Our Interactive Webinar Training Sessions – Designed for You!
Live Online Training, Deep Dives and Practitioner BriefingsSmart Training and Consultancy provides engaging, evidence-led training for professionals working across safeguarding, education, youth justice, social care, health, policing, housing and the voluntary sector.
Led by Dr Junior Smart OBE, sessions combine nearly 20 years of frontline and strategic experience with current research, lived experience and practical safeguarding tools.
The emphasis is not simply on helping people understand an issue. It is on helping them decide what to do next.
Sessions can be delivered as:
Led by Dr Junior Smart OBE, sessions combine nearly 20 years of frontline and strategic experience with current research, lived experience and practical safeguarding tools.
The emphasis is not simply on helping people understand an issue. It is on helping them decide what to do next.
Sessions can be delivered as:
- 90-minute Deep Dives
- Two-hour practitioner briefings
- Half-day workshops
- Full-day training
- Leadership and commissioner briefings
- Bespoke multi-agency sessions
Webinar Training - CCE, Gangs and Serious Group Violence: Supporting and responding to Vulnerable People at Risk
Flagship Training:
CCE, County Lines and Serious Group ViolenceTypical duration: Half day
A practical and detailed examination of child criminal exploitation, County Lines, gangs and serious group violence.
The session explores how exploitation develops, how children become trapped and why behaviour associated with harm is still too often interpreted as choice, defiance or criminality.
Participants will consider:
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote
CCE, County Lines and Serious Group ViolenceTypical duration: Half day
A practical and detailed examination of child criminal exploitation, County Lines, gangs and serious group violence.
The session explores how exploitation develops, how children become trapped and why behaviour associated with harm is still too often interpreted as choice, defiance or criminality.
Participants will consider:
- Early and less obvious indicators of exploitation
- Grooming, coercion, debt bondage and entrapment
- Victim and offender overlap
- The experiences of girls and young women
- Social media and digital grooming
- Family impact
- Safe disruption and exit planning
- Multi-agency barriers
- Reflective practice and professional blind spots
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Deep Dive - 90 Minute Webinar Seminars
The Realities of Youth Violence: Insight, Impact, and Action
Duration: 90 Minutes
What to Expect
Drawing on over 20 years of frontline experience, this engaging session provides a deep dive into the root causes of youth violence, effective early intervention strategies, and the power of community-led solutions. Participants will leave with practical insights and innovative approaches to create meaningful change.
Key Topics Covered:
Who Should Attend?
This seminar is ideal for:
Why Attend?
Learn from a nationally recognised leader in youth intervention and social change.
Gain valuable knowledge, practical tools, and proven strategies to make a real impact in your community.
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote
Duration: 90 Minutes
What to Expect
Drawing on over 20 years of frontline experience, this engaging session provides a deep dive into the root causes of youth violence, effective early intervention strategies, and the power of community-led solutions. Participants will leave with practical insights and innovative approaches to create meaningful change.
Key Topics Covered:
- The Reality of Youth Violence – How it manifests in 2024
- Root Causes – Understanding the complex factors driving youth violence
- Early Intervention – The role of prevention and proactive support systems
- Cross-Sector Collaboration – How partnerships can drive lasting change
- Policy Implications – Insights from work with the Home Office and Youth Endowment Fund
Who Should Attend?
This seminar is ideal for:
- Youth workers and social service professionals
- Educators and school administrators
- Law enforcement and criminal justice personnel
- Policymakers and community leaders
- Anyone committed to creating safer spaces for young people
Why Attend?
Learn from a nationally recognised leader in youth intervention and social change.
Gain valuable knowledge, practical tools, and proven strategies to make a real impact in your community.
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote
County Lines & CCE – What Systems Miss
Duration: 90 Minutes
Audience: Multi-agency frontline professionals (social care, education, youth services, health, police, voluntary sector)
Overview
County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) continue to challenge safeguarding systems, yet too often responses are shaped by stereotypes or surface-level indicators. This interactive, evidence-led session draws on lived experience and doctoral research to cut through the noise. Participants will explore how exploitation really works on the ground, why 16–17 year olds frequently fall through gaps, and what professionals can do differently in practice.
Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
This session equips frontline practitioners with sharper tools to identify hidden risks, challenge assumptions, and respond more effectively to one of the most complex safeguarding issues facing services today.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Audience: Multi-agency frontline professionals (social care, education, youth services, health, police, voluntary sector)
Overview
County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) continue to challenge safeguarding systems, yet too often responses are shaped by stereotypes or surface-level indicators. This interactive, evidence-led session draws on lived experience and doctoral research to cut through the noise. Participants will explore how exploitation really works on the ground, why 16–17 year olds frequently fall through gaps, and what professionals can do differently in practice.
Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognise early, non-obvious indicators of CCE and extrafamilial harm.
- Apply professional curiosity to move beyond checkbox risk tools.
- Map pathways into and out of exploitation, including the victim–offender overlap and transition challenges at 16–18.
- Real-world case insights and research findings.
- Practical strategies and safety planning tools you can use the next day.
- An engaging, interactive format with opportunities for reflection and Q&A.
This session equips frontline practitioners with sharper tools to identify hidden risks, challenge assumptions, and respond more effectively to one of the most complex safeguarding issues facing services today.
Deep Dive: Adultification, Race & Risk: Getting it Right in Practice
Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: Multi-agency practitioners, managers, policy leads
Overview
Adultification and race bias are increasingly recognised as barriers to effective safeguarding, but often reduced to a single line in assessments. This session moves beyond theory into practice: how to recognise adultification in real cases, how it shifts thresholds, and what a defensible anti-racist safeguarding response looks like.
Learning Objectives
This training equips professionals to confront bias with confidence and ensure children receive responses rooted in need, not stereotypes.
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Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: Multi-agency practitioners, managers, policy leads
Overview
Adultification and race bias are increasingly recognised as barriers to effective safeguarding, but often reduced to a single line in assessments. This session moves beyond theory into practice: how to recognise adultification in real cases, how it shifts thresholds, and what a defensible anti-racist safeguarding response looks like.
Learning Objectives
- Define adultification and its impact on safeguarding assessments.
- Identify how race bias shapes language, thresholds, and responses.
- Build defensible, fair decision-making in real-world practice.
- Practical examples from real cases and reviews.
- Tools to challenge adultification in assessments and supervision.
- Space to reflect on race, language, and defensibility in safeguarding.
This training equips professionals to confront bias with confidence and ensure children receive responses rooted in need, not stereotypes.
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote
The Moment of Contact: Trust, Crisis and Intervention
Duration:
Duration: 90 minutes or two hours
The first contact between a practitioner and a young person in crisis can shape everything that follows.
This session explores what happens when professionals meet young people in hospitals, custody, schools, homes and community settings during moments of fear, anger or uncertainty.
Participants will explore:
Duration:
Duration: 90 minutes or two hours
The first contact between a practitioner and a young person in crisis can shape everything that follows.
This session explores what happens when professionals meet young people in hospitals, custody, schools, homes and community settings during moments of fear, anger or uncertainty.
Participants will explore:
- Why a young person may be reachable but not yet teachable
- How trust is assessed within seconds
- Attention, usefulness, control and safety
- The impact of exploitation on crisis behaviour
- How to avoid demanding disclosure too early
- The responsible use of lived experience
- What turns a moment of contact into meaningful engagement
Reflective Practice Clinic – Seeing the Blind Spots in Frontline Work
Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: Multi-agency frontline professionals and leaders
Overview
Frontline decisions are rarely made with full information. They are made under pressure, within stretched systems, while balancing risk, responsibility, relationships, and accountability. This reflective practice clinic creates structured space for practitioners to pause, think clearly, and examine how judgement is shaped by pressure, power, language, and systems. Drawing on real practice scenarios and facilitated reflection, the session helps participants recognise blind spots not as failures, but as predictable features of complex work.
Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
What to Expect
This session supports practitioners to think more clearly, act more fairly, and sustain their practice over time. Reflective practice strengthens judgement, improves defensible decision-making, and protects professional wellbeing. In complex safeguarding, health, justice, and community settings, the ability to pause and reflect is not optional. It is protective.
Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: Multi-agency frontline professionals and leaders
Overview
Frontline decisions are rarely made with full information. They are made under pressure, within stretched systems, while balancing risk, responsibility, relationships, and accountability. This reflective practice clinic creates structured space for practitioners to pause, think clearly, and examine how judgement is shaped by pressure, power, language, and systems. Drawing on real practice scenarios and facilitated reflection, the session helps participants recognise blind spots not as failures, but as predictable features of complex work.
Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand what reflective practice is and what it is not.
- Recognise common blind spots in frontline decision-making.
- Apply structured reflection tools to real practice scenarios.
- Strengthen professional judgement under pressure.
- Use curiosity, not blame, to improve decision-making and supervision.
What to Expect
- A clear, accessible explanation of reflective practice in frontline contexts.
- Honest exploration of why reflection is difficult inside pressured systems.
- A facilitated group activity using Home Truth cards to surface shared blind spots.
- Case-based discussion focused on language, assumptions, and thresholds.
- Introduction to the Second Question Tool as a practical reflection aid.
- A psychologically safe space for shared learning rather than right answers.
This session supports practitioners to think more clearly, act more fairly, and sustain their practice over time. Reflective practice strengthens judgement, improves defensible decision-making, and protects professional wellbeing. In complex safeguarding, health, justice, and community settings, the ability to pause and reflect is not optional. It is protective.
Bespoke Training and Commissioner Briefings
Smart Training and Consultancy also develops tailored sessions for:
Get in Touch to Discuss Your Training Needs
Every organisation is different.
Our sessions can be adapted around your audience, local context, current challenges and intended outcomes.
Contact Smart Training and Consultancy to discuss the right format, content and delivery approach for your team.
Smart Training and Consultancy also develops tailored sessions for:
- Safeguarding partnerships
- Violence reduction units
- Local authorities
- Police and crime commissioners
- Schools and multi-academy trusts
- Youth justice services
- Children’s homes
- Health services
- Charities and voluntary organisations
- Local case and pathway learning
- Leadership briefings
- Workforce development
- Family engagement
- Lived-experience practice
- Reflective supervision
- Policy and procedure implementation
- Multi-agency learning
- Programme and resource development
Get in Touch to Discuss Your Training Needs
Every organisation is different.
Our sessions can be adapted around your audience, local context, current challenges and intended outcomes.
Contact Smart Training and Consultancy to discuss the right format, content and delivery approach for your team.