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County Lines and Exploitation Awareness Training Schedule
2nd – 6th October 2023
This awareness training programme aims to develop and improve our understanding of the threat from County Lines and Criminal Exploitation.
All sessions are free of charge to attend and will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. The timetable below has links to the Eventbrite booking page for each event, where tickets can be booked. There are limited spaces for each session, so please sign up at your earliest opportunity to guarantee your place.
On behalf of the West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership we would like to share our deepest gratitude to our third sector partners who are delivering the training within the programme below.
We encourage you to share this awareness training programme far and wide amongst your networks regionally and nationally.
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| NSPCC | Mubashar Khaliq | Online Safety webinar | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers, parents/carers/grandparents, community members | Monday 2nd October, 11:00 – 12:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nspcc-online-safety-webinar-tickets-700180016277?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| The Children’s Society | Maryam Hussain | Anti-oppressive Practice | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers | Monday 2nd October, 13:00 – 15:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-childrens-society-anti-oppressive-practice-tickets-700315391187?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| Barnardo’s | Nic Cummings & Holly Jessup | Modern Slavery and Understanding the NRM (National Referral Mechanism) | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers | Tuesday 3rd October, 10:00 – 12:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/barnardos-modern-slavery-and-understanding-the-nrm-tickets-699660763177 |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| SaferNow | Sean Monaghan | Dynamic Safety Planning for Complex Circumstances | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers | Tuesday 3rd October, 13:00 – 15:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safernow-dynamic-safety-planning-for-complex-circumstances-tickets-699653160437?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| Safer Together | Nikki Holmes | Cuckooing (Home Invasion Awareness Workshop) | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers | Wednesday 4th October, 10:00 – 12:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safer-together-cuckooing-home-invasion-awareness-workshop-tickets-699646189587?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| The Clewer Initiative | Amy Bishop & Jackie Mouradian | Understanding County Lines for Parents, Grandparents and Guardians | This session is aimed at: Parents, grandparents, guardians/ carers | Wednesday 4th October, 14:00 – 15:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: Understanding County Lines for Parents, Grandparents and Guardians Tickets, Wed 4 Oct 2023 at 14:00 | Eventbrite |
| West Midlands Police, Economic Crime Unit | Khatija Nichols | Financial Exploitation/Money Muling | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers | Wednesday 4th October, 15:00 – 16:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/west-midlands-police-economic-crime-unit-financial-exploitation-tickets-696564271487?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| PACE (Parents Against Child Exploitation) | Dr Sarah Hall | PACE’s Relational Safeguarding Model and Contextual Safeguarding Approach | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers | Thursday 5th October, 10:00 – 11:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pace-cliw-session-tickets-700739539827?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| NSPCC | Danielle Harris | Childline Today | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers, parents, carers, grandparents | Thursday 5th October, 13:00 – 14:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nspcc-cliw-awareness-session-tickets-700723893027?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| St Giles Trust | Samantha Emery | Child Abuse Awareness Session (Specifically covering Girls and Young Women – Exploitation and Youth Related Violence) | This session is aimed at: Parents, carers, grandparents | Friday 6th October, 10:00 – 11:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-giles-trust-child-abuse-awareness-covering-girls-and-young-women-tickets-700701706667?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Training Provider | Facilitator/s | Training Title | Target Audience | Date & Time | How to join training |
| Catch 22 | Jasmeet Kaur | Understanding the experience of women and girls in county lines | This session is aimed at: Professionals, frontline workers | Friday 6th October, 14:00 – 15:00 | Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catch-22-understanding-the-experience-of-women-and-girls-in-county-lines-tickets-700327276737?aff=oddtdtcreator |
Additional training available:
- Contextual Safeguarding training – Thursday 5th October, 12:30 – 15:30 via MS Teams – Please use the following link to register: https://training.solihulllscp.co.uk/Course/CourseDescriptive.aspx?id=167 (applicants must have completed Foundation (agency specific, in-house) safeguarding training and ideally LSCP Module 5(A) CE Awareness training)
- VRP webinars week commencing 2nd October, (all via MS Teams)
- Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention webinar – Monday 2nd October, 10:00 – 12:00
Sign up using the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-health-approach-to-violence-prevention-tickets-615683344457?aff=oddtdtcreator
- Serious Violence Duty Briefing webinar – Monday 2nd October, 14:00 – 15:00
Sign up using the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/serious-violence-duty-briefing-tickets-604659511877?aff=oddtdtcreator
- An Introduction to Childhood Adversity and Trauma Informed Practice webinar – Tuesday 3rd October, 09:00 – 12:30
Sign up using the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introduction-to-childhood-adversity-and-trauma-informed-practice-webinar-tickets-617236700587?aff=oddtdtcreator
- NSPCC Online Safety webinars – NSPCC are delivering free twilight and evening online safety sessions where professionals, parents and carers, and community members join the same virtual session. ‘Keeping children safe online’ will teach you how to help kids explore their favourite apps, games and sites safely, and will:
• help you understand how children experience the online world
• show you resources and tools that could help keep them safe
• empower you to guide them on their journey.
We do ask for a member of staff from your school/organisation to be present during the session if you are a parent/carer.
Please contact Mubashar Khaliq at [email protected] if you are interested in attending one of the evening sessions below:
- Wednesday 13 September 6-7pm
- Tuesday 19 September 7-8pm
- Thursday 28 September 5-6pm
- Wednesday 4 October 7-8pm
- Thursday 12 October 6-7pm
- Tuesday 17 October 5-6pm
- Monday 23 October 6-7pm
- Thursday 16 November 7-8pm
- Tuesday 12 December 6-7pm