Oak Safeguarding
Rooting
for a Safer
Future
Background
'Gave really in-depth explanations and real life examples'
​Courses
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Designated Safeguarding Lead 2 Day Training
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Designated Safeguarding Lead Refresher Training
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Safer Recruitment
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Basis Safeguarding Children Training
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Governor Safeguarding Training
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Reducing and Managing Allegations Against Staff
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Safeguarding Training for Churches
'I feel so much more confident in dealing with safeguarding cases'
Viv Hammond is a successful Safeguarding Consultant and Trainer having over 20 years of experience being involved in tirelessly working to ensure children and young people are safe from harm.
Having experience as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in many educational settings, churches and councils, Viv is now supporting safeguarding as an independent Consultant and Trainer, devising and delivering training at all levels.
"Warm, positive, flexible and knowledgeable able to give real life examples that enrich all the course content"
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Safeguarding Audits
Ensuring you are compliant:
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whole school/college audit
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records audit​​
Need for safeguarding supervision
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When it comes to safeguarding and protecting children, embedding lessons from serious case reviews remains an ongoing challenge. The NSPCC (2015) has highlighted that:
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Staff were often focused on meeting organisation performance targets and, therefore, spent less time on reflection, critical thinking and the review of complex safeguarding and child protection cases.
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Safeguarding supervision provides a safe, confidential space in which supervisor and supervisee can reflect on challenging cases and difficulties encountered in practice. It needs to be provided in an environment in which staff can speak freely about the difficulties they have experienced (or are still experiencing) and receive emotional support from their supervisor.
Safeguarding and child protection isn’t easy and navigating through national and local procedures can be challenging. Oak Safeguarding is here to support you with training at all levels along with policy review and auditing to ensure staff feel confident in their responsibilities.
FAQs
Q. Do all sessions need to be face to face?
A. No, since lockdown I have developed all the courses to be virtual as well as
conducting individual and groups supervision sessions
Q. Do you review Child Protection Policies?
A. Yes with advisory reviews
Q. Will you carry out safeguarding audits?
A. Yes, however, the audits are completed only as the setting was observed on
the day and the information given, again the reports are advisory
Q. Do you deliver training on any other safeguarding subjects?
A. Yes, I have been asked to cover various subjects and have created bespoke
light-bite sessions for staff teams on such subjects as FGM, Breast Flattening,
CSE, Risk Assessments