Face to face

Tuesday 3 February (WaF)

Wednesday 4 February (Cumberland)

13:30 – 15:30pm

13:30 – 15:30pm

Kendal Town Hall

Wigton Market Hall

• Identify key themes and lessons from recent CSPRs and LLRs in Cumbria
• Apply learning to improve safeguarding practice and decision-making
• Strengthen multi-agency collaboration and information sharing
• Recognise early signs of risk and harm in children and families
• Implement practical improvements in their roles and teams

To sign up for the Westmorland and Furness date, please email: wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk with your full name, job title, organisation & email address.

To sign up for the Cumberland date, please follow the link: Face to Face Training | Cumberland Safeguarding Children Partnership

Join us for a Lunch & Learn session for Safer Internet Day. The session will focus on current online risks for children and young people and outline practical steps that adults can take to support safer digital use. If you work with or support children, booking a place may be helpful.

What is Safer Internet Day?

Safer Internet Day is the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety. Each year Safer Internet Day covers online issue or themes that speak to the things young people are seeing and experiencing online.

Safer Internet Day is co-ordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre in partnership with Childnet.”

• Understand current online risks for children and young people
• Learn practical steps to support safer digital use
• Gain insight into Safer Internet Day and its themes
• Develop skills for talking to children about online safety

To reserve a place or make an enquiry, please contact us at:

wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk

WFSCP Working Together to Safeguard Children is intended for professionals who are required to work at level 3 competency within their statutory framework, particularly where responsibilities include keeping children safe.

You will need to have completed Level 2 Safeguarding Children (eLearning). To access the basic Level 2 eLearning course, log in to the Virtual College using the link below.

Virtual college

The aim of the training is to develop a common understanding of risk management and to provide support to all professionals working with children so that everyone is clear about:

• the thresholds for access to services which support the actions needed to improve the outcomes for children
• understanding of roles and responsibilities
• identifying exemplars of good practice
• individual responsibility when working with children, young people and families
• responsibility of different agencies; and
• the tools in place to support professionals in their role

To book your place or if you have any queries, please email WFSCPTraining@cumbria.gov.uk 

All participants should arrive 15 to 20 minutes before the start time.

Prior to attending this course, participants must undertake the Child Exploitation and Extra Familial Harm Level 1 eLearning course, to access eLearning, log in to the Virtual College using the link below.

Virtual college

Tuesday 3 February

Friday 17 April 

Friday 3 July 

Monday 12 October 

13:00 - 16:00

10:00 - 13:00

10:00 - 13:00

13:00 - 16:00

Barrow Town Hall

Kendal Town Hall

Barrow Town Hall

Kendal Town Hall

• Recognise signs of child exploitation and extra-familial harm.
• Identify risk factors and vulnerabilities in children.
• Assess and respond to children at risk effectively.
• Apply safeguarding frameworks and legal responsibilities.
• Collaborate with multi-agency teams to protect children.
• Support children safely and appropriately.

To book your place or if you have any queries, please email WFSCPTraining@cumbria.gov.uk 

All participants should arrive 15 to 20 minutes before the start time.

Cumbria Constabulary, with the support of the Local Authority, are updating their Missing Persons policy and procedures in line with national guidance. Changes are due to go live from January 2026.

The changes to be made are focussed on ensuring a proportionate response by Police on receiving a report of a missing child. Sometimes, Police involvement in the first instance may be disproportionate, negatively impact on a child's life or relationships with professionals and on occasion, may lead to unnecessary criminalisation of that child should they commit a criminal offence on being located by Police.

Identified risks to all children will continue to be fully assessed during the initial call to Police. Where it is deemed proportionate, it may be that reasonable actions available to the parent or carer and are to be carried out prior to Police Officers being deployed. This is in accordance with the children who go missing from care framework and approved Police professional practice.

To provide you with the required skills and knowledge prior to changes being implemented, a training event is being held.

• The police will provide an overview of changes to their procedures, invite discussions around safety planning and provide an insight into the role of the Police METCO (Missing, Exploited, Trafficked coordinators).

To reserve a place or make an enquiry, please contact us at:

wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk

Westmorland & Furness Council, in partnership with SafeLives, are offering the training opportunity to complete ‘Responding Well’ Domestic Abuse Training. This training has been agreed as the consistent, baseline DA Awareness across Cumbria. 

SafeLives are a UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good. They are independent, practical and evidence-led, with survivor voice at the heart of our thinking. They work with organisations across the UK to transform the response to domestic abuse.

• define Domestic Abuse with an update on the DA Act 2021 and the changes to current practice/legislation.
• ensure a thorough understanding of controlling and coercive behaviour and how abusive relationships develop.
• explore typologies of abuse using Michael Johnson’s model and consider how this impacts our assessment of risk and intervention for families.
• understand the importance of risk assessment- using tools such as the SafeLives DASH (as specific to Cumbria which uses a combined DASH) but also our professional judgement
• identify how trauma impacts survivors and how we can work in a more trauma-informed way.
• understand best practice when working with those impacted by DA and how to use our knowledge of DA to respond in a non-victim-blaming way.

For available dates and to book a place, please click on the link below

Book your place (Eventbrite)

If you have any queries regarding the training or you are having issues with booking, please contact Alison Goodfellow by email: alison.goodfellow@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Important Information - Police Officers/staff need not attend as Cumbria Constabulary have their own DA Matters Training.

• identify the signs of Domestic Abuse
• to be able to effectively assess risk with the use of the DASH Risk Assessment and combined homicide timeline

This powerful and thought-provoking multi-agency training shares Tom’s voice—the voice of a child who lived through domestic abuse and tragically lost his mother to it. Developed as part of a Domestic Homicide Review, this session gives practitioners a rare and moving insight into the lived experience of children impacted by parental domestic abuse.

Using Tom’s own words, the training promotes child-centred, trauma-informed practice, encouraging professionals to reflect deeply on how domestic abuse, coercive control, and neglect affect children’s emotional wellbeing and development.

Participants will learn to:

• listen to Tom’s story and recognise what his and his family’s experiences can teach them
• explore the key themes of domestic abuse, coercive control and neglect, and understand how these can affect mental health
• reflect on how trauma and adverse childhood experiences shape children’s lives and future outcomes

To reserve a place or make an enquiry, please contact us at:

wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk

By the end of the session, participants will have:

• an increased awareness of the seriousness of NFS
• an understanding of the physiological and psychological impact of NFS
• the ability to identify and manage the risks associated with NFS
• insight into how victims may present
• an understanding of how to respond and support victims and children/young people using a trauma-informed approach

To reserve a place or make an enquiry, please contact us at:

wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk

• Understand the Family Help / Early Help approach.
• Spot early signs of need in children and families.
• Use early assessment and planning tools effectively.
• Work jointly with partner agencies.
• Engage families using a strengths-based approach.
• Follow local pathways and referral processes.

Bespoke training with your school or agency can however be arranged via the Family Help service to help ensure you have the current Early Help knowledge to support children and families. 

• professional curiosity
• trauma informed practice (DSLs in Schools only)

We’re offering a full-day Trauma Informed Training, open to everyone in your team or organisation – including receptionists, support staff and frontline workers.

This training will help you understand how trauma impacts the brain, body, and behaviour and how adopting a trauma-informed approach can transform the way we support individuals, communities, and each other at work.

Find out more in this short video: What is Trauma Informed?

• By the end of the session, you will:
• begin to understand the transformation to becoming Trauma Informed Lancashire
• explore how trauma affects our body, brain, and behaviour
• recognise how trauma may present in the people we work with
• consider the wider impact of a trauma-informed approach
• reflect on changes we can make in our own practice, services, and organisations

To reserve a place or make an enquiry, please contact us at:

wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk