OUR TRAINING
Managing a Child Protection Inquiry
One day working a case from first concern to resolution, before you have to do it for real
When a serious concern lands, your team's response in the first hours and days shapes everything that follows: the child's safety, the integrity of the inquiry, and what any external agency can later do with it.
This one-day onsite training takes your Child Protection team through that response in full, working realistic case studies with a safeguarding specialist, so the first time they manage an inquiry under pressure isn't the first time they've done it.
And because each training day is hosted by one school and open to others nearby, you work the cases alongside leads from schools in your region. That matters beyond the day itself. You compare the challenges you're each facing, share what's working, and build the relationships that prove their worth when a concern crosses school boundaries, because sometimes it does.
Managing a Child Protection Inquiry Training
The day is built around case work, not presentation. Early on, your team splits into groups and each receives an initial report. From there you work the inquiry step by step, separating fact from assumption, and watching how bias, everyone's, can quietly steer the direction a case takes.
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The case doesn't stand still. Twice during the day, new information arrives, first what your gathering uncovers, then further developments, and like a real inquiry, it won't always confirm what you thought you knew. Theory is woven through the day as the case demands it, so the learning lands at the moment you need it.
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No two training days run the same case, because each is written around the room. The host school chooses the focus and the key group, and the case is shaped to who attends: include your nurses and the case will carry medical challenges, include boarding staff and it moves into residential life, include governors and it tests oversight. Where the cohort varies widely, multiple cases run in parallel so everyone works the one closest to their own priorities.
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Focus areas hosts have chosen include:
- Managing difficult conversations with parents.
- Concerns involving staff, or the children of staff.
- Cultural complexity in discipline and disclosure.
- Current online risks.
WHAT
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Format: A one-day onsite training, hosted by a school and led by a safeguarding specialist.
Duration: 1 Day (7hrs)
Certification: Certificate of participation. The day is about working the case, not sitting a test.
Fee: Delegate prices vary by location and are shown on each event. Contact us about hosting.
Designed for safeguarding leads, deputies and the staff who would sit on your child protection team when an inquiry begins.
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Hosted by schools, open to all
Each training day is hosted by one school and open to others in the region.
Hosting is the best way to attend:
- Your whole team, at host rates. Bring as many of your staff as the day allows, at a significant discount on delegate places.
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- Your school, on the map. Hosting puts your school at the centre of safeguarding practice in your region, with leads from neighbouring schools coming to you.
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- Almost nothing to organise. You provide the room and tell schools nearby. We handle ticketing, logistics and lunch for visiting staff.
HOW
Very informative day. Sian Jorgensen from Encompass was a excellent presenter with relevant and useful information to teach and share. It was a well thought out day and also very useful to network and engage with other schools to share best practice, with regards to safeguarding.
Dan Reynolds
Head of School
Sian’s session was incredibly clear and easy to understand. The case studies were highly practical, reflecting situations that could realistically happen in my own surroundings. I’m truly glad I participated.
Tomoko Iohara
I found this training highly insightful and it really challenged my understanding of how prepared we are as a school to respond in an emergency.
Kirsten Cumming
School Nurse, International School Basel
Daniel Parjol
ISZL- Activities Co-Ordinator
I really liked the structure, content and pace of this training. A very useful day spent with hands-on training, going through case studies and best practice with other professional educators.
