Dates:
2024: 10th September & 16th October
Course Details:
- Time: 9.15am arrival for registration, 9.30am - 13:00pm
- Venue: Zoom
- Trainer: Rod Landman (Arc England)
- Targeted Service: Targeted Services – Business & Transformation, Community Wellbeing, Disability Team, Family Support & Intervention, Children Looked After, Commissioned Services, Older People & HSW, Quality Standards, Vulnerable People Team, Youth Justice Service, Foster Carers, Conwy Workforce Development & Learning Team
- Target Group: Learning disability supporting staff – all ages, Autism supporting staff – all ages
This workshop is designed to raise awareness of online harms (especially grooming) for those with a learning disability and autistic people. It is aimed at social care support staff.
The workshop draws on learning from:
- ARC projects about mate crime, sexual exploitation, and social media grooming for radicalisation and extremism.
- Court of Protection case law.
- Bond & Phippen: ‘Safeguarding Adults Online’ [book]
Workshop content
- Background: what are we afraid of?
- Radicalisation, learning disability and autism
- ‘Get SMART’ project findings
- Online harms: what are the risks?
- Grooming: risk factors, process and indicators
- What does and doesn’t work?
- Key tools: MCA and Risk Enablement
What next?
The course is delivered online.
For further information, or if you have booked a place on the course and have not received notification to attend please contact the Workforce Development & Learning Administrative Team. Please do not turn up to any course unless you have received notification of your place as the event may be fully booked.