For the past two years, Catherine has designed and delivered very effective annual Safeguarding training for our whole organisation. She also delivered Designated Safeguarding Lead training. She provided feedback and recommendations about our Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults policies and internal practice to help us build a stronger organisational culture of Safeguarding. With her support, we have been able to clarify with our frontline staff what is required and expected of them, and employees have told us they feel better able to flag up and act on worries about service users. She has helped us increase our confidence as an organisation and our reputation in the sector.

Sarah & Diana, Time & Talents
29th September 2022/No comment

I feel that the different strands of learning and experience I have are more consolidated. I feel more able to challenge and less afraid of doing so. I’ve noticed the things I was worrying about were justified and I feel more equipped to deal with them. I’m collaborating more. I’m sharing and wondering more. I feel more competent. I feel more able to step into my authority and be an integral part of a team around the child, rather than a nice addition as a therapist. I’m hopeful that YF [Young Futures] will continue to progress towards a robust model that not only safeguards young people and their babies but anchors staff and helps them to feel safe too. I feel like safeguarding is an ongoing ever-evolving process that is fallible as it involves humans, and humans are prone to skew and drift and over-identify and the rest. As long as we communicate and share and collaborate and think together, however, we should be ok. I’ve learnt to be kind to myself and others, every story is connected, for where are we without professional love in this work? Relationships are at the ❤️ of everything.

Kelly Jordan, Lead Dramatherapist at Young Futures
8th January 2020/No comment
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