Upcoming Training Sessions
Find out about upcoming training sessions and how to book your place on them.
Free safeguarding training
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Understanding the impact of cultural stigmas on mental health
and wellbeing
Monday 26 January 2026 | 12:00-13:30
Delivered by Marcia Rice
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Explore the impact of cultural stigmas and taboos on the presentation and responses to mental distress and professional engagement
Understanding self-harm in children and young people
Thursday 29 January 2026 | 10:00-11:30
Delivered by Cath Pickles
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Consider the systemic impact of self-harm on children and young people
and their families, challenge myths, and learn the facts.
Silenced, blamed, overlooked - rethinking girls, gangs, and adultification
Friday 30 January 2026 | 12:00-13:30
Delivered by Junior Smart
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This interactive session explores how adultification bias shapes the
safeguarding of young girls involved in or around gangs.
Becoming anti-racist
Tuesday 3 February 2026 | 10:00-11:30
Delivered by Social Matters
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This training is designed to provide a space for delegates to deepen their
anti-racist knowledge and engage in discussion and reflection
When children harm the parent they love
Wednesday 4 February 2026 | 13:00-14:30
Delivered by Aleks Tokarz-Tyler
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Exploring how some children’s aggression towards a parent may be rooted in
trauma, fear, confusion, and loyalty conflicts
Keeping our kids and young people safe online
Monday 9 February 2026 | 10:00-11:00
Delivered by Gabriella Russo
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How to support children and young people in making the most of the online world while avoiding potential dangers.
Historical and intergenerational traumas in global majority families
Tuesday 10 February 2026 | 10:00-11:30
Delivered by Marcia Rice
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Examining how historical and intergenerational traumas occur and impact Black and global majority children and families.
Keeping patients safe from chemically induced crisis
Wednesday 11 February 2026 | 12:30-13:30
Delivered by Debi Roberts
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How safer prescribing conversations can reduce medication-related suicide
risk, protect patients, and support prescribers facing moral injury.
Threshold Document
Thursday 12 February 2026 | 10:00-12:00
Delivered by Emma Rodriguez
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This session focuses on increasing the awareness and usefulness of the Pan
London Threshold Document to safeguard children.
Adultification - an intersectional lens on vulnerability and risks
Tuesday 24 February 2026 | 12:00-13:30
Delivered by Marcia Rice
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Examining adultification and the impact on children from intersectional perspectives including ethnicity, culture, and neurodiversity.
Hidden drivers of youth violence - and how we respond
Friday 27 February 2026 | 12:00-13:30
Delivered by Junior Smart
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Blending lived experience, frontline insights, and research evidence to
unpack both the visible and hidden drivers of youth violence.
Information sharing guidance - safeguarding children
Tuesday 3 March 2026 | 10:00-12:00
Delivered by Emma Rodriguez
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This session will clarify the requirements of information sharing as outlined in the London Safeguarding Child Safeguarding Procedures.
Incels - A deep dive into extreme misogyny
Friday 6 March 2026 | 09:30-10:30
Delivered by Stella Frangleton
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As incel ideology becomes more mainstream, we must understand its
impacts on young people’s mental health and safety.
Exploring the ripple effects of serious youth violence
Monday 9 March 2026 | 10:00-11:30
Delivered by Marcia Rice
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This session will explore the prevalence and short and long term impact of
serious youth violence on young people, peers, and communities.
DBS - eligibility and duty to refer
Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 10:00-12:30
Delivered by Kiran Rehal
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Explaining the purpose of the DBS, the services and products it provides, and
the part it plays in safer recruitment.
Comprehensive insights into coercive control - adult and child perspectives
Friday 13 March 2026 | 10:30-11:30
Delivered by Lis Hoyte
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Examine how coercive and controlling behaviour affects children and adults,
and explore the hidden tactics used to gain power and control.
Beyond cultural and racial bias for implementing anti-racist practice
Monday 16 March 2026 | 10:00-11:30
Delivered by Marcia Rice
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Explore the wider systemic impact of racism on experiences of Black and
global majority children and families beyond cultural bias.
Gaming and Gambling by YGAM
YGAM deliver training on safeguarding children in relation to gaming and gambling.
Unlike other sessions offered by LSCP, these are designed specifically for
different areas of work. Please book on the session that is most appropriate
for you.
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Supporting children in care | 09:30-12:00 | Book your place
Teachers and youth workers | 10:00-12:00 | Book your place
Social care professionals | 10:00-12:30 | Book your place
Healthcare professionals | 13:00-15:30 | Book your place
Community and faith leaders | 13:00-15:30 | Book your place
For more information, please visit the YGAM website or contact Lauren
Buckley, Programme Engagement Manager, on laurenbuckley@ygam.org.
Prevent - radicalisation into violent extremism
Wednesday 18 March 2026 | 09:30-12:30
Delivered by Sabera Ahsan
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Learn how to identify people at risk of radicalisation into violent extremism
and how to respond appropriately.
Overview of hidden harm and harmful traditional practices
Friday 20 March 2026 | 09:30-10:30
Delivered by Bal Howard
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An hour's taster session giving a top-level awareness overview of hidden harm and harmful traditional practices.
Love or leverage in child criminal exploitation
Friday 20 March 2026 | 12:00-13:30
Delivered by Junior Smart
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Unpack how intimate and romantic relationships are weaponised to exploit
young people in the context of child criminal exploitation.
Manosphere and misogyny
Tuesday 24 March 2026 | 09:30-10:30
Delivered by Stella Frangleton
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Understand the ‘manosphere’ and concerns around this area. This session
follows on from our sessions on incels and misogyny.
Understanding Prevent and mixed unclear unstable ideologies (MUU)
Wednesday 25 March 2026 | 09:30-12:30
Delivered by Sabera Ahsan
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Explore MUU ideologies, online harms, and vulnerabilities. Understand
Channel and support pathways through real-world case studies