Masterclass: Neglect

Neglect is a complex and difficult area to work with families on particularly when there are multiple children of different ages and thresholds are not clear. Masterclass offers a day’s experiential learning on this complex area and introduces a variety of child protection issues for reflection: best practice; communication; assessment; mental illness; disguised compliance; impact of parental behaviours on the child; recognising the signs and symptoms of emotional abuse and neglect; health and hygiene; child develop-ment; teenage carer; men; levels of risk; thresh-olds; considerations of effective multi-agency working, shared approach and follow up; how to improve support and care; assessment of the safety of children living in abusive/ neglectful situations.

There are no prerequisites to attending these masterclasses: all participants are given a good grounding in the application of simulations in a child protection setting. However, participants should be aware that these courses form part of a series of workshops available from the Centre for Child Protection.

About the Centre for Child Protection

The Centre creates learning opportunities for all professionals involved in child protection and is led and informed by a team of experts who have many years of experience working with traumatised children, young people and their families. The Centre is one of excellence and innovation in training, research and practice, recognised by the Times Higher Education Awards 2013 as a nominee for ‘Outstanding ICT Initiative’, and its teaching staff received the University of Kent's Social Science Faculty Teaching Prize (October 2014) for their internationally-recognised work on the distance learning MA Advanced Child Protection.

Bespoke training solutions for your organisation

We can run training for your staff or students at your workplace. The session can be adapted to suit your training needs and a programme will be devised after consultation with you.