Agenda Item - East Sussex County Council

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more recently the East Sussex LCSB has introduced a programme of e-learning on
Safeguarding Children. All these programmes are available to staff and volunteers
across East Sussex.
iii) Developing Multi-Agency SVA Training (Level 2)
From September 2010 to March 2011 the Safeguarding training Co-ordinator will be
piloting a series of half-day multi-agency SVA training courses. The courses will be
aimed, initially, at front-line staff working in the local authority, PCT’s and the acute
health Trust.
The courses will be co-delivered by staff from health and social care and replace
existing single-agency, level 2, training.
iv)
The East Sussex SVA Trainers Forum and Training Approval Scheme
In April 2010 the Safeguarding Board agreed to the introduction of a ‘Training
Approval Scheme’ in East Sussex. The scheme will be managed by the Training Coordinator
and enables SVA trainers to seek ‘approval’ for their training by meeting
agreed standards and performance criteria This, in turn, allows those purchasing
training from ‘approved training providers’ to do so with confidence.
v) Safeguarding for Direct Payment employers, Personal Assistants (PA’s)
and Support With Confidence membership
A number of PA’s and Carers have attended Safeguarding workshops offered by
ESCC. One Carer/Employer also went on to attend the full Train the Trainers course
to ensure he could train future PA’s.
A full page article on Safeguarding and who to contact, was included in the first edition
of FOCUS (winter 09) a newsletter sent to all Direct Payment recipients. This also
included information on the e-learning now available as well as information about
safeguarding courses being held.
In the spring issue of FOCUS the e-learning information was repeated. Other
resources are also available and we now have a DVD on Safeguarding that can be
borrowed at no cost. Service users and PA’s can also access the Social Care
Information and Learning Services website which has a number of safeguarding
courses contained in it’s package.
One of the requirements to join Support with Confidence will be to do the e-learning
course on Safeguarding this includes all employees of a business that wishes to be
recognised as a Support with Confidence member.
vi) SVA Competency Framework
East Sussex Adult Social Care department introduced a SVA competency framework
for all staff in June 2009. Since then all staff will have been ‘assessed’ against the
framework and ASC is currently carrying out an audit to measure performance in this
area. In addition the ESCC competency framework has been used by ‘Learn to Care’,
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