Overview, the aim of the workshop
This 4 hour session workshop allows practitioners to explore and build on existing skills and knowledge for risk assessing and working with young people to complete safety plans.
The sessions will focus on equipping practitioners to risk assess and support young people to complete safety plans for themselves.
Black young people, particularly black boys, are experiencing additional risks, thus bringing more complex dynamics to the assessment process. Therefore practitioners and others need to be proficient in considering and weighing up issues such as individual, familial, community/contextual risks on the impact on the behaviours of the child/young person (aggression, bullying, violence, absconding and sexualised etc.), the vulnerability of the child/young person (low attainment, NEET, teenage pregnancy, exploitation, abuse, criminal activity, emotional issues, substance misuse, death and social exclusion etc. ), and environmental risks (parks, schools, community spaces, toilets, school routes, stairwells, bus terminus, play spaces, changing rooms etc.) all concerning the safeguarding/protection/ care of the young person.
We will discuss and identify ways forward for completing both a Dynamic Risk Assessment for the young person and completing a Safety Plan.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this series of workshops, participants will be able to:
- Explain the purpose of a Risk Assessment.
- Explain the purpose of a Safety Plan
- Describe the difference between a planned and dynamic risk assessment and the importance of the ongoing review of any work undertaken with the young person.
- Utilise Professional Curiosity more effectively.
- Demonstrate the use of tools to engage young back men.
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