This two-hour, face-to-facemulti-agency partnership workshop is designed to support practitioners inexploring and strengthening their understanding of race, racism, and cognitivebias within safeguarding practice. Through discussion, reflection, and sharedlearning, participants will consider how personal, organisational, and systemicbiases can influence decision-making, professional curiosity, risk assessment,and outcomes for individuals. The workshop will provide an opportunity forpractitioners from different agencies to develop greater awareness, challengeassumptions, and promote anti-racist and culturally responsive safeguardingpractice.
The workshop will be facilitatedby Dr Jen Sersby, Head of Safeguarding All-Ages, NHS Central EastICB
This course is intended for multi-agency practitioners inCambridgeshire and Peterborough who work with children and their families.Participants will be required to interact and contribute to the discussion inthe form of a benchmarking activity and group discussions.
This workshop is FREE to all Cambridgeshire and Peterborough practitionerswho work with children, young people and their families. There will be limitson how many practitioners from each agency are allowed to attend to ensure amulti-agency mix and multi-agency learning.