Safeguarding Children

Wave Care Services are working in partnership with Trainer - Steve Clay

About about Steve Clay

My professional qualifications are based within my 30-year career as a Police Officer retiring as Detective Chief Inspector.

• These include the national Policing Sergeants and Inspectors qualification, Higher National Diploma in Policing and Police Studies, University of Bournemouth, Senior Investigating Officer accreditation, Greater Manchester Police Detective Training School.

• In 2011 I obtained my basic teaching/training qualification, Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector at Hull College (PTLLS).

• I have worked in the Looked After Children sector since 2019 as a Designated Safeguarding Lead, Trainer, and Compliance Officer working alongside over 20 Local Authority Commissioning Teams.

• After retiring from the Police, I was the Safeguarding Board Manager for 8 years. I delivered safeguarding training to over 9000 multi agency staff including Police, Local Authority and the Voluntary and Community Sector.

• I was a member of the Safeguarding Children Board, Child Death Overview Panel and undertook Section 11 Children Act 1989 audits to quality assure safeguarding children arrangements across Police, Health, Probation, Local Authority and Housing providers.

• I have provided hundreds of safeguarding training sessions to GP Surgeries, Dental Practices and Social Care Providers since 2011 when I formed my sole trader safeguarding training company “Simply Safeguarding”. I have been a keynote speaker on Safeguarding Children and Adults at national Dental Conferences at Bristol, Cardiff, London, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Watford, and Birmingham. I also was a keynote speaker at the Community Care Conference in Birmingham on learning lessons from Serious Care Reviews and am the joint author of a publication “A Decade of Serious Case Reviews”.

Agenda for the day:

• Uses professional knowledge and understanding to identify signs and symptoms of child abuse or neglect.
• Able to identify and refer a child suspected of being a victim of trafficking, county lines or modern slavery or sexual exploitation; at risk of exploitation/grooming by radicalisers, gang, and electronic media abuse.
• Able to identify and refer a child at risk of FGM or having been a victim of FGM.
• Acts as an effective advocate for the child or young person.
• Shares appropriate and relevant information.