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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Our training for professionals, increases staff knowledge and their ability to deliver safety messages to others.
- Unique, tailor-made training for your staff team; suitable for professionals with a remit of working with, or looking after children, including healthcare professionals, teaching staff and childcare providers/workers.
- The safety workshops allow your staff to go on to deliver the latest, up-to-date safety sessions to your client groups.
- Statistics and case studies are updated regularly to keep up with injury prevention strategies. All students will receive statistical information and presentations on CD. All students will have access to baby burns dolls and choking baby mannequins for sessional work.
Safety Workshops
We can train your to deliver a variety of safety workshops to parents and carers. Using prepared case studies and images of injury, these workshops enable parents including those with low levels of literacy and English as a second language, to understand and take part. The Home Safety and Baby Burns workshops are available in various languages.
All staff attending the workshops receive a certificate of participation for records of personal development.
Home Safety-"Why do
accidents to children matter"
This workshop covers statistics, facts and figures and prevention methods
covering safety in the home. Graphic
photographs of injury are used to leave
memorable messages with parents in
an attempt to change behaviour in the
home, thus reducing injuries.
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Burns & Scalds-"It burns like fire"
This workshop looks at the trends and costs of injuries caused by burns and scalding, highlighting health inequalities, case studies and injury slides in an attempt to eliminate this type of injury in the home.
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Toy Safety-"Playing it safe"
Delivered to promote a greater awareness to reduce serious childhood injury from the toys children play with, in and around
the home and in organised settings. This session also included choking and poisoning management.
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Paediatric First Aid
Whoops! is one of just a few North East organisations to have 'Training Centre' for this nationally recognised 2-day paediatric first aid training, which carries a 3 year national certificate in paediatric first aid and childhood illnesses. The course covers appropriate CPR/first aid skills for the care of infants and children; in addition adult primary care skills are demonstrated and practiced where appropriate.
This paediatric programme is delivered in-house by registered trainers and is is certified by Medic First Aid-Training for life. This course has received recognition from NVQ qualifications in care.
What to expect - up-to-date information presented in a low-stress learning environment, video segments, hands on practice to develop skills. group working, positive coaching, visual workbook and reference material to take home.
Anti-Social Behaviour & Fear of Crime
A problem that housing managers, local government and communities have to deal with on a daily basis is the "fear of crime"and"fear of teenagers". Such is the anti-social behaviour of both adults and older children in disadvantaged communities that this session is aimed at looking at the incidence and consequence of this behaviour, and focuses on building relationships between the elder population and teenagers.
This session is delivered to community development workers, housing and local government employees, anti-social behavioural units, youth offending teams and any other community organisations working in this field, enabling them to carry out sessions with their client groups.
Home Safety for Volunteers
Whoops! can provide training and resources for you to deliver the 'Home Safety for Volunteers' course within your community.
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