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Beyond the Obvious: Professional Curiosity, Critical Thinking & Professional Challenge

2.5 Hour Multi-Agency Learning Event

Open to practitioners from Children's Social Care, Health, Education, Police, Early Help and Partner Agencies

Why does professional curiosity matter?

• When serious incidents involving children are reviewed, the same themes often emerge:
• Missed opportunities
• Assumptions replacing enquiry
• Children's lived experiences not fully understood
• Concerns not appropriately challenged

 

Professional curiosity, critical thinking and professional challenge remain some of the most important skills in safeguarding practice. The training materials highlight how case review learning repeatedly identifies the need to better understand children's lived experiences, challenge assumptions and ask the "second question".

 

This practical session will help you:

• Recognise and apply professional curiosity in everyday practice
• Strengthen critical thinking and analysis
• Understand how assumptions, bias and professional optimism can influence decision-making
•  Develop confidence to respectfully challenge and escalate concerns
• Focus on children's lived experiences and what life is really like for them
•  Apply learning from local and national safeguarding reviews
• Build stronger multi-agency relationships through relational practice
• Reflect on how Family First reforms and relationship-based practice support better outcomes for children and families

 

What to expect

• This is not a lecture.
• The session will be interactive, reflective and practice-focused, using: 
• Real safeguarding learning
• Case examples
• Multi-agency discussion
• Scenario-based activities
• Practical tools you can use immediately
• Key Question

 

"What is life like for this child day-to-day?"

This question sits at the heart of effective safeguarding practice.

 

Who should attend?

Anyone working with children, young people and families, including:

• Social Care
• Early Help
• Health
• Education
• Police
• Youth Justice
• Voluntary and Community Sector partners

Leave with...

•  Greater confidence
• Practical questioning techniques
• Tools to strengthen professional judgement
•   Enhanced ability to challenge respectfully
• New approaches to seeing, hearing and understanding the child's lived experience

Book your place now

 

Curiosity creates understanding.

Understanding creates better decisions.

Better decisions improve outcomes for children.

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