Multi-Agency Resources & Recorded Training
There are a host of videos, podcasts and presentations across a range of different safeguarding topics which can be accessed on demand.
To access them please view a specific section (use the 'on this page' drop down menu to quickly view a section) and click 'access here'.
- Child Exploitation
- Contextual Safeguarding
- Domestic Abuse, including Honour Based Abuse & Forced Marriage
- Emotional Wellbeing
- LGBTQ+
- Masterclasses
- Neglect
- Online Safety
- Professional Curiosity & Challenge
- Public Health Resources via Wakefield Traded Services
- Radicalisation / Prevent
- Safeguarding training, approaches & processes
- Self Harm & Suicidal Ideation
- SEND
- Substance misuse
- Trauma
- Wakefield Families Together Leadership Programme
- Young Babies & Infants
- Young People
Child Exploitation
Child Sexual Abuse / Exploitation
- e-Learning: Keep Them Safe: Protecting Children from Child Sexual Exploitation by Virtual College
- e-Learning: SARSAS: Responding to disclosures of sexual violence or abuse
- e-Learning: SARSAS Self-help guide to trauma & recovery for survivors of sexual abuse or rape
- External Training: Ivison Trust
- Podcast: Child Sexual Abuse Material (there is no such thing as child pornography)- Vicki Maybin
- Podcast: Cultural barriers to disclosing child sexual abuse by Co Race Equality Taskforce
- Guidance: For organisations and victims of Child Sexual Abuse from Marie Collins Foundation
- Podcast: Sibling Sexual Abuse - The Last Taboo?
- Resources: The Sibling Sexual Abuse Project
- Video: Adolescence Vulnerabilities, Risk and Exploitation A case study from Children Vulnerable to Exploitation Team – Michelle Leadbetter
- Video: Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) – Esther Bottomley, Spectrum
- Video: Identifying & Responding to Concerns of Child Sexual Abuse (Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse)
Child Criminal Exploitation, including County Lines
- Podcast: Criminal exploitation with Rebecca Weaver by Safeguarding Days
- Resources: Knife Crime
- Video: Child Criminal Exploitation: The Local Picture – Detective Sergeant Charlie Manson
- Video: Child Criminal Exploitation raising awareness in Wakefield
Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking
- e-Learning: ECPAT UK Training on Child Trafficking
- Video: General Awareness of Modern Slavery – Amy Morris
- Video: Modern slavery and human trafficking by National Crime Agency
Harmful Sexual Behaviour
Contextual Safeguarding
- Contextual Safeguarding: Network Resources – a range of short videos & podcasts
- Video: The Principles of Contextual Safeguarding
- Video: Language and Contextual Safeguarding
- Video: An Introduction to Contextual Safeguarding
- Video: Rewriting the rules of Child Protection
- Resource tool: Your Guide to Contextual Safeguarding
Domestic Abuse, including Forced Marriage, Honour Based Abuse & FGM
Domestic Abuse
- Podcast: Children never just witness Domestic Abuse by NSPCC Learning
- Podcast: Domestic Abuse by Safeguarding Days
- Podcast: Experiences of domestic abuse as a child and mental ill health by SafeLives
- Podcast: Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control
- Video: Real Life Domestic Abuse Story Ted Talk – Emma Murphy
- Video: Why Doesn’t she just Leave? Women’s Refuge – Women’s Refuge
- Video: Domestic Abuse & COVID-19 – Anna Tomlinson
- Video: Domestic Abuse Act 2021- Wakefield Strategic Domestic Abuse Team
Forced Marriage, Honour Based Abuse & FGM
- e-learning; Female Genital Mutilation – Recognising & Preventing FGM by Home Office & Virtual College
- Video: Forced Marriage & Honour Based Abuse – Kerry Murphy
- Podcast: FileOn4 Mama Sylla's FGM Story
- Online Training: Awareness of Forced Marriage Virtual College
- Online Training: Building Confidence to challenge Honour Based Abuse and Forced Marriage
Emotional Wellbeing
- Podcast: Talking mental health (how to talk to children about it) Dr Rangan Chatterjee talks to Matt Haigh
- Podcast: How our childhood shapes every aspect of our health with Dr Gabor Mate by Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
- WF-I-CAN.co.uk accessing the new children and young people’s support website – Denise Wheatman & Emily Castle
- Video: Brief Introduction to Resilience Framework – Denise Wheatman & Emily Castle
- Video: Children & Young People Emotional Well Being – Denise Wheatman & Emily Castle
- Video: Hunger: A practical resource for family practitioners on physical and emotional hunger – Karen Thomas, Registered Dietitian
- Video: Self-Harm – An animated film by young people NHS Foundation Trust – Made for Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
- Video: Sleep and Health: Optimising sleep potential for physical and emotional wellbeing – Sarah Kendrick
- Video: Words Can Hurt - by Childline
- Compass Website: Emotional & Mental Wellbeing service, across the Wakefield District for Children & Young People
LGBTQ+
- LGBTQ+ people and domestic abuse
- Podcast: Safeguarding Transgender Children
- Video: Mike’s Story by Barnardo’s
- Webinars: Working with the Seldom Heard the LGBTQ+ community by Working Together Training & Development Programme
- NEW: Wakefield Council Inclusive Language glossary
Masterclasses
- Video: Serious Youth Violence (SGW June 2024)
- Video: Trauma: A Lifespan Perspective (SGW June 2023)
- Video: Perplexing Presentations and Fabricated or Induced Illness (Feb 2023)
- Video: NWG Transitions from adolescence to adulthood (SGW June 2022)
- Video: Children Vulnerable to Exploitation (March 2022)
- Video: Safeguarding Babies & Infants (Sep 2021)
Neglect
- Video: Michelle's story - LSCBx3
- Video: 'How to' guide to the WSCP Neglect Toolkit – Karron Zelei
- Video & Slides: Child Neglect and Poverty Aware Practice – Dr Susannah Bowyer
- Theraputic interventions after abuse or neglect
- Protective Factors in Neglect
- Tools, training and reading material
Online Safety
- Podcast: Groomed through gaming: The murder of teenager Breck Bednar by Safeguarding Days
- Podcast: How social media could be making you ill by Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
- Video: Summary of Pixels from a Crime Scene: It’s not too big a problem to solve by Internet Watch Foundation
- Video: Kids Educating Kids – West Yorkshire Police
- Video: Using the Internet Safely – West Yorkshire Police
- Video: The Dark Web, Explaining some of the Mysteries – David Tidman
- Video: Responding to Online Challenges by UK Safer Internet Centre
- Online safety live events
- Interactive 4-7s Website featuring Jessie & Friends
Professional Curiosity & Challenge
- WSCP Professional Curiosity & Challenge Learning Briefing
- YHMAST Professional Curiosity Conference Sessions, March 2023:
- Contemporary research around the importance of professional curiosity
- Supervising a professionally curious workforce
- Understanding the digital world
- Disrupting the digital world
- Disguised compliance
Public Health Resources via Wakefield Traded Services
Here you will find resources and information from the Public Health Team.
Radicalisation / Prevent
- e-Learning; Prevent Awareness by HM Government. Home Office
- Video: Prevent Awareness in Wakefield District
- Resources: Act Early & Referral Forms
Safeguarding training, approaches & processes
Safeguarding Training
- Video: Working Together to Safeguard Children – Basic Awareness Karron Zelei
- Face-to-Face Training: Working Together - A Shared Responsibility
Approaches and Processes to help Safeguard Children and Families in Wakefield
- Resource: Giving evidence in court
- Video: Early Help Support Planning, A case study showing how a SMART Safety Plan was developed to improve outcomes for families – Ellie Cooper
- Video: Multi-agency Safety Planning – SMART Planning – Karron Zelei
- Video: How Restorative Approaches have been used in CYPS and the Story so far… – Elloise Beever
- Video: The Wakefield Resilience Framework, produced for Wakefield Public Health and Young Lives Consortium
- Video: What is the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)?
- Video: Working with Fathers & Male Carers – Martin Honnor
- Video: Managing Allegations Against Staff
Self Harm & Suicidal Ideation
- e-Learning: We need to talk about Suicide by Health Education England & Public Health England
- e-Learning: Talking to Your Children About Emotional Resilience and Self-Harm by Virtual College & Self-Harm UK
- Training: Suicide Awareness from Zero Suicide Alliance
- Video: Understanding Non-Suicidal Self Injury
- Video: Turning to Self-Harm
- Video: Self-Harm Animation
SEND
- Video: What are the challenges for professionals? Kate Reed and Kim Liddle
- Video: The Silent Child by Slick Films
- WESAIL Service Information
Substance Misuse
- Cannabis Edibles & Safeguarding Children and Young People by West Yorkshire Police Drugs Intelligence Team
- Who's in Charge? - Alcohol Awareness Campaign
- Smokefree Wakefield - the latest advice from Public Health
- Turning Point Inspiring Futures links
- Talk to Frank resource
Trauma
- Working definition of trauma informed practice by GOV.UK
- e-Learning: ACEs – Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences by Public Health, Home Office, West Midlands PCC, West Midlands Violence Prevention Alliance
- TED Talk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Dr Nadine Burke Harris
- Video: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by Public Health Wales
- Video: Childhood Trauma and the Brain by UK Trauma Council
- Video: Child Trauma: Repl’ACE’ing the context by Cath Knibbs
- Video: Poly Vagal motorway of wellness by Cath Knibbs
- Video: Understanding trauma: Learning Brain vs Survival Brain
Wakefield Families Together Leadership Programme 2024
- Wakefield Families Together Leadership Programme Resource Page
Young Babies & Infants
- Presentation: Infant Mental Health by Jane Turner – Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
- Podcast: The Invisible Voice of Children NSPCC
- Video: ICON: Babies Cry, You Can Cope! Programme by Sarah Booth
- Video: Multi-Agency Pregnancy & Assessment Group (MAPLAG) – Angela South
- Video: Safer Sleep for Babies by Lullaby Trust
- Video: Safer Sleeping: reducing the risk of sudden infant death due to ‘Overlay’ – Sharon Harvey
Young People
- NEW Mental Capacity and Deprivations of Liberty for those aged 16 and above Webinar by Neil Allen 2024
- Podcast: How to build effective relationships with adolescents
- Presentation: Young Carers
- Video: Identifying Young Carers & how to access support in Wakefield
- Video: Pornography, Impact, Research & Resources – Vicki Maybin
- Video: Risk, Resilience & Relationships: Safeguarding Adolescents into Adulthood – Dez Holmes
- Video: Safeguarding Teenagers – Sarah Henry
- Brook Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool
- NSPCC How to have difficult conversations with Children & Young People