Delivered by Steve Baguley – Education and Transition Lead

The transition from Children’s to Adult Services has been highlighted as a national issue, with a ‘cliff-edge’ of support as vulnerable children turn 18. This training course has drawn on the knowledge and practice experience of Steve Baguley who has a professional background in education as well as working as a service manager for a Local Authority Children’s Service. Steve has spent 2 years engaging with services across the country looking at approaches to transition planning and exploring the critical challenges facing practitioners who work with children approaching adulthood.

Exploitation and Transition to Adulthood – Day Training Course

The session is beneficial to anyone working within safeguarding and child exploitation including teachers, Social Care teams, police, health practitioners and the third sector.

This updated training course aims to embed in practice some of the findings of the NWG’s report into transitional support for victims of exploitation and complement our transition benchmarking tool which is designed to ensure an improved strategic response to the issue.

Learning Outcomes

During this session, delegates will develop approaches to working with older children in preparation for transition into adulthood.

We will discuss and consider how perceptions of adolescents can impact our practice and services.

The training will support understanding and the implementation of relevant legislation and practice guidance surrounding transition.

Delegates will be provided with guidance on planning for transition and bridging the gap between Adult and Children’s Services, as well as working with child exploitation victims into adulthood.

By the end of the session, delegates will be able to;

• Explore and explain the concept of ‘transition’ and what it means to practice and strategic planning.
• Understand what informs the current focus on transitional safeguarding.
• Outline the key areas to consider when implementing transitional safeguarding policy and procedures.
• Define what good transition looks like.
• Translate knowledge to the development and application of effective transitional safeguarding strategies.

What previous delegates have said about this training:

It was brilliant and innovative towards change and raising awareness of multi professional guidance towards helping with transition.

Informative, interesting and food for thought for my future practice.

The training was interesting, interactive and helpful.

Excellent!

I’ll be able to bring this into sessions with professionals to inform practice and a multi-agency approach to protecting children and young people. I will now have a focus on how aware partners are around adolescent development

Really good and informative session. Lots to think about in regards to the service development.

This course is available to book through NWG’s Eventbrite page but can also be commissioned for your organisation or service. If you would like to discuss how this course can support your working practice, please get in touch with [email protected]