Please consider this a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. provide the following information on the modern slavery training you offer to staff:

1. Do you provide modern slavery training to your staff, or cover modern slavery as part of a wider training (eg. Adult safeguarding, children’s safeguarding etc)?
Yes stand alone and covered as part of other training.

2. If you provide modern slavery training, is it limited to one 'type' of modern slavery or is it general? (e.g. 'modern slavery', or on a specific type like ‘child’ or ‘criminal’ exploitation?)
Various learning opportunities are provided both specific subject areas and also within other learning opportunities subjects include: modern slavery, human trafficking, NRM reporting mechanisms, county lines, cuckooing, Prevent, Child sexual exploitation, criminally exploited children, contextual safeguarding/harm outside the home, online exploitation, coercive control etc.

3. Is your modern slavery training open to all staff?
Some training is available to all staff across the organization, other training is primarily for children and adult service professionals and partners working directly with children, young people, their families and adults within our LA area.

4. Which of the following training formats do you offer?:
• e-learning / on-demand module,
• classroom learning (remote or in-person), or webinar/guest talk. If webinar/guest talk or classroom learning, please share when these trainings have taken place within the past two years.
We offer learning resources including practice guidance, tools, reading and research material, e-learning, virtual, face to face and webinar opportunities. We also offer Classroom learning in person with expert training from an external organisation. 4th July 2022 x 2 sessions, 16th October 2023 x 2 sessions.

e-learning
• Universal Safeguarding (Adults & Childrens)
• Joint safeguarding awareness
• Introduction to child sexual exploitation
• Prevent referrals
• Modern Slavery Awareness
• Adult Social Care Legal update

Virtual or F2F events:
• Safeguarding Children Level 2 – Virtual - run regularly approx. 3 -4 sessions per year - next session 29th Jan 2025
• Safeguarding Children level 2 – face to face - run regularly approx. 3 -4 sessions per year – next session 27th March 2025
• Adult safeguarding level 1 – run regularly every 1 – 2 months – next session 9th Jan 2025
• Adult Safeguarding level 2 - run regularly approx. 3 – 4 sessions per year – next session 16th Dec 2024
• Adult Safeguarding level 3 – run regularly every 2-3 months - next session 11th Feb 2025
• Exploitation - Modern Slavery and human trafficking - virtual - 21st Nov 2022
• Exploitation – County Lines, Cuckooing, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking - virtual – 21st Nov 2022
• Modern Slavery awareness - virtual 23rd Jan 2025
• 03/06/2024 – Cuckooing – Adult Safeguarding
• 03/07/2014 – Grooming – Adult Safeguarding
• 19/09/2024 – EMRAC (Exploitation and Missing Risk Assessment Conference) Expansion to include 18 - 25 year olds and Transitional Safeguarding

Examples of Webinars:
• 24 May 2023 - Child Sex Trafficking in England and Wales: Child Protection Response - Dr Paul Nelson, Anglia Ruskin University
• 20 June 2023 - Emerging Forms of Coercive Control Prof Marianne Hester, University of Bristol; Dr Natasha Mulvihill, University of Bristol; Dr Nadia Aghtaie, University of Bristol; Dr Mary Wakeham, Refuge4Pets; Sarah-Jane Walker, University of Bristol
• 11th July 202 - Creating Stable Futures: Human Trafficking, Participation, and Outcomes for Children - Dr Helen Connolly, University of Bedfordshire; Prof Patricia Hynes, Sheffield Hallam University
• 22nd Sept 2023 - Understanding the Relationship Between Risk and Harm: A Strengths-Based Approach to Child Protection - James Blewett, King's College London
• 15 May 2024 - Participation of Young People in Fast-paced Policy Development: Learning From the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Programme; Dr Camille Warrington, University of Bedfordshire; Dr Alice Yeo, University of Bedfordshire; Lucy Belcher, The Children's Society; Nerys Anthony, The Children's Society
• 18 June 2024 - Reimagining Collective Responses to Significant Harm: The Development of Child Protection Pathways for Risk Outside of the Home; Dr Carlene Firmin,University of Durham
• 27 June 2024 - Contextual Safeguarding and Inequalities: From Parks and Peer Groups to Poverty and Patriarchy; Dr Lauren Wroe, University of Durham

Examples of Resources and recordings:
• Behind Closed Doors: A Storytelling Legal and Empirical Analysis of Human Trafficking Risks in Home Office HotelsCompared to Other Accommodation for Unaccompanied Children and Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK (July 2024)
• Framing Modern Slavery : A communication guide.
• Overcoming cultural barriers to prevention of modern slavery and protection of survivors .
• Identification of adults with lived experience of modern slavery in the UK.
• Practice Principles for responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm – recording Joeseph Kiff, University of Bedfordshire; Rachel Vieth, Research in Practice.
• Contextual Safeguarding and Inequalities : from parks and peer groups to poverty and patriarchy; Recording Dr Lauren Wroe, Durham University
• No Further Action: Contextualising Social Care Decisions for Children Victimised in Extra-Familial Settings
• ‘Vulnerable’ Kids Going Country: Children and Young People’s Involvement in County Lines Drug Dealing
• Contextual Safeguarding and Child Protection: Rewriting the Rules
• Learning About Online Sexual Harm

5. What is the duration of the training (if you have access to this information)?
Various ranging from 30 – 40 minute, 1 hour – 2 hour e-learning to full and half day sessions.

6. Does the training contain any of the following themes? Please highlight which are covered:
• Survivors’ immigration status
• Changes under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022
• How to secure legal representation or emergency accommodation/support for potential victims
• How to complete a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) referral form -How people with protected characteristics (for example, people of different genders, ages, sexualities, nationalities, and those who are disabled) may experience exploitation
• The need for cultural awareness and sensitivity (a case study/image does not inherently count, unless there is a specific mention or exploration of relevant cultural issues or barriers)
The below are covered at WBC:
• Survivors’ immigration status
• How to secure legal representation or emergency accommodation/support for potential victims
• How to complete a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) referral form -How people with protected characteristics (for example, people of different genders, ages, sexualities, nationalities, and those who are disabled) may experience exploitation
• The need for cultural awareness and sensitivity (a case study/image does not inherently count, unless there is a specific mention or exploration of relevant cultural issues or barriers)