SACPA – Adolescent development and risk-taking behaviours

1 May 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Date: May 01, 2025
Time: 09:30 – 10:30
Cost: SACPA Member Rate: £90, SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £45, Non-member Rate: £180*
Audience: All practitioners working with children, young people or vulnerable individuals, DSL/DSO, DDSL, Safeguarding Manager/Lead, Governors, Trustees.
Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline

This webinar will consider risk taking behaviours in adolescents, including why they take risks, and what forms these risk taking behaviours can take. This webinar is suitable for anyone who works with children and young people and will increase understanding of teenage development and how to look past behaviour at what might be underlying and driving it.

Training topics will include:

An introduction to mental health and wellbeing, with specific focus on adolescents
Looking at teenage brain development and how this might impact behaviour
Focus on what causes concern and risk-taking behaviour, with an emphasis on practical ideas and strategies to support young people

Learning outcomes:

Increased understanding of teenage brain development
Increased understanding of risk-taking behaviour and what causes it, in adolescents
Practical ideas and strategies for supporting young people in their development.

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Speaker:

Nikki Holmes, Safer Together, Contextual Safeguarding and Exploitation

Nikki has served as a police officer, been a service manager for a young person’ substance misuse service, is an experienced Children’s Services Inspector for the CQC, and more recently launched her own consultancy Safer Together www.safer-together.co.uk, which is a proud member of the WeProtect Global Alliance.

An expert in safeguarding with expertise and extensive experience of working in the fields of Child Exploitation, County Lines and Modern Slavery, Nikki now provides independent consultancy and training to a range of organisations including the NHS and Local Authorities.

Nikki is also a guest lecturer, a public speaker and an independent author of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews.