Family Help and Safeguarding

Universal Safeguarding Children

Universal Safeguarding Children Refresher

Drug & Alcohol Awareness

Therapeutic Thinking Schools Introduction

This course if for Early Help staff to help them understand the Therapeutic Thinking Schools Programme and how to work effectively with schools to help families.

Outcome Stars

An introduction to using Outcomes Stars to help support families to make changes in their lives.

Introduction to Child Exploitation

This training is delivered by Thames Valley Violence Prevention Partnership.

Hostile & Evasive Families

This course will enable workers who work with families to develop effective ways and build confidence in working with difficult behaviour, in order to recognise potential impacts on professional dynamics and multi-agency child protection work when professionals are faced with working with families who are hostile and evasive. It is recommeded for all BFfC staff who work in families homes alone as part of our Lone Worker training pathway.

Mind of My Own

Training in Mind of My Own which is used to communicate directly with children and young people we support.

MRC Webinar - Critical Reflection and Analysis

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Responding to Concerns About Domestic Abuse

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is useful for a wide range of social issues. Its primary focus is on igniting motivation to change, and so it is helpful when clients are stuck in problems and not advancing in change. As such it is helpful in all change and recovery-based services such as mental health, substance misuse, offending, social work, domestic violence, supported housing, young people’s services, family work and more besides.

PPEP NOW: Having Constructive Conversations with Distressed Young People

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. Learn about a structure known as ‘NOW’ to facilitate helpful and constructive conversations with children and young people

PPEP Supporting Young People who Self Harm

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. What self-harm is and how it might present.

PPEP Overcoming Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. The presentation of anxiety in adolescence and how to talk with young people about it.

PPEP Supporting Young People with Eating Disorders

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. What eating disorders are and how they might present.

Understanding Contextual Safeguarding

An introduction to contextual safeguarding

Care2Listen

Have a better understanding what things are like for Children in Care

Makaton Level 1

Makaton is used to communicate with someone who has language and/or learning difficulties.

Working with Young Black Men

DSE Assessor

Health and Safety Level 2 (Virtual)

Makaton Level 2

Introduction to Contextual Safeguarding

PPEP - Supporting Children and Young People with ADHD

PPEP Autism and Mental Health

Part of our PPEP Mental Health programme. The relationship between autism and mental health. Exploring

Emergency First Aid at Work

This course is designed for people who want to receive training in emergency first aid. It is especially suited for nominated first aiders in offices. The course covers first aid protocols for adult casualties only.

Domestic Abuse: Awareness Level 1

MRC Webinar - Understanding the Relationship Between Risk and Harm: A Strengths-Based Approach to Child Protection

This webinar is managed by our partner, MRC.

MRC Webinar - Assessing and Responding to Neglect

This webinar is managed by our partner, MRC.

MRC Webinar - Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Emotional Abuse

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Understanding the Needs of Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse

This is an online webinar managed by our Partner.

MRC Webinar - Care Planning: Placement Stability and Good Outcomes

This is an online webinar managed by our partner. Delegates must complete their registration via Eventbrite to secure their places.

MRC Webinar -Reuniting Children and Young People with their Birth Families

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Putting Analysis into Assessment: A Person Centred Approach

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Learning from Serious and Local Safeguarding Practice Reviews: Messages from Practice and Research

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Supervision Series: Developing Supervisees' Capacity for Reflection, Analytical Thinking and Decision Making Skills

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Supervision Series: Managing and Promoting Good Practice - A Strength-Based Approach to Managing Performance

This course is managed by Eventbrite and delegates are requested to book a space directly with them. You will receive the booking link when you register below.

MRC Webinar - Supervision Series: Building Staff Wellbeing and Professional Resilience

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Use of Self: The Ethical Use of Authority in the Supervisory Relationship

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

Making Sense of Autism - AET Course

Developing an understanding of Autism. This is the first stage of the Autism Education Trust AET training pogramme.

Good Autism Practice

Develop your understanding of Autism and what makes good autism practice.

Manual Handling Train the Trainer

This course is to train staff to be able to deliver manual handling to colleagues in their team and service.

MRC Webinar - Is There a Growing Mental Health Crisis Among Children and Young People?

Delegates must book their space via Eventbrite. Please register below to receive the booking link.

MRC Webinar - Understanding the Evolving Needs of the Workforce: A Webinar for Those in Workforce and Staff Development

This online webinar is managed by our learning partner. Participants will need to complete the enrolment via external site. A webinar which explores the evolving needs of the workforce for those working in workforce and staff development.

Challenging Conversations

This 90-minute session looks at a structured set of techniques, strategies and tips to make those tricky conversations more productive. It covers how to prepare yourself in advance of the conversation, as well as specific techniques of building rapport, active listening, and managing emotional reactions.

Resolving Conflict

This 90-minute session will provide you with an understanding of some of the most common sources of conflict and the risks of not managing conflict effectively in the workplace. It will also provide some practical advice on using a range of strategies and applying them to different scenarios. You will leave with a practical action plan for tackling your own conflict scenario that can be applied straight away.

Motivate Yourself

This is a 90-minute core skill training session delivered virtually, instructor-led.

Building Accountability

This is a 90-minute core skill training session delivered virtually, instructor-led.

Presentation Skills

This is a 90-minute core skill training session delivered virtually, instructor-led.

Building Effective Teams

This is a 90-minute core skill training session delivered virtually, instructor-led.

RiP - How to use Research in Practice

This session is managed by our partner Research in Practice. To secure your place for the training, you have to complete the registration on the RiP platform.

RiP - Practice Pointer - Organisational resilience and wellbeing

This session is managed by our partner Research in Practice. To secure your place for the training, you have to complete the registration on the RiP platform. Register below to get the link.

RiP - Supporting children, families and adults across housing and social care

This session is managed by our partner Research in Practice. To secure your place for the training, you have to complete the registration on the RiP platform.

RiP - Rethinking domestic abuse and child protection (RDAC): Messages for practice

This session is managed by our partner Research in Practice. To secure your place for the training, you have to complete the registration on the RiP platform.

RiP - Practice Pointer - Professional curiosity in children and family services and adult social care

This session is managed by our partner Research in Practice. To secure your place for the training, you have to complete the registration on the RiP platform.

RiP - Practice Pointer - Analysis and critical thinking in assessment

This session is managed by our partner Research in Practice. To secure your place for the training, you have to complete the registration on the RiP platform.

RiP - Practice Pointer - Promoting anti-racist practice

This session is managed by our partner Research in Practice. To secure your place for the training, you have to complete the registration on the RiP platform.

MRC Webinar - Championing Communication: Working With Interpreters to Overcome Language Barriers

This webinar is managed by our partner, MRC.

MRC Webinar - ‘I Know How It Sounds On Paper’: Risk Talk, Written Reports and Managing Emotionally Charged Child Protection Home Visits

This webinar is managed by our partner, MRC.

RiP online learning workshop - Developing professional curiosity for child and family practitioners

This is a one day learning workshop organised by our partner - Research in Practice. This full day interactive session is delivered online and participants are encouraged to contribute with the aid of breakout rooms, the chat function and large group discussions.