The City of York Safeguarding Children Partnership has arranged partner briefing sessions: Signs of safety building brighter futures practice model.
The training is open to:
All multi-agency partners, including Children’s Social Care and Adult Social Care, Police, Health, Local Authority, Education, Voluntary Sector etc.
Course outline:
Following the overarching briefing session regarding Building Brighter Futures Practice Model (which covered Family Seeing and Signs of Safety Approaches) the Learning Development and Implementation Team Members will be holding a series of workshop-style briefing sessions focusing on the practice model as a whole but also introducing the safe and together approach.
‘Safe and Together’ is an internationally recognised model that was first developed in the United States. The model encourages cultural and systematic shifts in practice, including changing the language around working with survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse. Lead practitioners are provided with a suite of tools and interventions to identify and highlight survivor strengths and recognising domestic abuse as a parenting choice of the perpetrator. As such, the model equips practitioners to deal with risk and take a strengths-based approach in engaging whole families where domestic abuse is a factor, including holding the perpetrator accountable for the impact of the abuse on family functioning.
The model has three key principles:
• Keeping children Safe & Together with their non-abusive parent, ensuring safety, healing from trauma, stability, and nurturance.
• Partnering with the non-abusive parent as a default position ensuring efficient, effective, and child-centred practice.
• Intervening with the perpetrator to reduce the risk and harm to the child through engagement, accountability, and criminal justice.
Dates:
Tuesday 20 May 2025 – 10am – 11am
Thursday 22 May 2025 – 11am – 12
Friday 6 June 2025 – 9am – 10am
All will be held via MS Teams
Please book on via Mylo using the book here button.