Professional Curiosity & Professionals Challenge within Safeguarding

This FREE 2-hour webinar is for all those who work with children, young people and their families, including volunteers (Police, Children’s Services, Early Years, Health, Community & Voluntary services)

It will provide you with an opportunity to discuss this important safeguarding skill and apply it to your daily practice.

This Pan Sussex, multi-agency session seeks to create a safe space in which you can ask questions, identify barriers and solutions and identify the most effective ways to work with children and their families, as well as other professionals, in order to support families and promote the best outcomes for those children and young people involved.

Training Objectives

The aim of this webinar is to support you in developing a better awareness of professional curiosity, the importance of this skill and how to apply it to your daily practice in safeguarding children and young people.

This session will also include how to safeguard vulnerable adults in harmful situations.

Learning Outcomes

If you apply what you learnt on this webinar you will be able to:

• Recognise Professional Curiosity and its importance within safeguarding.
• Identify the barriers to professional curiosity and how to overcome these.
• Demonstrate an awareness of how to be professionally curious with both professionals and with children and their families.
• Understand the pathways, including how to challenge decision making using the Pan Sussex Escalation Policy, to share and mitigate these concerns.