Events

Neurodivergent young people may experience communication, attachment, social processing and emotional regulation differently. Without informed support, this can increase vulnerability to coercion, grooming, unhealthy relationships or restrictive safeguarding responses.

Children who experience disrupted attachments, trauma, or care transitions often struggle with fragmented identities and unanswered questions about their past. Life story work helps fill those gaps, offering a structured and therapeutic space for young people to process their experiences. Done well, it can promote healing, strengthen relationships, and support placement stability. This training helps practitioners avoid tokenistic approaches by focusing on readiness, participation, and creative, child-centred methods that honour each individual’s story.

Is your service prepared for its next Ofsted inspection? This focused and highly practical session is designed to give leaders and practitioners the clarity, tools, and confidence they need to approach inspection with assurance. Led by Rachel Holden, former Senior HMI at Ofsted, the course offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from someone who has led inspections across a range of children’s services.

Transitions between placements, services or stages of care can be some of the most destabilising moments in a young person’s journey. This development session explores how leaders can ensure that transitions are managed with planning, stability and relational continuity, reducing the risk of disruption and emotional harm.

Ensuring a safe and competent workforce is a fundamental responsibility for providers of children’s homes, supported accommodation, and fostering services. This training will guide you through best practices in recruitment, screening, and vetting, helping you reduce risks and enhance safeguarding within your organization.

Notifications are a legal obligation and a core indicator of a service’s transparency, responsiveness, and safeguarding culture. This training empowers managers and providers to treat notifications as part of their broader safeguarding framework and quality assurance cycle. A robust understanding of notification duties helps ensure that serious incidents are not only reported but also used as learning opportunities to strengthen care.

Matching young people to the right supported accommodation placement is one of the most important decisions services make. Poorly matched placements can quickly lead to instability, safeguarding concerns and breakdowns in support. This development session explores how leaders can strengthen their matching processes by considering risk, independence readiness, compatibility and the wider needs of young people preparing for adulthood.

Drawing directly from inspection methodology, regulatory expectations and real-world practice, this training supports professionals to move beyond compliance anxiety and towards confident, evidence-informed preparation that reflects authentic, child-centred practice.