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Parental Substance Misuse

Training

Inhouse

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Methodology

    Inhouse

  • Duration

    1 Day

You will be able to recognise the effects of drugs and/or alcohol on parenting capacity and the effect this has on children, identify children at risk, recognise that some parents will administer drugs to their children and the consequences of this, assess within a multi agency framework the risk to children whose parents misuse drugs and alcohol, and gain an increased awareness of the various services in place to assist in supporting families, parents and children. Suitable for: This course is suitable for you if you work with families where there are substance misuse issues and will be of particular interest to probation workers, police officers, substance misuse workers, domestic abuse workers, family centre workers and NHS staff.

About this course

You do not have to have prior knowledge of safeguarding to take part in this course.

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Dr Sarah  Carlick

Dr Sarah Carlick

Managing Director

In the delivery of safeguarding through conferencing, training and organisational reform I offer customers opportunities to ‘think outside the box’. This is complimented by my birds eye strategic vision and overview. My bespoke services and solutions meets client’s needs being adaptable and flexible maximising their people and resources. I am outcome driven with evidence for change for safer practice.

Course programme

Parental Substance Misuse is increasingly being seen as a contributory factor in cases of serious harm to children and young people. You will explore some of the myths of substance use and improve your skills to enable effective child protection work in this complex area.

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Parental Substance Misuse

Price on request