
Train The Trainer- Adult Safeguarding
Professionals from agencies working with adults in South Gloucestershire.
This brand new one day event commissioned by the Safeguarding Adults Board is a train the trainer programme for organisations who wish to deliver awareness raining training to their own staff. The course is open to any organisations who work with adults in South Gloucestershire.

Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)
This half day course is commissioned by the children’s partnership and practitioners will consider how to recognise and respond to child sexual abuse.

Advanced Child Protection
This course is for anyone who works with children, young people, and families in South Gloucestershire and is the second level of inter-agency child protection training. It builds on the knowledge and skills learned in the Introduction to Child Protection course.

Advanced Child Protection (Out of Hours)
This course is for anyone who works with children, young people, and families in South Gloucestershire and is the second level of inter-agency child protection training. It builds on the knowledge and skills learned in the Introduction to Child Protection course.

Bitesize Workshop: Safeguarding Children Who Do Not Live at Home (Private Fostering)
This session educates practitioners on private fostering and their obligations. Recommended for all who work with young people across agencies, to ensure they understand their responsibilities and who to contact for support and guidance regarding safeguarding children.

Advanced Child Protection Update
This half day course will help to enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence to work together well, to ensure that the provision of help, support and protection of children is effective. You must have already completed the Advanced Child Protection update.

Advanced Child Protection Update (Out of Hours)
This half day course will enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence to ensure that the help, support and protection is effective. You must have already completed the Advanced Child Protection update.

Bitesize - Information Sharing
This course covers the seven golden rules for information sharing, relevant legislation, how to have confidence when sharing, case examples, and guidelines on consent and when not to share information.

Bitesize - MARAC
This course is for anyone who would like an overview of the MARAC process. Topics covered include building an understanding of MARAC, how to refer, and the roles of each person attending the MARAC.

Bitesize - Risk Outside the Home
In this session you will gain an understanding of the term extra-familial harm plus an awareness of different types of exploitation. You will learn about South Gloucestershire’s agreed response to child exploitation and the importance of language in relation to child exploitation.

Bitesize - Thresholds
This one-hour multi-agency session provides valuable information about local services and guidance on how and when to refer. It’s based on the threshold guidance ‘The right help in the right way at the right time’.

Bitesize Learning: Self Neglect
This 45-minute workshop from the South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board is for practitioners from all agencies working with adults in South Gloucestershire. Based on learning from local safeguarding adult reviews and local practice guidance this is a practical learning session.

Hoarding and Self-Neglect
This one-day interactive course provides delegates with information and guidance on capacity and the legal frameworks relevant to self-neglect, including hoarding. It is targeted at all health and social care professionals who work with people who self-neglect.

Domestic Abuse
This 1.75-day course is for practitioners from all organisations across South Gloucestershire. It promotes effective multi-agency working and a key focus is on person/child-centred practice to promote positive outcomes for people who are affected by domestic abuse.

Effective Multi-Agency Working in Adult Safeguarding
This course focuses on the importance of effective multi-agency working and best practice in adult safeguarding. We recommend that you complete the Raising Safeguarding Concerns course before you attend this course.

Risk Outside the Home Multi-Agency Training
This course explores various Risks Outside the Home (ROTH) for children, covering legislation, case studies, and practical tools. It replaces three previous exploitation courses and includes insights from local and national safeguarding practices.

Exploitation of Adults
This one-day course explores adult exploitation and how to identify the different forms it may take. Exploitation can affect different people in various ways. The course will highlight signs of exploitation and what you can do to help, or minimise the risk, or experience of abuse.

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Would you know how to spot the signs of human trafficking and modern slavery? It exists in our communities. This training will help you to identify the signs, understand your duties, learn how to respond and support the people you work with.

Introduction to Child Protection
This course is the first level of inter-agency child protection training. Together, delegates will explore safeguarding themes. It aims to make sure delegates are confident in understanding what child abuse is and when and how to act on concerns.

Introduction to Child Protection (Out of Hours)
This course is the first level of inter-agency child protection training. Together, delegates will explore safeguarding themes. It aims to make sure delegates are confident in understanding what child abuse is and when and how to act on concerns.

Mental Capacity Essentials
This course introduces the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) for front-line care staff. You will learn to apply MCA principles at work, understand when the MCA applies, and know when to seek advice and support. Enhance your skills to support individuals effectively and ethically.

Professional Curiosity - the What? Why? and How?
Attendees will explore the ‘What, Why and How’ of professional curiosity., with discussion of the barriers to being curious, challenging and courageous, identify ways to overcome them, and consider how to embed this approach into practice.

Raising Safeguarding Concerns - Adults
This half day course is essential training for front-line practitioners who work with and provide services to adults at risk. It will equip participants with an understanding of what safeguarding adults is, recognising an adult at risk, and how to take relevant action.

Recognising and Responding to Organisational Abuse and Neglect
This course is for anyone who leads and/or reviews partner organisations and has attended the Raising Safeguarding Concerns course. It will help you understand and be accountable for managing and preventing organisational abuse in services.

Safeguarding Disabled Children
This one-day course uses a variety of activities including case study work and insights from Safeguarding Practice Reviews. It provides practitioners with the time and space needed to explore the many safeguarding needs of this particular group of children.

Signs of Safety Awareness for Partners
In South Gloucestershire, Signs of Safety is our Practice model. This three-hour session is for those not directly using the approach with children or families but needing an understanding of the practice and our relationship and strengths-based work with families.

The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
This two-day course helps practitioners from health and social care carrying out Mental Capacity Act assessments to confidently apply the principles of Best Interest Decision making and identify where there is a deprivation of liberty.

Safeguarding Information Page
Please read this information to understand more about the training offer from the Safeguarding Adults Board and Children’s Partnership.
This will help you to know about the training pathways and costs associated with the training programme.

Safeguarding E-module Information
For South Gloucestershire Council staff, please read this to understand how to access your induction safeguarding e-modules.
For external staff and internal staff, find out here how you access the range of safeguarding e-learning modules that are on offer.

Safeguarding for Schools
The Safeguarding Children's Partnership provides single agency training materials for schools.
Please access the September 2025 Safeguarding Refresher cascade pack for schools here.