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Learning and development

Multi-agency structured training courses

The courses detailed here are available for practitioners and volunteers working regularly with children and young people directly or indirectly, in York. These courses are aimed at professionals Group 5 - Group 8 as detailed in the training guidance page.

Further course details, including individual course learning objectives and pre-requisite learning are detailed on the MyLO website.

Bookings can be made through the Workforce Development Unit (WDU) at City of York Council, unless indicated otherwise.

If you do not already have a MyLO login, please follow the instructions on the MyLO login screen.

If you have any questions about accessing MyLO please email: [email protected].

Multi-agency training allows staff from different organisations to learn together and strengthens understanding amongst partners. To achieve a good multi-agency mix at each session, it would be helpful, where an organisation may have numerous staff wanting to attend a course, if attendance could be spread across a number of sessions.

All courses are free of charge to those working within the City of York.

The City of York Safeguarding Children’s Partnership aims to provide a range of courses to support those working with children and young people in York. We value your feedback and have used it to shape our training offer.

In September 2025, we launched the new City of York Safeguarding Children Partnership Awareness E-learning module, building on and improving the content from the previous version. As this updated module is pitched at a higher level, we are currently reviewing our face-to-face training offer (previously known as Safeguarding A and B) to ensure it is appropriate for Designated Safeguarding Leads and Deputy Safeguarding Leads within agencies.

As part of this review, we will pause the face-to-face training from April 2026 while we develop a new course. This will be re-launched in September 2026.

In the meantime, we encourage you to complete the e-learning module if you have not already done so. We will also be in touch with further information about how we will support you during this transition period.

The e-learning module is available here.

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Course aims:

  • to develop an understanding of harmful sexual behaviour (HSB)
  • to consider the risks and needs of children who present HSB
  • to share our concerns about the possible impact of working with children who have presented HSB
  • to discuss further involved in identifying HSB.
  • to talk about what is considered ok/not ok sexual behaviours
  • to briefly talk about why children engage in these behaviours
  • to inform delegates of the York Youth Justice Service Harmful Sexual Behaviour programme and pathways for support

An Information pack will be sent prior to training which includes pre-course exercises and information.

If you have not received this before the session please contact Emily Thompson or Ross Holden.

Target audience:

This course is aimed at staff working in:

  • education
  • the Police
  • children's social care

Dates and times:

  • 2025
    • Thursday 29 May
    • Thursday 21 August
    • Thursday 27 November

All sessions run from 10.00am to 2.00pm.

Venue:

These sessions will be delivered at City of York Council's West Offices.

How to book:

Book a place or find out more online:

If you do not already have a MyLO login, please follow the instructions on the MyLO login screen.

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Course outline:

This course covers the different components of the child death review including the role and responsibilities of multi-agency professionals and provides the skills to explain it to families.

Course description:

This course explains the statutory purpose of the Child Death Overview Panel. This includes the different components of the Joint Agency Response into a child death and subsequent child death review. It touches on the role of the key worker and the coroner and informs professionals on how best to support to bereaved families. In addition, professionals will be provided with an overview of the National Child Mortality Team and local data.

Target audience:

Available to all multi-agency professionals across North Yorkshire and York who work directly or indirectly with children and families.

Dates and times:

Child Death Review Training dates are available on the NYES website.

Venue:

These sessions will be delivered by Microsoft Teams.

To book on the free training, please visit the NYES webpage.

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In 2020, the Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire successfully bid for funding through the new Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Interventions Fund to develop a Whole System Approach in North Yorkshire and the City of York to Addressing Abusive Behaviours working collaboratively with partners to improve the overall accessibility of immediate advice and triage to enable perpetrators of domestic abuse to receive the right support at an earlier stage to address their abusive behaviour, alongside any health and social care needs which may otherwise be a barrier to effective behaviour change.

To support this Whole System Approach to Addressing Abusive Behaviours the ‘Hard to Help’ training is now available for any frontline workers to ensure they have the appropriate knowledge and tools available to better identify domestic abuse, successful engage with perpetrators and encourage them to access support services. Currently all sessions are delivered online, with face-to-face delivery sessions once COVID restrictions allow. The training is delivered over a 2.5hr sessions split into 3 parts:

  1. DA awareness, including ‘Rurality’ to raise awareness of the picture in North Yorkshire
  2. Getting to know and understand perpetrators
  3. How to engage perpetrators in support, including using DASH for identified victims

Individual workers can book themselves onto the course or team managers can arrange for their whole team to attend; book to attend online.

To underpin this training, a new Domestic Abuse Online Learning Platform is now available for all professionals to access bitesize training modules and presentations on key subject matters such as mental health, trauma, dual diagnosis, substance misuse and the impact on abusive behaviours, as well as downloadable resources to use with clients.

The Platform features a Core Training Toolkit plus a log in function to allow access to the full training resources library:

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A free programme of free Domestic Abuse training has been jointly commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council and City of York Council. These training courses are specific to professionals working within the North Yorkshire and City of York areas and are being delivered by our commissioned domestic abuse providers IDAS.

Target audience:

Professionals working with victims of domestic abuse and their children who work in the City of York and North Yorkshire areas.

Venue:

Virtual (online).

Book a place on the Domestic Abuse Training course online: IDAS Training for North Yorkshire and City of York Professionals.

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The Children and Young People Trauma Informed Care Programme training is available, and is provided by Trauma Informed Care.

These courses are delivered face-to-face at various venues and available to book via Eventbrite.

Due to the financial cost of providing this training, a fee of £50 will be charged for non-attendance for any of these courses, where no prior cancellation is sent through to the training admin team.

Course aims:

  • to guide in how to address developmental trauma in children and young people
  • to build on thoughtful practices that are already part of an organisation
  • to explore the principles of the ARC Framework
  • to support in giving you the tools to intervene in Children and Young People’s lives in a meaningful way to address their need for; a sense of safety, skills to regulate their emotions/physical experience
  • to support to help you identify gaps in competencies needed for healthy development

Target audience:

A more in-depth training session for all staff who have direct or regular contact with Children and Young People who may be affected by trauma

This level of training will support those working on a daily basis with Children and Young People.

Dates and times:

Full Day Trauma Informed Training sessions are held from 9.30am to 4.00pm - arrive at 9.00am.

2 Day ARC Training - Pre-Requisite to becoming an ARC Champion

Course aims:

  • to define complex trauma and identify at least 3 consequences of early complex trauma exposure
  • to define Trauma Informed practice
  • to identify and briefly describe the 3 domains of the ARC framework
  • to identify and briefly describe the 8 core targets of the ARC framework
  • to identify the importance of engagement with service user and identify ways in which engagement can be built
  • to identify and briefly describe the role of routines and psychoeducation in trauma-informed practice
  • to identify key members of the caregiving system within the participant’s own system and/or with their client population
  • to identify at least 1 way that the core attachment targets apply to the participant and/or providers within the participant’s system
  • to identify 1 way to support safe caregiving systems for trauma impacted youth
  • to identify the skills needed to make meaning of Children and Young People’s behaviours
  • to identify the ways in which caregivers can respond to Children and Young People’s behaviour to meet needs and address the needs for felt safety
  • to identify at least two key targets of intervention for supporting youth regulation
  • to identify at least 2 activities that can be used to support regulation
  • to identify and describe at least one aspect of self and identity that may be impacted in trauma exposed youth
  • to describe 1 “entry point” for supporting decision-making in youth
  • to identify at least one strategy or activity that can be used to target executive functioning
  • to describe at least one phase of trauma experience integration, as defined by the ARC framework

Target Audience:

An in-depth 2 day training course for all staff who have direct or regular contact with Children and Young People who may be affected by trauma.

This level of training will support those working on a daily basis with Children and Young People.

This training is delivered by national trainer Kati Taunt and offers the opportunity for those attending to become ARC Champions within their own service areas.

Dates and times:

2 Day ARC Training sessions are held from 9.30am to 4.00pm - arrive at 9.00am.

Half Day Senior Leadership Training - Session 1

Course aims:

  • to have a scientific understanding of what trauma is and how it lives in the nervous system of people who use our services and the staff we are managing
  • to understand the impact of trauma on organisational systems, including the signs and symptoms of trauma in staff and clients and what the system is doing to traumatise the staff
  • to be confident in the value Trauma Informed leadership and Trauma Informed care will add to your service
  • to know how to move beyond offering trauma treatment services to leading Trauma Informed organisations
  • to be able to integrate knowledge about trauma into your policies, procedures, and practices
  • to understand how to monitor the effectiveness of a Trauma Informed care system

Target Audience:

2 half day training sessions aimed at Senior Leaders from our Stakeholder and Partnership Organisations across the 6 places of the Humber and North Yorkshire region who can really effect organisational change.

Once Leaders have attended the ARC training, we hope that this will give them a greater understanding of the ARC Framework, to enable them to support their staff in implementing a Trauma Informed approach and some of them becoming ARC Champions.

Dates and times:

Half Day Senior Leadership Training sessions are held from 9.30am to 1.00pm - arrive at 9.00am.

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