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SUMMARY:Working with Young People Affected by the Criminal Justice System
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nChildren and young people who come into contact with the criminal justice system are often experiencing circumstances that extend far beyond offending behaviour. Their lives may be affected by trauma\, exploitation\, disrupted relationships\, poverty\, exclusion from education\, substance misuse\, peer influence\, mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties\, or previous experiences of abuse and neglect. \n\n\n\n📅 Date & Time: 23rd October\, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM📍 Live Online via Teams📢 Early Bird Price: £54 (VAT included) – Register 2+ weeks before🎟️ Standard Price: £74 (VAT included) – Group Discount available for groups of 5+ \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\nFor professionals working in children’s social care\, understanding these experiences is essential. Young people should not be defined solely by offending behaviour or viewed simply through the lens of risk. \n\n\n\nThis practical course explores how professionals can work effectively with young people who are offending\, at risk of offending\, have previously offended\, or are otherwise affected by the criminal justice system. \n\n\n\nThe course considers the relationship between safeguarding\, accountability and support\, including the particular vulnerability of care-experienced children and the importance of avoiding unnecessary criminalisation. \n\n\n\nParticipants will explore approaches that recognise risk and harm while maintaining a focus on relationships\, strengths\, identity\, opportunities for change and the young person’s future. \n\n\n\nCourse Content\n\n\n\nThe course explores how and why children and young people may become involved with the criminal justice system and the range of individual\, relational\, social and environmental factors that can contribute to offending and criminalisation. \n\n\n\nParticipants will consider the relationship between childhood adversity\, trauma\, attachment\, disrupted education\, peer relationships\, exploitation\, substance misuse and offending behaviour. Attention will also be given to the distinction between children as perpetrators of harm and children who may themselves be experiencing exploitation\, coercion or victimisation. \n\n\n\nThe course will examine the experiences of children in care and care-experienced young people\, including the risk that behaviour which might be managed differently within a family environment can result in police involvement and criminal justice responses when it occurs within care settings. \n\n\n\nParticipants will explore the importance of proportionate responses to incidents\, including when police involvement may be necessary and when alternative approaches may be more appropriate. \n\n\n\nThe course will also consider engagement with young people involved with Youth Justice Services\, police\, courts and other agencies\, and how effective multi-agency working can contribute to safeguarding\, rehabilitation and positive outcomes. \n\n\n\nRestorative and strengths-based approaches will be explored alongside concepts such as positive identity\, desistance\, accountability and supporting young people to recognise their strengths and possibilities beyond offending. \n\n\n\nPractice Application\n\n\n\nThroughout the course\, participants will be encouraged to look beyond the immediate behaviour and consider what may be happening in the young person’s wider life. \n\n\n\nPractical discussion and scenarios will explore how professionals can respond to offending and risk-taking behaviour without allowing the behaviour to define the young person. \n\n\n\nParticipants will consider how to maintain meaningful professional relationships while setting appropriate boundaries\, managing risk and supporting accountability. \n\n\n\nThe course will explore responses to incidents within residential and supported settings\, including decision-making around police involvement\, safeguarding responses\, information sharing and communication with other professionals. \n\n\n\nParticipants will also consider how direct work and key working can help young people explore consequences\, relationships\, decision-making\, peer influence\, exploitation\, aspirations and alternative futures. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\nLearning Outcomes\n\n\n\nBy the end of the course\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand some of the pathways through which children and young people may become involved with the criminal justice system.\n\n\n\nRecognise the relationship between adversity\, trauma\, exploitation\, relationships and offending behaviour.\n\n\n\nConsider offending behaviour within the wider context of a young person’s experiences and circumstances.\n\n\n\nRecognise when a young person involved in offending may also be experiencing exploitation\, coercion or victimisation.\n\n\n\nUnderstand the particular risks of criminalisation for children in care and care-experienced young people.\n\n\n\nConsider when police involvement may be necessary and when alternative responses may be appropriate.\n\n\n\nBalance safeguarding\, risk management and accountability with relationship-based support.\n\n\n\nWork more effectively alongside Youth Justice Services\, police and other relevant agencies.\n\n\n\nApply restorative and strengths-based principles when responding to offending behaviour.\n\n\n\nSupport young people to develop identities that are not defined by offending or criminal justice involvement.\n\n\n\nUse purposeful direct work to explore decision-making\, consequences\, relationships\, risk and future aspirations.\n\n\n\nPromote opportunities for rehabilitation\, positive change and social inclusion.\n\n\n\nReflect critically on how professional and organisational responses can either reduce or contribute to the criminalisation of young people.\n\n\n\n\nIntended Audience\n\n\n\nThis course is suitable for professionals working with children and young people who are involved with\, at risk of becoming involved with\, or affected by the criminal justice system. This includes residential childcare practitioners\, children’s home managers and deputy managers\, supported accommodation practitioners and managers\, foster carers and fostering professionals\, social workers\, personal advisers\, key workers and other professionals working with adolescents across children’s social care. \n\n\n\nCourse Facilitator\n\n\n\nSilvia Lopez Quijada is an experienced practitioner\, academic and trainer with specialist knowledge across youth justice\, criminal justice\, victimology\, restorative justice and domestic abuse. \n\n\n\nHer professional and academic interests include understanding offending and victimisation within their wider social and relational contexts and exploring evidence-informed approaches that promote accountability\, rehabilitation and positive change. \n\n\n\nSilvia brings a strong combination of academic knowledge and practice-focused learning to her training. Her approach encourages participants to look beyond labels and presenting behaviour\, consider the experiences and circumstances influencing young people’s involvement with the criminal justice system\, and develop responses that balance safeguarding\, accountability\, relationships and opportunities for change. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://socialcareskills.co.uk/event/working-with-young-people-affected-by-the-criminal-justice-system/
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SUMMARY:Managing Serious Incidents: Responding\, Reviewing and Learning
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nSerious incidents can happen in any social care service. When they do\, the quality of the immediate response is critical – but effective incident management does not end when the immediate situation has been brought under control. \n\n\n\nManagers and practitioners need to consider what happened\, whether everyone is safe\, who needs to be informed\, what actions are required\, how the incident should be recorded and reviewed\, and what needs to change as a result. This course explores the complete process of managing serious incidents\, from the initial response through to review\, organisational learning and improvement. \n\n\n\n📅 Date & Time: 27th October\, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM📍 Live Online via Teams📢 Early Bird Price: £94 (VAT included) – Register 2+ weeks before🎟️ Standard Price: £104 (VAT included) – Group Discount available for groups of 5+ \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\nThe course considers how professionals can make effective decisions under pressure while maintaining a clear focus on safeguarding\, proportionality\, communication and accountability. It also explores the importance of management oversight and the need to look beyond individual incidents to identify patterns\, contributing factors and wider organisational issues. \n\n\n\nRather than treating incidents as isolated events that simply need to be recorded and closed\, participants will explore how serious incidents can provide important information about children’s needs\, staff practice\, risk management\, organisational systems and the overall quality of a service. \n\n\n\nCourse Content\n\n\n\nThe course begins by exploring what may constitute a serious incident and why different incidents require different levels of response\, management oversight and escalation. \n\n\n\nParticipants will consider the immediate priorities following an incident\, including ensuring safety\, responding to injuries or immediate risks\, safeguarding children and young people\, supporting staff\, preserving relevant information and establishing an accurate understanding of what has occurred. \n\n\n\nThe course will examine management decision-making during and immediately following serious incidents. This includes determining who needs to be informed\, when senior management involvement is required\, when external agencies should be contacted and how responsibilities should be coordinated when several professionals or organisations are involved. \n\n\n\nAttention will be given to effective incident recording and the importance of distinguishing factual information from assumptions\, interpretations and professional analysis. Participants will consider what good records should demonstrate about the incident\, the response and subsequent management oversight. \n\n\n\nRegulatory notifications will be considered as one element of incident management\, but the course is not focused solely on notification requirements. Instead\, participants will explore the wider responsibility to ensure that serious events are appropriately managed from beginning to end. \n\n\n\nThe course will then move into post-incident review. Participants will consider how to establish what happened\, identify contributing factors\, evaluate whether existing plans and risk assessments were effective and determine whether different actions could have reduced the likelihood or impact of the incident. \n\n\n\nAttention will also be given to repeated incidents and emerging patterns. Participants will explore how individual incidents can be analysed collectively to identify themes relating to particular children\, locations\, times\, staff practice\, environmental factors or organisational systems. \n\n\n\nFinally\, the course will consider how learning should be translated into action. This may include changes to risk assessments and plans\, staff support or training\, management arrangements\, procedures\, environmental measures or wider service development. \n\n\n\nPractice Application\n\n\n\nThroughout the course\, participants will work with realistic scenarios and consider the decisions that managers and practitioners may need to make at different stages of a serious incident. \n\n\n\nThe session will encourage participants to move beyond the question of “Was the correct procedure followed?” and consider broader questions such as: \n\n\n\n\nWhat happened?\n\n\n\nIs everyone safe?\n\n\n\nWhat needs to happen now?\n\n\n\nWho needs to know?\n\n\n\nWhat does this incident tell us?\n\n\n\nCould anything have prevented or reduced the impact of the incident?\n\n\n\nWhat needs to change as a result?\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will consider the role of management oversight\, including how managers can challenge incomplete or purely descriptive incident records and ensure that follow-up actions are completed. \n\n\n\nThe course will also explore post-incident support and debriefing\, recognising that serious incidents can have an impact on children\, young people and staff. \n\n\n\nParticular attention will be given to ensuring that learning is evidenced. Identifying a lesson is not sufficient if nothing changes afterwards. Participants will therefore consider how actions can be allocated\, monitored and reviewed to establish whether they have resulted in meaningful improvement. \n\n\n\nThe overall aim is to develop an approach in which incident management contributes to safer practice and continuous organisational learning. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\nLearning Outcomes\n\n\n\nBy the end of the course\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\n\nRecognise the characteristics and potential significance of serious incidents.\n\n\n\nIdentify immediate priorities when responding to a serious incident.\n\n\n\nMake proportionate safeguarding and risk-management decisions following an incident.\n\n\n\nUnderstand when incidents require escalation to senior managers or external agencies.\n\n\n\nCoordinate communication and information sharing following serious events.\n\n\n\nProduce and evaluate clear\, factual and analytical incident records.\n\n\n\nUnderstand the place of regulatory notifications within the wider incident-management process.\n\n\n\nProvide effective management oversight following serious incidents.\n\n\n\nConduct meaningful post-incident reviews.\n\n\n\nIdentify immediate\, underlying and contributing factors associated with incidents.\n\n\n\nEvaluate whether existing risk assessments\, plans and interventions remain appropriate.\n\n\n\nRecognise patterns and themes across multiple incidents.\n\n\n\nConsider the impact of serious incidents on children\, young people and staff.\n\n\n\nTranslate learning from incidents into clear actions and improvements.\n\n\n\nMonitor whether actions taken following incidents have resulted in meaningful change.\n\n\n\nDevelop an organisational approach that uses incidents as opportunities for learning and improvement.\n\n\n\n\nIntended Audience\n\n\n\nThis course is suitable for professionals with responsibility for responding to\, managing\, reviewing or learning from serious incidents across social care. This includes Registered Managers\, Responsible Individuals\, Nominated Individuals\, Deputy Managers\, senior practitioners\, residential childcare staff\, supported accommodation managers and practitioners\, fostering professionals\, service managers\, safeguarding leads and other professionals with responsibility for operational oversight\, safeguarding\, risk management or quality assurance. \n\n\n\nCourse Facilitator\n\n\n\nMiguel Valerio is an experienced social worker\, trainer\, consultant and social care leader with more than 20 years of professional experience across social care\, education and professional development. \n\n\n\nHis experience includes operational and strategic leadership across children’s homes and supported accommodation\, including roles as Service Manager\, Operational Manager\, Responsible Individual and Registered Service Manager. \n\n\n\nThroughout these roles\, Miguel has extensive experience of responding to and overseeing serious incidents\, safeguarding concerns\, risk management\, regulatory notifications\, management reviews\, quality assurance and service improvement. \n\n\n\nThrough Social Care Skills\, Miguel supports social care providers with consultancy\, audits\, mock inspections\, registration\, regulatory compliance and service development. His work has a particular emphasis on helping managers move beyond procedural compliance to understand what incidents\, records and other evidence reveal about the quality and effectiveness of practice. \n\n\n\nHis training approach combines practical operational experience with reflective analysis\, helping participants consider not only how to respond effectively when serious incidents occur\, but how organisations can use those incidents to strengthen practice\, reduce risk and improve outcomes. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://socialcareskills.co.uk/event/managing-serious-incidents-responding-reviewing-and-learning/
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