This informative and interactive session will help practitioners develop a greater understanding of how children and young people may be exploited and the impact trauma can have on their lives. The course explores how a trauma-informed approach can support better outcomes for young people and their families.
You will learn about:
Safeguarding starts with understanding neurodiversity. Recognising individual needs can help reduce vulnerability and improve outcomes for children and young people.
A flexible and practical training programme covering:
Detached Youth Training offers a fantastic opportunity to strengthen your engagement skills, broaden your understanding of detached youth work and learn effective ways to reach and support young people in their own communities
This year's adult safeguarding conference will focus on ensuring that the voices, wishes and lived experiences of adults remain at the heart of safeguarding practice. Through inspiring keynote speakers, interactive workshops and contributions from people with lived experience, practitioners will explore how we can strengthen safeguarding and improve outcomes for adults across Manchester.
Why attend?
Join the MSP Children's Forum for safeguarding updates, shared learning and multi-agency practice discussions. The Manchester Safeguarding Partnership (MSP) Children's Forum brings together professionals from across the partnership to share learning, explore emerging issues, and strengthen multi-agency approaches to safeguarding children and families across Manchester.
This half-day course provides a detailed understanding of the safeguarding duties and responsibilities for Trustees.
Course content includes:
This session will look at the legislation, and what trustees need to know and do. It will also look at how best to apply it in a community building setting where you may be hiring space but have little direct interaction with the vulnerable people attending the activities.
Challenging Identity: How Does Intersectionality Impact Our Capacity to Make Safeguarding Personal?
What happens when a person’s identity is shaped by multiple experiences, characteristics, and communities?
How can understanding intersectionality help us make safeguarding more person-centred and inclusive?
Moving beyond assumptions and enabling informed decision-making: The Where I Want to Live Toolkit.
This seminar explores how we can move beyond assumptions about what people with learning disabilities want for their future and instead create opportunities for genuine choice, voice and control. Through the Where I Want to Live Toolkit, participants will discover an innovative, co-produced digital resource designed to help people with learning disabilities explore, discuss and express their wishes about where and how they live as adults.
Join Ann Craft Trust CEO Stuart Sale as they launch Safeguarding Adults Week 2026 and come together to explore this year's theme, Every Voice. Every Choice.
The campaign explores how co-production and Making Safeguarding Personal can empower people, strengthen safeguarding practice, and ensure individuals have greater choice and control in decisions that affect their lives.
This opening session will provide an overview of the week ahead, including the daily themes, free online seminars, campaign activities, and opportunities to get involved.