Supporting Care Experienced Children and Young People on Their Return from Being Missing

Missing People is proud to launch our new online training ‘Supporting Care Experienced Children and Young People on Their Return from Being Missing.’ This training will help care providers deliver high-quality, consistent support for missing children and young people, ensuring they are Ofsted-ready. 

One in every ten looked-after children will go missing compared to an estimated one in every two hundred children generally. A combination of increased risk and different policies for reporting care experienced children missing has left the response to children missing from care placements inconsistent.  

 Thursday 24th October from 13:00 – 16:30. Ticket cost is £83.00 per person 

Who is it for? 

Staff who work with children who are care experienced including:  

• Supported accommodation providers 
• Foster Carers 
• Registered Managers of children’s care homes or supported/semi-independent accommodation (private, local authority or third sector)  
• Senior leaders overseeing a group of children’s care homes or semi-independent accommodation  
• Senior leaders overseeing a group of children’s care homes or supported/semi-independent accommodation  
• Any operational staff who work with children who are care experienced 

What is the agenda?  

• Understanding the national picture of children who go missing from care 
• Why children in care go missing  
• Finding the balance in reporting missing episodes  
• Building rapport and engaging those who are care experienced – what young people want and need 
• Top tips for a good return conversation  
• Report writing and use of appropriate language  
• Safety planning to prevent repeat missing episodes 
• Ofsted standards for supported accommodation, and the Children who Go Missing from Care Framework.  

Our training is grounded in lived experience and we thank The Care Experienced Movement for sharing their expertise with us to shape the content of the training.   

This training can also be delivered to a group of up to 20 professionals in your local area and can be tailored to suit your organisations needs, online or in person. Please contact us at consultancy@missingpeople.org.uk for more information. 

Feedback 

We recently trained the team from one of the country’s leading providers of residential care and education for children who have suffered trauma and exploitation. Both training sessions we delivered received feedback ratings of over 4.6 out of 5. 

‘’Professionally and knowledgeably presented. I had never heard of missing people before so this has been fantastic to learn about and will benefit the support worker knowledge.’’ 

‘’Would highly recommend.’’ 

“Very interesting and informative, great sharing in the chat and engagement from participants.”  

“Loved the young people’s comments and insights.”  

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