Festival of Learning 2023: Safeguarding Bumps to Babies
The Festival of Learning is organised by the Multi-Agency Learning & Development Group of the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Safeguarding Children Partnerships. It is a week-long event offering a programme of both in-person and online training sessions, focused on a particular theme.
In 2023, the Festival of Learning ran from 1st-7th November and focused on Safeguarding Bumps and Babies. This was to look at learning around the Safeguarding Children Partnerships' Business Plan Priority on "Safeguarding Babies – Improving how we work together with families before and after births to safeguard babies".
Over the course of the week, there were 15 sessions. The Festival was introduced by a Key Note speech from Jane Wiffin, who looked at the womb as the baby's first home. The sessions covered a broad spectrum of topics, looking at services from good quality childcare, through to the legal processes of pre-birth assessments and taking children into care and safeguarding themes such as domestic abuse (in particular coercive reproduction), parental conflict, drugs and alcohol, safer sleeping, ICON (shaken baby syndrome) and working in a trauma-informed way.
We are sharing the recordings of the sessions, where possible, including the film of the in-person opening session with the key note speaker.
Wednesday 1st November | ||
09:30-12:30 City Hall Leicester | Festival of Learning: Safeguarding Bumps & Babies OPENING SESSION Including the new Safe Sleep Risk Tool | Key Note Speaker: Jane Wiffin Recording of Key Note Speech is available here: https://youtu.be/H0QkmLZTQMQ?si=mAUrOrly4t2cFGtI Recording of Safer Sleeping Risk Assessment Tool Presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/V1j1fNH9Ns4?si=skygk8loFclgjUiM To access the Safer Sleeping Risk Assessment Tool, please go to our Safer Sleeping Resources webpage: |
13:30-15:00 Online Zoom | Domestic Abuse and pregnancy/babies: Coercive Control and Coercive Reproduction | No recording available |
15:30-17:00 Online MS Teams | The Voice of Babies and non-verbal children | No recording available |
Thursday 2nd November | ||
09:30-11:00 Family Hub Oakham | The Social Baby | No recording available |
14:00-15:00 Online Zoom | And Baby makes three: How couple/family relationships are impacted by the arrival of a new-born | Recording of training is available here: |
18:30-19:30 Online MS Teams | Myth of Invisible Men: Working with men | Recording of training is available here: |
Friday 3rd November | ||
10:00-11:00 Town Hall Leicester | Pre-birth assessments and legal processes | No recording available |
11:30-12:30 Town Hall Leicester | Myth of Invisible Men: Working with men | Recording of previous session held on Thursday 2nd is available here: |
13:30-14:30 Online MS Teams | ICON: 'Babies Cry – I can cope' Session | Recording of session is available here: |
Saturday 4th November | ||
13:30-14:30 Online MS Teams | How to use the Safeguarding Children Competency Framework | Recording of session is available here: |
Monday 6th November | ||
09:30-11:30 Online MS Teams | From Bump to Baby – The impact of substance use during pregnancy | Recording of training is available here: |
12:00-13:00 Online MS Teams | Handholding Referrals (supporting vulnerable families to access support from the family hub) | Recording of training is available here: |
13:00-14:30 Online Zoom | Trauma – When does it begin? Trauma informed Practice in Perinatal Services; It's the earliest intervention | No recording available |
16:00-16:30 Online MS Teams | Good Quality Childcare | No recording available |
Tuesday 7th November | ||
10:00 – 12:00 Online | Pre-birth process: Children Born into Care | No recording available |
Festival of Learning Safeguarding Babies and Bumps Presentation (PDF, 1.5 Mb)
This pdf file is the Opening Session from the Festival of Learning held on 1st November 2023.