NWG Working alongside parents as safeguarding partners

NWG would like to thank the individuals and families who have shared their own experiences to help us produce this course. The course is designed to ensure that their voices are heard and used to inform and influence local and national practice.

Session Overview

This course encourages attendees to recognise and understand the value of working alongside families as key safeguarding partners in preventing and responding to exploitation.

Attendees will explore the impact exploitation has on the family and consider some of the systemic and cultural barriers that can make engagement between parents and practitioners more challenging.

The course will also highlight local and national good practices and principles that can enable and encourage how we can better work alongside families and hear their voices.

Attendees will be encouraged to reflect and share their own practice examples and identify development opportunitiesin.

development opportunities

Colleagues who already either have experience in supporting and working with families affected by exploitation or are responsible for developing a culture of working alongside families affected by exploitation as a safeguarding partner rather than a generic parenting course.

Session Aims and Objectives

*To be able to explain why families are an important safeguarding partner in how we prevent and respond to exploitation

*Explore in detail the impact that abuse by exploitation can have on the family and what they need from professionals to enable them to become a safeguarding partner

* Identify barriers to families being safeguarding partners and describe ways to overcome them

*Develop a personalised action plan to promote families as safeguarding partners based on key national principles

This event will take place on Microsoft Teams - the link to join will be sent via Eventbrite 2 days before the event and again 30 minutes before the start so please check your inbox and spam/junk folder for the email.

Host or Publisher NWG Exploitation Network