Our training is for practitioners working in Bury. If you work in another locality, please check the training offer via the safeguarding partnership / board in the area that you work in.
Our training offer comprises a combination of face to face and virtual training. Please click through the courses below to find out more information regarding training, and to book a place. Most events are password protected, and therefore you will need to contact BSP@bury.gov.uk for password requests.
Training, Learning & Development
Our training is for practitioners working in Bury. If you work in another locality, please check the training offer via the safeguarding partnership / board in the area that you work in.
To apply for one of our courses, please click through the courses on this page and follow the links provided to book on a course. Please note, most events are password protected, and therefore you will need a password. If you are a member of the BSP, you should have received the passwords. If not, please contact the business unit: BSP@bury.gov.uk.
You will need to provide details of your organisation, role, and confirmation of your managers approval, and their email address. This enables us to verify who you are.
When applying for any of the training events please ensure you provide the correct contact details, including email address, so that we can confirm your place. Please ensure you provide your work email address in the first instance.
We understand that at times you may need to cancel places reserved on training courses due to a number of different reasons, however we do expect that applicants observe the following procedures:
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Prior to cancellations / withdrawals agencies should seek to send a colleague in their absence and advise us of this.
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All cancellations / withdrawals from training courses should be made at least 2 working days in advance of the course.
- Your ticket is cancelled via Eventbrite - this allows someone else to have your space. You can cancel your place via the email from eventbrite which contains your ticket. In instances where the event is not bookable via Eventbrite, you contact the relevant training provider.
We are currently in the process of updating our training strategy, this will be available in due course.
After attendance at one of our training courses, there will be an opportunity for you to provide an evaluation form. We will always ensure that there is a sufficient time available for you to do this after each course, so that we can continue to improve. The evaluation form is short and asks:
- What are the three main things you will take away from the training event?
- What else would you like to see included in this training event?
- Any other comments
We have also launched a longer term impact and evaluation of training to consider impact on children, young people, adults, carers and service users. This is via a very brief survey which is sent to all delegates 3-6 months after their attendance on a BSCP / BSAB course. In signing up to attend one of our courses, professionals are also signing up to support us in measuring impact. The impact form asks:
- Do you have any examples of how you have implemented the training in your practice?
- Do you have any examples of how the training has impacted on outcomes for children, young people or adults with care and support needs?
- Were there any tools/information that you were made aware of that changed the way you work?
- Is there anything else you would like to tell us?
Responses are anonymous, however they help us to measure any impact that we are having via our training courses.
Please find a wide range of free or low cost e-learning below, designed to support work to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults.
On completion of a course, practitioners should notify their agency training representative to ensure that e-learning is captured on their training record.
Professionals working with Children
- YouTube - Adverse childhood experiences
- NICE - Children and young people adopted from care guidance
- NSPCC elearning: online courses | NSPCC Learning
- Future Learn - Caring for vulnerable children
- Courses - HSQE
- Open Education - Child psychology: An Introduction
- Open Education - Children and young people's participation
- Open Education - Cyber security: An introduction course
- FGM E-Learning
- Future Learn - Improving the health of women, children and adolescents
- Learning.NSPCC - Keeping children safe online course - subject to £35 registration charge
- Open Education - Learning to teach: Becoming a reflective practitioner
- eLearning Prevent - An introduction e-learning
- Support people vulnerable to radicalisation - Service
- Disability Matters - Safeguarding disabled children and young people e-learning
- MindEd - Self-harm and risky behaviour: - Children and young people's mental health
- SCIE - Strengths based approaches videos
- Online Learning Courses & Training UK | Virtual College (virtual-college.co.uk)
- Virtual college - Animal welfare courses - when animals are abused, people are at risk
- Content IRISS - Understanding attachment theory e-learning
Professionals working with vulnerable adults
- Virtual college - Awareness of forced marriage
- Brook Learn - includes courses about Consent, Sexual Behaviours and Child Sexual Exploitation
- Open Education - Cyber security: An introduction course
- SCIE - Dementia awareness
- Disability Matters - Basics
- Gov.uk - Domestic homicide review (DHR): Guidance for professionals
- FGM E-Learning
- Future Learn - Improving the health of women, children and adolescents
- Open Education - Learning to teach: Becoming a reflective practitioner
- Future Learn - Logical and critical thinking
- Future Learn - Medicine and the arts: Humanising healthcare
- SCIE - Parental substance misuse
- eLearning Prevent - An introduction e-learning
- Support people vulnerable to radicalisation - Service
- eLearning for healthcare - Safeguarding adults e-learning for health professionals
- SCIE - Safeguarding adults
- SCIE - Strengths based approaches videos
- ECPAT - Training - subject to £30 charge
- Virtual college - Animal welfare courses - when animals are abused, people are at risk
- Content IRISS - Understanding attachment theory e-learning
- Future Learn - Understanding drugs and addiction
- Open Education - Working in the voluntary sector
- IFAS - Institute for Addressing Strangulation events archive
Please note: Bury Safeguarding Partnership is not responsible for the content of external websites.
- Ann Craft Trust have produced a range of podcasts. In each episode the host talks to a special guest to chat about an aspect of safeguarding: Ann Craft Trust - Safeguarding Matters Podcasts
- BBC Podcast: In Sickness and in Social Care (external link) - How can health and social care work closer together to keep the increasing number of elderly as well as possible? Dr Kevin Fong meets the people with new ideas and approaches.
- SCIE: Care to listen (external link) - Hear first-hand experiences of what it is like to live and work in the care system
Please click here to view learning from local reviews.
Please click here to view Safeguarding Adult Reviews
Training Courses
Overview:
Professional curiosity is the capacity and communication skill to bring together information from a range of sources to explore and understand what is happening with an individual. Unconscious bias is about unconscious forms of discrimination and stereotyping. Being mindful of professional curiosity and unconscious bias is vital in responding to the often highly complex cases that are characteristic of Safeguarding Adult Reviews, where multiple risks and vulnerabilities may extend over considerable periods of time.
Course Aim: This virtual course aims to equip practitioners with knowledge and understanding of the importance of being ‘professionally curious’ and avoiding unconscious bias and how to develop their skills when they are working with individuals across GM. This course is suitable for all practitioners working within statutory and non-statutory services supporting 'Adults at Risk of Harm' in a range of settings.
Dates & times:
12/12/2025 - 09:30 - 11:00
26/01/2026 - 09:30 - 11:00
13/03/2026 - 14:00 - 15:30
07/05/2026 - 09:30 - 11:00
27/07/2026 - 09:30 - 11:00
23/09/2026 - 09:30 - 11:00
19/11/2026 09:30 - 11:00
Please contact BSP@bury.gov.uk for access to the relevant links.
Overview:
This virtual one-hour session aims to provide an update to practitioners working with both young people and adults about the emerging presentation of ketamine. The session will give an overview of the risks, harm reduction advice, how to identify if someone might be using Ketamine and treatment pathways available.
Dates & times:
09/12/2025 - 13:00 - 14:00. Book here.
Overview:
This online session aims to equip practitioners to consider the risks attached to Cannabis use and how parenting capacity can be compromised. During the session, we will explore the risks and effects of Cannabis, the learning from Case Reviews, and questions to consider when assessing risk to Children and Families.
Dates & times:
03/12/2025 - 13:00 - 14:00. Book here.
Overview:
This in person training provides basic substance awareness to volunteers/professionals working with young people and families in Bury. It will raise awareness of Early Break and the support we offer locally which will improve confidence to referring into our service.The session will help professionals spot the signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol use, to be able to offer basic harm reduction advice, and consider the influence of social media in regard to substance use and trends.
Dates & times:
16/12/2025 - 13:00 - 16:00. Book here.
24/02/2026 - 13:00 - 16:00. Book here.
Overview:
This one day in person training course is open to professionals to develop trauma responsive approaches when working with hidden harm, such as parental substance use and co-occurring conditions e.g. mental health conditions and parental conflict. The day is a mix of classroom learning and activity-based learning.
Topics that will be covered include what is good parenting, working with executive functioning, adverse childhood experiences, substances in pregnancy and how the voice of the child is pivotal to working with and responding to hidden harm in families. The training is also localised by Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and exploring and understanding responses to working with parental substance use to effect long term positive change.
Dates & times available:
03/02/2026 - 09:30 - 16:00. Book here.
Overview:
This in person training is for all professionals who regularly work/volunteer with Children, to assist them in dealing with allegations made about staff who have:
• Behaved in a way that has harmed, or may have harmed a Child;
• Possibly committed a Criminal Offence against or related to a Child;
• Behaved towards a Child or Children in a way that indicates they may pose a risk of harm to Children
• Behaved or may have behaved in a way that indicates they may not be suitable to work with Children
Dates & times:
27/01/2025 - 09:15 - 14:15. Book here.
Domestic Homicide Review Learning Event
This is an in person learning event for Bury Community Safety and Bury Safeguarding Partnerships on awareness, learning and next steps from recent reviews.
Dates & times:
Please be advised that this event was originally scheduled for 05/11/2025 - 09:30 - 13:00, however has unfortunately been postponed. Updates will be shared here when a new date is scheduled.
Domestic Abuse in Later Life - Awareness Training
Learn how to recognize and support older adults experiencing domestic abuse at our in-person training session
Dates & times:
02/12/2025 - 10:00 - 12:00. Book here.
So Called Honour Based Abuse Awareness Training
Join Ruhena Tarafder who will be delivering "So-Called Honour-Based Violence and Abuse" training.
Dates & times:
27/11/2025 - 10:00 - 16:00. If you wish to receive further information, please email domesticabuse@bury.gov.uk to register your interest and book a place.
Domestic Abuse in Later Life – Train the trainer session
This is in-person training identifies signs of domestic abuse, methods of support available, and addressing vulnerabilities.
Dates & times:
04/03/2026 - 13:30 - 17:00. Book here.
This is an in person event.
Overview:
• Understand the impact of positive father involvement and dads as an asset.
• Understand how dads may experience poor mental health in the perinatal period and the potential impact.
• Learn more about Dad Matters, what support is available for dads in your area and how you can support dads to access support from Dad Matters.
• Develop understanding of what positive engagement looks like with dads, potential barriers and how you as professionals can increase engagement. The training is for professionals working with dads in the perinatal period (from conception to the age of 2) working in Bury.
Dates & times:
25/11/2025 - 09:30 - 12:00. Book here.
Level 1 Perinatal and Parent Infant Mental Health Training
This in person training is for any professional who might come into contact with perinatal families and who wants a better understanding of perinatal mental health issues and the importance of the parent infant relationship. The training will support attendees to build knowledge around mental health and confidence in recognising parental and infant mental health difficulties & and give an overview of the Bury perinatal and parent infant mental health pathway and where to signpost for support.
Dates & times:
TBC
Level 2 Infant Mental Health Training
This training is for participants who have completed level 1 (or pathway) training and who might have a more specialist role working directly with parents and infants (0-2). This training will build on and develop a deeper theoretical understanding of infant mental health and develop skills in working to build the relationship with more complex presentations.
Please note the Early Attachment Service training offer also includes IHV Perinatal 2 day training which replaces Level 1 training for Health Visitors and bespoke Infant Mental health training for social workers which negates the need to attend either Level 1 or Level 2 trainings outlined above.
Dates & times:
04/12/2025 - 09:30 - 16:30.
17/12/2025 - 09:30 - 16:30.
Contact the Early Attachment Service for more information or to book on: pcn-tr.buryearlyattachmentservice@nhs.net
Graded Care Profile (GCP2) Awareness Session
Join us for this virtual session to learn more about what a GCP2 is and how you can contribute to the GCP2 where there are concerns of child neglect. There will be a short presentation with a Q&A slot afterwards.
Dates & times available:
07/11/2025 - 11:00 - 12:30. Book here.
01/12/2025 - 11:00 - 12:30. Book here.
Neglect Training: Using Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2) Assessment Tool
Learn how to identify and address neglect using the Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2) Assessment Tool in our interactive training session!
Welcome to our in-person event focusing on neglect training using the GCP2 Assessment Tool! Join us for an interactive session where you will learn how to effectively utilize the GCP2 to assess the level of care provided to children. This training is essential for professionals working in child welfare and safeguarding. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and make a positive impact on children's lives!
Dates & times available:
Our upcoming training is now fully booked. Once further dates are scheduled, they will be posted here.
This virtual course covers:
- Purpose and function of MAPPA
- Framework for the classification of MAPPA Offenders
- Process of escalation between Management Levels
- Principles of information sharing and disclosure
- Duty To Co-Operate role in MAPPA
- Your role in MAPPA and support from the team
Dates & times:
15/01/2025 - 10:00 - 12:00: Book here.
"We are constantly evolving to keep up with what's needed from professionals in terms of informing practice. We have a bank of people with lived experience, both male and female who we can draw upon to deliver training. We are constantly in touch with current people who are in the system, of all ages who are both family and friends and are in touch with current experiences of the system which informs our current delivery.
Lads Like Us LTD are a husband and wife team from Manchester who are a true force of nature. The Lads Like us journey started with a mission dedicated to informing the practice of professionals and organisations that had failed them as children and adults and others like them who had no voice, they wanted to be the voice. They had to make something positive out of their lived experience, chaos and anger, addiction issues and time in institutions in order to thrive. Shouting and screaming about failures and trying to hold people to account made them mentally ill to the point of suicide attempts and isolation. They needed to adopt a new approach that would help " Us and them " that was our first problem. In order to break barriers between " Us and Them " they needed to work out a way to weaponise the empathy of professionals to allow them to see that the majority of the behaviours displayed by service users/clients/citizens/people are a direct result of some kind of trauma experienced throughout their lives. These people we refer to are lads and girls like us, from similar estates we grew up on, that are repeatedly presenting at mental health units, substance misuse services, prison and probation.
The answer to our problem was to create a trauma informed training package focusing on professional curiosity that would inform practice, using little Danny's and little Kyta's experiences combined with the healing journeys of both not forgetting the input from the services that supported us."
This is an in person event:
Dates & times:
20/11/2025 - 10:00 - 15:30. Book here.
Overview:
The Mental Capacity Act continues to be a key theme for learning identified in children’s and adults safeguarding practice and statutory reviews both regionally and nationally.
Following the success of an event in 2024, guest speaker Neil Allen, Barrister and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, is returning in November to discuss the complexities of the Mental Capacity Act experienced across agencies in the three boroughs as highlighted by HM Coroner. On the day, we will be exploring the interfaces between mental health, mental capacity, and the Children’s Act; the assessment of executive capacity including impact of alcohol and drugs; the level of detail required in the mental capacity assessments as they become more complex; key mental capacity learning related to adults and children, and much more.
This in person event is for practitioners, managers and strategic leads from all agencies who may be required to consider the Mental Capacity Act in practice including practitioners working with children or adults in either the statutory or voluntary sectors.
Date & time:
19/11/2025 - 12:30 - 17:00. Book here.