Training Opportunities

This course will enable you to gain an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the Designated Safeguarding Officer role and develop competence and confidence in the role.

The course will enable you to respond to the challenges of safeguarding children, families and adults in 2025.

• Identify the Designated Safeguarding Officer’s roles and responsibilities
• Identify legislation, statutory guidance, policies and procedures which enable the DSO to manage safeguarding and allegations
• Identify the key elements of the Pan-Lancashire procedural frameworks for safeguarding children and families and understand how to apply these in practice
• Identify effective responses to emerging concerns, including extra familial harm
• Identify the escalation process to help manage cases appropriately within local authority thresholds
• Define key aspects of developing a safeguarding culture in education (allegations / safer recruitment)
• The effective assessment management of risks

Facilitator James Upton has worked in safeguarding since 1996 and now owns his own training and consultancy business (Motivational Interviewing and Safeguarding Training Ltd). James has worked as a Children’s Social Worker, Adults and Childrens Substance Misuse Worker, University Lecturer and Youth Worker across roles in Health and Social Care.

James is also an Associate trainer for the NSPCC and Alcohol Change UK and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). His approach to training is Trauma informed.

The cost of the session is £40 for LDCVS members and £65 for non-members.