Training

The session is for professionals working alongside children who are seeking asylum, such as Social Workers, Police Officers, Youth Justice Workers and others.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand pre, peri and post flight experiences

• Understand and apply relevant legislation, policy and guidance to working with unaccompanied children

• Apply knowledge of systems and processes to help unaccompanied children successfully navigate them

• Understand the impacts of migration and trauma and ways of working with children to aid positive mental health, wellbeing and belonging

• Create safe spaces for unaccompanied children to develop and grow
  

The session is for foster carers, supported lodgings providers and residential workers caring for children who are seeking asylum.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand pre, peri and post flight experiences

• Understand the systems and processes unaccompanied children experience and the help they may need to navigate them

• Understand the impacts of migration and trauma and ways of caring for unaccompanied children to aid positive mental health, wellbeing and belonging

• Create safe spaces for unaccompanied children to develop and grow

This session is for Social Workers undertaking Age Assessments and other professionals who are interested in guiding individuals through the process, including Appropriate Adults.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the impacts of Age Assessment on an age disputed individual and how to undertake ethical and holistic assessments that meet needs

• Understand the policy and guidance relevant to undertaking an Age Assessment

• Understand who can undertake Age Assessments, including the role of the National Age Assessment Board

• Understand and apply good practice principles, including Merton Compliant guidance, and guidance produced by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW)

• Understand and apply effective, timely and holistic assessment skills, utilising different evidence from a range of sources

• Understand the role of an Appropriate Adult in Age Assessment

• Understand the process for challenging an Age Assessment

The session is for professionals working alongside children who have or may have been trafficked, such as Social Workers, Police Officers, Youth Justice Workers and others.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand and apply legislation, policy and guidance relevant to working with children who have been trafficked

• Understand and apply knowledge of child trafficking indicators to aid identification of children at risk of trafficking

• Understand and apply knowledge of Safety Planning to create safe spaces for children

• Apply knowledge of systems and processes to help children who have been trafficked navigate them

• Understand and advocate for ways in which harm can be disrupted

• Understand the impacts of trafficking and how to aid positive mental health and wellbeing

• Create safe spaces for children who have been trafficked to develop and grow

The session is for foster carers, supported lodgings providers and residential workers caring for children who have or may have been trafficked.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand and implement Safety Plans to reduce the potential for further harm

• Understand the systems and processes to help children who have been trafficked navigate them

• Understand the impacts of trafficking and how to aid positive mental health and wellbeing

• Create safe spaces for children who have been trafficked to develop and grow

This session is for National Referral Mechanism (NRM) First Responders and professionals interested in the NRM process.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand and apply the legislation and guidance relevant to submitting a referral into the NRM

• Understand the benefits of the NRM for children and adults and related rights and entitlements

• Understand and gather relevant information to support an NRM referral

• Understand and apply effective assessment and report writing skills to ensure the submission of high quality NRM referrals

• Understand the intersection between NRM and immigration processes

• Understand the process for requesting a reconsideration of an NRM decision and how to gather additional information to submit

• Understand and implement the process for young people transitioning to 18 years to remain in the NRM with informed consent