2 day Signs of Safety Core Practitioner Training SofS Pathway course

2 day Signs of Safety Core Practitioner Training SofS Pathway course

Join us for a 2-day intensive Signs of Safety Core Practitioner Training - dive deep into the SofS Pathway and enhance your skills!

By LLR Safeguarding Children Partnerships

Date and time

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:30 - Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:30 GMT+1

Location

City Hall, Leicester City Council

115 Charles Street Leicester LE1 1FZ United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 day 7 hours

Please read before booking: This course is delivered by Leicester City Council for internal staff and for multi-agency partners and other organisation who support and work with Leicester City children, young people and their families. (if you do not work within Leicester City, but would still like to attend, please contact signsofsafety@leicester.gov.uk to enquire and we may be able to support attendance.)

There may be a nominal charge for private (for profit) organisations inside and outside of Leicester City or other Local Authorities. There would not be any charge for key partner agencies such as LPT, UHL, Leicestershire Police, Domestic Abuse Services etc. If you are unsure, please contact us via the email address for clarification.


This 2-day course is the standard training module for front line Childrens Social Care and Early Help practitioners to support the use of the Signs of Safety approach. It is designed for all practitioners, supervisors and managers working with children where there are concerns about their safety and well-being. Delegates must attend the whole of the 2 days.

The course is targeted to those staff who:

· Work for Leicester City Children’s Services. (This is the first course in the mandatory Signs of Safety training pathway for LCC children’s staff.) or

­ A member of staff who has had some Signs of Safety training before and wishes to have a refresher, to consolidate their learning, or if they have had a break from practice (i.e. returning to practice or returning from parental leave etc.)

­ Work for SEND / education services in Leicester City

­ Other LCC teams and service, ie Adult Mental health practitioners, OT services, transitions teams. i.e. Community Safety, some housing leads etc.

For external staff:

· Roles in partner agencies who regularly refer, contribute to assessments and planning, attend, or contribute to meetings and multi-agency decision making.

· Have a Designated Role for Safeguarding.

· Health visitors, school nurses, CAMH’s practitioners, specific roles in school, ie behaviour, attendance, support roles.

· Who are a children’s lead practitioner in your setting.

· Domestic abuse services, homelessness services, services that advice and support people in relation to drug or alcohol use etc.

· Youth workers.

· Domestic abuse, homelessness, services that advice and support people in relation to drug or alcohol use.

· Staff who work for private foster care agencies, or private residential settings.

This course of the practice methodology and approach that Leicester City uses in its work with children and families and focuses on the use of the Signs of Safety Assessment framework to support relationship-based practice to secure safety, wellbeing, success and stability for the child or young person.


The course will give delegates the opportunity to:

· Apply the practice framework with a focus on assessment, analysis and judgement. .

· Apply analytical thinking and create statements goals and scaling questions which are routinely used in practice.

· Use the principles of strengths based / relationship-based practice throughout.

· Consider other elements of Leicester city’s practice methodology: trauma informed practice, Lundy Model of participation and anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice.

· Understand the key terms and practice developing best questions to support assessment and analysis.

· Have an overview of the other elements of practice framework that support assessment and planning work.

9th & 10th april: The new International Social workers will be added to this course. However if you have any new starters or staff that could benefit from this session, please ask them to book. https://forms.office.com/e/9ZRzdriKUD


The next 2 day courses:

· 4th & 5th June 9.30 – 4.30pm G02 , Leicester City Hall

To Book : https://forms.office.com/e/9ZRzdriKUD

· 13th & 14th October 2025 9.30 – 4.30pm Main Hall New Parks House

To Book: https://forms.office.com/e/B7dinuPznW


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Leicester Safeguarding Children Partnership Board and Leicestershire & Rutland Safeguarding Children Partnership work together to provide safeguarding learning. The learning supports all who work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children & young people.

Learning, development and training opportunities can support individuals, managers and organisations in understanding and undertaking their safeguarding roles and responsibilities in a confident, competent and committed manner.

The responsibility for organising safeguarding learning belongs to individual organisations. However, there are a range of specialist safeguarding events and other related learning that can support multi–agency safeguarding across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. Please note that when you book through these pages we might use some of the information you provide to invite you to upcoming events, and/or use this information to provide statistics for your Local Authority.

The LSCP ‘Multi-Agency Training’ is funded by both LSCP boards & local partners. Therefore, the programme is designed to meet the learning needs within Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. To be sustainable, there may be a charge to attend and this is set out in the Charging Policy.

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Booking and Cancellation Policy from 1st April 2021 for all training and events, this includes both free training and events, and those with a booking charge:

• Places can still be cancelled, with refunds offered, up to 7 days prior to the training/event taking place if you know that you are unable to attend, you do this on Eventbrite. If you need to cancel your place on ANY training and you inform us at least 7 days in advance of the training, we may be able to offer you an alternative date within the same term. The name of the delegate (the name on the event ticket) can be changed at any time by logging into your Eventbrite account and navigating to ‘Tickets’ which can be found by hovering over your avatar.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any refund of booking fees made if you cancel a place after the 7 days cancellation offer has ended.

• If a delegate from an organisation did Not Attend (NA) and we have not been informed this will be noted as NA. To ensure the service is able to continue to offer subsidised training and this cost isn’t passed on to everybody, we have made the difficult decision to freeze those places to providers who continue to not attend preventing others to access the training.

Any organisation which has a record of 2 NA’s within a period of 2 months, will not be able to book onto any LSCPB training or event advertised on Eventbrite for a period of 3 months from the last NA. This freeze on access to training can be lifted immediately by the organisation paying the cost of the event missed, in most occasions this cost will be considerably higher than the amount paid at the point of booking. Up to the maximum of £40.00.

Please note the freeze applies to the organisation and not just the named staff, therefore providers will not be able to book any training/events during the freeze period.

We know that sometimes delegates find it difficult to access virtual training. We will do our best to support you to join the event. Please email lscptraining@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 454 3951 and ask to speak to the Training Team immediately and support will be offered. Delegates who contact us in these circumstances will not be recorded as NA and if possible, an alternative event will be offered.

If support is unable to be offered due to the session taking place out of normal office hours or a continuation of technical difficulties, you must still email or call and leave a message at the time that you cannot access the live event so it will not be recorded as NA.

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