Supporting Resources

Practice resources

We have produced a range of resources to support practitioners.

Courageous & Challenging Conversations Guidance

Courageous & Challenging  Conversations Tool
(DOCX, 65.0 KB)

Courageous & Challenging Conversations Tool example
(PDF, 133.5 KB)

Motivational Interviewing and Safer Sleep practitioner resource (PDF, 206.1 KB)

Elective Home Education Guidance for Professionals

Annie's Year

Annie's Year is a video which follows the diary entries of Annie over the course of several months in which she is groomed to see sexual abuse as a loving relationship. The video is based on learning, although not the exact circumstances, of a Kent  Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR).

Watch  Annie's Year

Training videos

We have produced a range of training videos on a range of safeguarding topics and Kent approaches to help raise awareness of safeguarding children.

View contextual safeguarding training video

View district contextual safeguarding meeting (DCSM) and complex adolescent harm meeting (CAHM) training video

View reachable/teachable moments training video

View trauma training video

View violence prevention training video

View voices of people affected by violence video

View a guide to the Kent  Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) for professionals video

Kent and Medway teenage suicide and self-harm conference videos - October 2021

On 6 October 2021 the Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Programme and Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership worked to host a Kent and Medway Teenage Suicide and Self-Harm Conference. These videos are presentations and inputs delivered during the conference. View the Kent and Medway thematic review into adolescent suicide and self-harm.

View mental health innovations video

View crossing the rubicon video

View self-harm prevention for children and young people video

View Kent and Medway transformation programme video

View children and young people's mental health service video

View positive practice audit video

View children and young person led resilience tools video

View expanding services for children and young people video

View ACE and trauma informed working video