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Contextual Safeguarding Training - Safeguarding Against Harm Outside of the Family Home

Thursday 2nd October 2025

Tuesday 10th February 2026

 Sessions are from 09.30 till 16.00 and will be held via MS Teams

Thurrock LSCP are pleased to offer practitioners the opportunity to attend our free training in relation to Contextual Safeguarding.

Learning outcomes

• Understand the Contextual Safeguarding approach, its history and current position within the safeguarding system
• Consider the developmental period of adolescence and types of harm that takes place outside of the family home
• Examine the use of these approaches in relation to peer on peer abuse and child exploitation using case studies
• Learn from current research and practice examples in implementing this approach
• Consider how to apply this approach to our own work
• Signpost to further learning and resources

Training Format

This training is scheduled for a whole day and will follow the below format:-

• Prior to the training, you will receive a Teams link to access the training and you will also receive a WeTransfer link which contains the training materials required for the course.
• At different points throughout the day, the Trainer will give you time to leave the training session and watch the relevant PowerPoint presentation you received previously - please note that you will need to play the presentation as a slide show as each presentation will contain a video of the Trainer providing a narrative to the presentation.  Can we please ask that when you receive the WeTransfer link, that you check that you are able to hear the video for each presentation.
• Once you have watched the presentation, you will re-join the training course where further discussions will take place and possibly some work being undertaken in breakout rooms.

Added Information:

• Your attendance at these sessions will be monitored and noted so that we can record that you have completed this training.

To book onto this training, please click here

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