Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership is committed to ensuring that the wider children’s workforce are operating in an environment where learning and improvement underpins their work with children and families.
The 'Learning Zone' is a dedicated area where organisations and practitioners can access the wide variety of fully funded multi-agency events and resources, including virtual courses, webinars, workshops and eLearning materials for professionals working with children and families who live in Cumbria. These events bring professionals together to develop knowledge and skills and emphasise the benefits of working together to deliver positive outcomes for children and families. The CSCP have produced a Learning and Improvement Framework to support organisations to be clear about their responsibilities, and to help them to learn from experience and improve services as a result.
All organisations working with children and families are responsible for ensuring that staff receive appropriate safeguarding training relevant to their role and responsibilities. To assist organisations in fulfilling this responsibility, CSCP has produced a guide
Discover the different types of safeguarding training, which is most appropriate and what the training should cover, depending on your role.
- this document is currently under review
Some courses are through our eLearning platform (Level 1 Safeguarding and Level 2 Safeguarding - basic eLearning courses), to access this you will need to register your account.
Explore courses such as Level 1 Safeguarding Children and Young People, Child Exploitation and Extra Familial Harm and other topics.
How to register for an eLearning account or log into your account
Safeguarding Responsibilities, Thresholds and Referral Procedures (Children)
This online blended course is designed to help participants understand safeguarding responsibilities, thresholds and referral procedures.
Find out more about Level 2 training and sign up
Please note - this course is being refreshed and will be available in the new year
Safeguarding in Practice - Working Together to Safeguard Children - Multi-agency approach to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of children - Designated Safeguarding Leads - Only (Level 3 Training)
This workshop is part of a programme of learning events that practitioners and professionals, working with children, can access to support their learning at level 3. A full programme of events will be available for staff to access according to their learning needs.
This is a prevalent topic for those working within children, young people and families, and this course aims to give an overview of what child exploitation (CE) really is. Within the course you will look at how to identify some of the signs that might be occurring when a child or young person is being exploited, county lines and the process of grooming. Guidance is also provided on the use of the framework when assessing for CE, and best practice for practitioners working with children and young people.
This training is aimed at those practitioners who are working with children and young people who are part of the development of plans for children or at risk or experiencing child exploitation.
Find out more about Level 1 and Level 2 and sign up.
The CSCP are delivering a lunch and learn and a twilight session on how to complete the 'child exploitation vulnerability checklist'. The session will take place on the following date/time.
To book your place or if you have any queries, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
All participants should join the session 5-10 minutes before the start time.
Join Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership on National Child Exploitation Day, Tuesday 18th March 2025, for an insightful Trauma, Exploitation and Offending session with Sosa Henkoma, in partnership with Dignifi. The session is open to anyone who is interested in finding out more about trauma, exploitation and offending.
For further details about this session please click on the following link/poster
Trauma, Exploitation and Offending session - poster
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
All participants should join the session 5-10 minutes before the start time.
Cumberland Council and Westmorland & Furness Council, in partnership with SafeLives, are offering the training opportunity to complete ‘Responding Well’ Domestic Abuse Training.
Find about more this course and sign up
Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP) are providing FREE Domestic Abuse Workshops across the County.
Find about this course and sign up
Westmorland Furness Council's Early Help Team and Domestic Abuse Team are delivering an awareness session to staff at schools, colleges and settings on specific domestic abuse topics. These awareness session are available to all staff with DSL responsibility or who work directly with families.
For more information, dates of sessions and how to book, please click on the link below.
Understanding the Impact of Domestic Abuse online course - Helps you to explain, describe and recognise the signs of domestic violence and neglect. It will also help you identify ways to supports victims, identify the ‘dos and don’ts’, recognise when it is appropriate to assist, know where and when to get help and be aware of best practice.
To access the course, log into your eLearning module
Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness Early Help Teams are reviewing their Early Help Training at present to reflect developments in their Early Help offers. There will be no multiagency Early Help training until September 2024 at the earliest. We can still offer bespoke training with your school or agency to ensure you have the current Early Help knowledge to support children and families in your Local Authority.
If you wish to discuss the possibility of bespoke training please get in touch with your Early Help Teams at either:
Cumberland Early Help Team early.help@cumberland.gov.uk
Westmorland and Furness Early Help Team early.help@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk
The aim of this training is to increase knowledge and enable practitioners to work more effectively with children, young people and their families using Early Help, and identify needs early to give all children the opportunity to thrive and succeed.
Find out more about the course and sign up
Have your say about Early Help. Enjoy the opportunity to ask questions and to continue to improve the Early Help experience for Cumbria’s children and families. Be involved in the conversation and be inspired, there will be networking opportunities and a range of stalls from partner agencies to browse.
In Cumbria, we believe mental health is everyone's responsibility. We strive to ensure that our workforce and communities are well-equipped to support children and young people (CYP) at every opportunity.
Find out more about the course and sign up
The CSCP are delivering training on Impact Chronology. The following session will be face to face workshops and the aim of the session is to enable practitioners to develop skills in using impact chronologies.
Important information - As of 1st April 2025, the CSCP will cease to exist. This means there will be two Safeguarding Partnerships for Cumbria - one based in the Cumberland area and one in the Westmorland and Furness area. Therefore, please see below training dates for each council area.
Cumberland
Westmorland & Furness
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Are you aware of your responsibilities in informing the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) of all allegations against adults who work with children ?
This bitesize session is an opportunity to meet the LADO team manager Paul Cooper who will explain your responsibility and how to inform the LADO as set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018.
No further dates are scheduled
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
All participants should join the training event 10 minutes before the start time to allow being admitted onto the course.
When booking onto this training please do not share the Microsoft Teams link with anyone else, as numbers are restricted. This has a serious impact on delivery of the training and the numbers attending.
For any queries about the course, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
As part of the CSCP launch of the Neglect Strategy, we are offering a range of bitesize master classes on a variety of aspects of neglect.
Each session will be delivered via Microsoft Teams by Rebecca Brown, Research in Practice (RIP) and will include a presentation of the most up to date research, opportunities for practitioners to reflect and share ideas with one another and resources to support practice.
No further dates are scheduled
A lunchtime learning session on Non Fatal Strangulation and Non Fatal Suffocation (NFS). This will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. The session is suitable for multiagency frontline professionals and those with safeguarding practice/policy development responsibilities.
The session aims to equip you with:
To book your place please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
The CSCP are delivering a virtual briefing session on Multi-Agency Online Safety Training, advice for Parents and Teachers.
No further dates are scheduled
Email: CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
A recording of our Multi-Agency Online Safety Training (advice for parents/carers and teachers) delivered in December is now available. Please click on the link below
Watch the recording on YouTube - CSCP Multi-Agency Online Safety Training (4 December 2024)
Safer Internet Day 2025 will take place on the 11th February 2025, with celebrations and learning based around the theme 'Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online'.
Further information to be published in due course.
This workshop is intended for all professionals working with children who wish to improve their knowledge of parental mental health and the impact on the child. There are also free learning course available.
Recovery Steps Cumbria are providing Parental Substance Misuse Training, this will explore the impact of substance misuse on adults and children.
No further dates are scheduled
To book your place please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
When booking onto this training please do not share the MS Teams link with anyone else, as numbers are restricted. This has a serious impact on delivery of the training and the numbers attending.
Professional Curiosity is the capacity and skills of communication to explore and understand what is happening for a person, rather than making assumptions or accepting things at face value.
Local and national reports, research and learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs), Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) and Children's Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPRs) highlight that practitioners working with adults, families and children need to be more professionally curious.
Professional Curiosity is the capacity and skills of communication to explore and understand what is happening for a person, rather than making assumptions or accepting things at face value. It requires skills of looking listening, asking direct questions and being able to hold difficult conversations. Professional Curiosity and challenge are a fundamental aspect of working together to keep adults and children safe from harm. This approach is important in helping to identify abuse and neglect which can be less obvious and can ensure that the right information is gathered and shared to assess both needs and risks. Being professionally curious is necessary to fully understand a situation and the risks an individual may face, which are not always immediately obvious.
Being more curious as professionals and 'digging deeper' into areas where there is little, or no information will help to inform assessments and empower you to influence key moments of decision making to reduce risks for children and adults. Escalating concerns that could cause drift, delay and a shift in focus from the child's or adult's best interests should be embraced and seen as effective care.
Professional Curiosity Multi-Agency Guidance for Practitioners.pdf (PDF, 647.79KB)
Please access the link below to a recorded learning session (YouTube video) about professional curiosity.
Transitional Safeguarding is an “approach to safeguarding adolescents and young adults fluidly” and builds on the best available evidence and learning from both children's and adult safeguarding practice.
Further to learning identified in the Kate SAR, which was undertaken by Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board (CSAB), the CSCP, in collaboration with CSAB, are facilitating a lunch and learn session to formally launch a Transitional Safeguarding Procedure for children and young adults at risk of exploitation.
Transitional Safeguarding & Exploitation Procedure: Launch Session - Tuesday 17th December 2024 (12noon – 1pm)
The procedure sets out the arrangements for young people aged 17.5 years and above, whose circumstances may mean that safeguarding adults' procedures would apply when they are 18.
Practitioners working with children and young adults are invited to attend this lunch and learn session, where there will be a walkthrough of the procedure.
Bookings are being taken via Eventbrite - please visit here to book your place
A trauma informed approach to safeguarding children in a multi-agency context.
This training is only for Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL's) in schools.
Unfortunately, no further sessions have been confirmed
The local framework covers the full range of single and multi-agency reviews and audits which aim to drive improvements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Working Together requires that the CSCP maintain a shared local learning and improvement framework across those local organisations working with children and families.
Review our Learning and Improvement Framework and Training Strategy here
The forums provide an opportunity to develop common practice across the county and help people who work with children and young people learn from each other, understand each other's roles and responsibilities and what local provision is available in each part of the county.
Find out more details of our practitioner forums and up and coming dates