Course Outline:
Safeguarding Children, young people and vulnerable adults is everybody’s responsibility. This raising awareness of Exploitation & Vulnerability course aims to raise your awareness of:
Vulnerability
Adverse childhood experiences
Organised Crime Groups/Gangs
Modern Day Slavery
Consent for sexual activity
Child Sexual Exploitation
Criminal Exploitation
Appropriate Language and use of
National Referral Mechanism
GDPR/Disclosure
Pathways/ Diversionary/sharing of intelligence
Learning Objectives
Highlight personal and situational factors of vulnerability, thereby raising the awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences and ways to address them
Definitions covering vulnerability, consent, criminal & sexual exploitation, modern day slavery, OCG’s and gangs
Develop an understanding of indicators that may show within various forms of exploitation/modern day slavery, with push and pull factors
Understand the National Referral Mechanism, knowing whether their agency is a first responder and if not how to raise concerns to ensure the vulnerable are protected
Identify the key considerations necessary when receiving a disclosure and the impact of trauma on any disclosure
Understand the individual’s professional accountability and responsibility for sharing under GDPR thereby recognising the importance of documentation and record keeping in the effective protection of those identified as vulnerable, ensuring non victim blaming language is used and relevant and appropriate intelligence/information is shared
Understand the processes to get the right help at the right time for the identified vulnerable person(s), being fully aware of agencies/services that people can be signposted to within the local borough, pathways inclusive of the PCC’s diversionary portfolio.