SACPA/HIEDA – Safeguarding and Mental Health Risk Assessment

Course outline:

Mental health continues to be a top safeguarding concern for practitioners, children, young people and their families alike.  This webinar aims to look at key areas of managing mental health in house with a particular focus on mental health risk assessment and review. 

Training topics will include:

• Current challenges in managing mental health 
• When does mental health become a safeguarding issue 
• Mental health risk assessment 
• Thresholds for mental health support and access to specialist services 
• When to escalate or conduct an incident review. 

Learning outcomes:

• Ensure they are up to date with the latest challenges in managing mental health 
• Feel more confident about when mental health becomes a safeguarding issue 
• Increase knowledge and understanding of conducting a mental health risk assessment 
• Identify when escalation and incident review should take place. 

Audience: Mental health leads, counsellors, CBT practitioners, Safeguarding Leads, Deputy Safeguarding Leads, Health workers, chaplaincy staff, Governors, trustees, Senior Leaders

Unable to attend? A post webinar recording will be available for purchase. 

Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Cost:

• HIEDA/SACPA Member Rate: £90
• HIEDA/SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £45
• Non-member Rate: £180*

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Speaker:

Phill Beisty

Phill is a child psychotherapist in private practise as well as being a magistrate sitting in the child and family court with previous experience of being a safeguarding lead for a corporate mental health company, currently working in a range of settings.

Phill ‘s background as a therapist includes working with vulnerable children within maintained and independent special schools and specialist units schools.  Managing and delivering therapy services to a wide range of students with needs ranging from complex trauma and neurodiverse conditions involving leadership in safeguarding in the context of complex safeguarding and multi-agency arrangements.

Phill has a passion and strong belief that all children and young people should have the best start in life, and that they can access the appropriate therapy and safeguarding services to ensure this can happen.