FGM

This course is useful for anyone who is interested in gaining an overview of FGM, particularly frontline staff in healthcare, police, border force and children’s social care.

https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses/recognising-and-preventing-fgm

Keeping them safe: Protecting children from CSE

Suitable for parents and professionals. Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace) and Virtual College have teamed up to provide this short (20 to 30 minutes) online course designed for parents and carers. This course will be of interest to those working with children

https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses/keep-them-safe

Awareness of Forced Marriage

This course is aimed at all professionals who have a responsibility to safeguard vulnerable children, young people and adults at risk and is aimed specifically at child protection services, health professionals, education professionals, police officers, children’s social care, adult social care, and housing authorities.

https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses/awareness-of-forced-marriage