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Dateline: 28th September, 2004

Child Protection and Youth Arts

Artswork's Artsplan training and publications department have announced they will be running their "CREATING SAFETY: child protection and youth arts" course in Southampton on Monday 8th November 2004. The course costs £95 per person inc lunch and refreshments. Places are limited so early booking is advised. To book, contact the Artsplan Co-ordinator on claire@artswork.demon.co.uk or telephone 023 8063 0960.

Course Information

This one day course is essential training for anyone working within youth arts, but especially those using more physical art forms, such as dance and drama. Developed in conjunction with South East Dance this course compliments the Arts Council England 'Keeping Arts Safe' guidelines developed with the NSPCC. The training will cover current child protection legislation in line with the requirements of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), within the context of delivering a youth arts project and includes a 'safe touch' section, exploring how child protection guidelines can be maintained within more physical art forms.

It will be of benefit to individuals and organisations looking to develop their own child protection policy and maintain standards of good practice, providing practical advice and guidelines to develop confidence and sensible structures around child protection issues within youth arts.

Trainers

Artsplan trainers have a wide range of excellent skills, experience and understanding developed whilst working within the Youth Arts sector. This course is co-delivered by experienced child protection trainers: Virginia Haworth-Galt, Assistant Director of Artswork and one of ACE's specialist Child Protection Advisors and Anne Colvin, a professional dancer and expert in 'safe touch' child protection issues.

Participants

This course is suitable for anyone who wishes to learn more about the issues involved with child protection and youth arts, and develop a 'safe touch' approach to more physical art forms, as well as those looking to develop a strong child protection policy for their youth arts project and/or organisation.

This course aims to

• discuss the context and importance of child protection within youth arts
• explore current CRB child protection legislation and guidelines for working with young people and identify ways to ensure your youth arts project / organisation complies
• identify ways to recognise potential signs of abuse and protect yourself
  from unfounded allegations
• inform on appropriate ways to respond and report possible abuse and disclosures
• explore issues of 'safe touch' and guidelines for using more physical art forms
• provide guidelines for developing an appropriate child protection policy for your project / organisation
• identify ways to develop your child protection policy and ensure it remains in line with current legislation

On successful completion of this course participants should be able to

• demonstrate an understanding of current child protection legislation and the need for safe guidelines
• identify ways to recognise potential signs of abuse and breaches of child protection policies
• demonstrate an understanding of appropriate guidelines for responding and reporting possible abuse
• feel more confident of 'safe touch' guidelines (especially when using more physical art forms) to protect themselves from unfounded allegations of abuse
• develop an appropriate child protection policy and guidelines for their project/organisation
• establish good practice and ensure their child protection policy remains in line with current legislation

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