Training for professionals

The harmful sexual behaviour online training aims to provide support to professionals:

• working with children and young people
• when responding to incidents or issues surrounding harmful sexual behaviours. 

Check details of Harmful sexual behaviour online training - SWGfl.

This multi-agency training is aimed at practitioners and volunteers who:

• work with families, especially those visiting families at home
• are not routinely giving safe sleep advice
• want to improve their knowledge and confidence.

All sessions are delivered via MS Teams.

• Wednesday 15 May, 10-11am
• Tuesday 18 June, 10-11am
• Wednesday 10 July, 10.30-11.30am.

To book a place or for further information please contact us at frimleyicb.safeguarding@nhs.net.

Sam Slack offers the following free webinars on Prevent duty.

• Online Prevent awareness workshop for staff working in the Education sectors - 23 April - 10.30am to 12noon.
• A free webinar event for FE Skills providers subject to the Prevent duty - 1 May and 16 July - 10.30 to 12noon.

Check details and book for the Sam Slack webinars on EventBrite.

LGfL offers the Prevent duty for School Safeguarding course on 6 June, 9 to 11am.

• Check details and book for the LGfl Prevent duty course.

Slough Safeguarding Partnership offers:

• Difficult conversations regarding neglect in children’s safeguarding, including the use of the thresholds and toolkit - 23 and 24 April.

Check details and book on Slough Safeguarding Partnership website.

Charlie Waller Trust offer free mental health webinars to all staff and any parents/carers.

The webinars are presented by expert mental health trainers and guest speakers who come from a wide range of professions and expertise. They explore practical, evidence-based information and strategies!  

Webinar include:

• Helping your child understand their emotions and practical strategies to help.
• Spotting signs that new students are struggling settling in and how to support.
• Self harm - spotting the signs and providing support.
• Knowing when a friends struggling and understanding how to help.
• Spotting signs that a young person is struggling with their mental health.
• Supporting young people experiencing thoughts of suicide - 23 April.
• Anxiety in young people: spotting the signs and supportive strategies - 25 April.

Check details and book for Charlie Waller Trust mental health webinars. 

campaign for learning offers the following free workshops.

• Networking event: Family financial resilience - 23 April. Join online for this networking event to share ideas and resources that support family financial resilience.
• Cultivating resilience - 7 May. Interactive online workshop on strategies for supporting families in times of change.

Check details and register for campaign for learning workshops.

Are you interested in learning essential, life-saving first aid skills to help in an emergency? If so, SCVS offers a course for you!

This is an interactive workshop, run by an experienced British Red Cross educator, where you will:

• tackle four first aid skills and
• have the opportunity to ask questions.

The aim is to build confidence so you can help someone in a first aid emergency, using everyday objects that you have around you.

Date/time: Wednesdays, 11am to 12.30pm.

• 24 April - face to face
• 10 July 2024 - face to face
• 2 October - online link TBC.

Check details  and book on EventBrite.

• The Youth-led LGBTQ+ professional training programme - Spectrum, Brighter Futures Together - 30 April.

• LGBTQIA+ awareness and inclusivity training - Slough CVS and WAM Get Involved (EventBrite) - 14 May.

This Mum Moves is a CPD endorsed educational programme for professionals.

The programme offers training and resources to equip you with:

• knowledge

• skills

• confidence

to discuss physical activity during pregnancy and after childbirth.

• ​Check details of the Ambassador programme.

The Mum Moves Ambassador networking event is on:

• Wednesday15 May, 9.30am to 12.30pm, online via Zoom.

This event is FREE for This Mum Moves Ambassadors!

• Register your interest for This Mum Moves networking event 2024.

For queries, please contact training@ihv.org.uk.

Slough CVS and WAM Get Involved offer a workshop on effective communcation skills.

It includes:

• effective communication skills
• handling challenging conversations
• redirecting conversations
• showing respect in communication
• conflict management
• managing difficult situations
• handling different opinions
• assertiveness in communication
• interactive format with opportunities for questions and answers.

Date: Tuesday 21 May, 1 to 2.30pm.

Venue: Slough Borough Council, Observatory House, 25 Windsor Road, Slough SL1 2EL.

Trainer, Lisa Cunningham, will be on Zoom.

• Check details and book for Effective Communication Skills workshop on EventBrite.

• Check Oxford Brain Story free online course is for professionals.

PICT offer:

• consultation
• training
• support

to staff who work with people with complex emotional needs or personality disorders. 

Check details n Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust website.

Virtual College offers free online training courses in:

• Safeguarding children
• Health and well-being
• Careers Advice.

Check Virtual College free online courses.

The Travistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust offers courses to:

• develop your capacity for skillful intervention
• give you a deeper understanding of the complex difficulties children and families experience
• build up your ability for critical reflection and resilience.

Check details on Travistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust website.

SafeCall offer webinars to share knowledge and provide advice to professionals about county lines, child criminal exploitation and missing.

• Check SafeCall's upcoming webinars.

Check information on Spice Vapes from Drug Science.

You can also attend a free online parent, carer and teacher drug awareness session each Wednesday at 7.30pm.

• Every Wednesday - 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Join on Zoom.

• Meeting ID: 870 6929 9511.
• Passcode: 283623.

CAMHS offers the Spring 2024 resources and webinar programme for:

• education settings and
• wider partners

in East Berkshire.

Please note: This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Please go to our accessibility statement for more information.

• Check details of CAMHS Spring 2024 resources and webinar programme (PDF). 

Early Help offers the following practitioner training that can be tailored to the needs of your service and team structure.

What is parental conflict? What can Slough do about parental conflict? (2 part workshops) (2 hours total)

• Part 1 - introduction to parental conflict, the causes and the impact on children
• Part 2 - covers the interventions available, referral pathways and a closer look at the interventions themselves.

The spectrum of conflict (1 hour and 30 minute workshop)

• This workshop is delivered with Rachel Axtell – Domestic Abuse practitioner From Slough Borough Council.
• We discuss the importance of support for parental conflict and the differences from domestic abuse in the context of Slough and its residents.
• We also have an informal conversation about embedding within daily practice and available support for vulnerable families. 

OnePlusOne digital interventions

The sessions aim to enhance your knowledge, understanding, skills, and confidence to work with parents.

By the end of the training you will be able to:

• raise parents’ awareness of the issue of parental conflict.
• use digital resources to help parents recognise conflict.
• enable parents to develop positive communication skills and helpful conflict behaviours.

Early Help can also:

• offer case consultations to practitioners who would like to gain further clarification on case direction for complex cases.  
• attend team meetings to raise awareness of parental conflict and the support available for families.
• devise a bespoke package of support for your organisation that suits you needs.

For details contact Stacy Thomas, Reducing Parental Conflict Co-Ordinator for Targeted Early Help at Slough Children First:

• call 07717 356666.
• email stacy.thomas@sloughchildrenfirst.co.uk.

Turning Point offers free training for professionals in Slough on substance and alcohol addiction.

On the last Thursday of every month from 11am to 12noon, via Teams. No need to book!

Learn about:

• the myths and facts
• different treatment pathways, to support recovery. offered by the Young People Service, Rough Sleepers Community Hub and START 
• the peer mentor and volunteer service and how to get involved
• how to improve your personal skills to motivate and encourage clients into treatment
• referrals and why not everyone succeeds in treatment the first time
• the Turning Point team.

For details email START@Turning-point.co.uk (FAO Trevor).

School Professionals Online Training (SPOT) aims to increase understanding of eating disorders.

The training helps you to:

• spot the early signs in children of school age
• talk to a pupil exhibiting signs of the disorder
• engage with their families
• support pupil and family to seek medical assessment.

Check details on SPOT training on Beat website.