In person training for volunteers and staff at Walthamstow Library. (Tea and coffee provided). 

Local authorities have a statutory duty, defined under Section 14 of the Children Act 2004, to have a local Safeguarding Children Board, which follows guidance from Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018.

The two purposes of the WFSCB are to:

• Oversee the multi agency child safeguarding arrangements across Waltham Forest.
• Carry out statutory function in Waltham Forest, ensuring the effectiveness of local agencies that provide services for children.

Responsibilities of representatives

• The representatives of the WFSCB hold statutory partners to account for the work they undertake to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Waltham Forest.
• Headteacher representatives on the Waltham Forest Safeguarding Children Board (WFSCB), and its subgroups, provide professional challenge and ensure voices of children are heard.

Waltham Forest Mental Health Support Team webinars

Waltham Forest Mental Health Team present to you webinar dates for 2025. These webinars cover a range of topics around mental health and wellbeing. They are accessible to all residents of Waltham Forest.  

Please download the poster to share with the families you work with.  

This training session is for all those working/volunteering with children in Waltham Forest and will be delivered by Caroline Coyston and Susannah Bennett, LADO and Safeguarding in Education.

Works to build on, and maintain, the quality and effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements in the education, community, voluntary and faith sectors to help improve safeguarding outcomes for all children.

This free webinar aims to raise awareness of neurodiversity for professionals supporting young people, with neurodivergent speaker and expert J. Grange outlining his experience. The attendees will learn more about neurodiversity, the strengths and challenges of neurodivergence, the power of thinking differently and how we can create a neuro-inclusive society.

Outcomes: To be neuro-inclusive, with better understanding of neurodiversity and to understand how to support neurodivergent individuals. 

Develop understanding of cultural competence and increase self-awareness of cultural values and beliefs on family dynamics.

Explore how discrimination, prejudice, and oppression create inequalities and impact children and young people.

Waltham Forest Mental Health Support Team webinars

Waltham Forest Mental Health Team present to you webinar dates for 2025. These webinars cover a range of topics around mental health and wellbeing. They are accessible to all residents of Waltham Forest.  

Please download the poster to register for the webinar. 

This event will be led by Afshan Rasheed, Urgent Response Coordinator - Serious Youth Violence and Exploitation LBWF & DS Joshua Palmer, North East BCU Child Exploitation Unit. It is open to all those working/volunteering with children in Waltham Forest. 

This awareness raising session will focus on information sharing. Information sharing is essential for identifying patterns of behaviour, or circumstances in a child’s life that may indicate they need some form of support or protection. Children and young people vulnerable and at risk of extra familial harm can often move across boroughs and counties. This training session will focus on information sharing and importance of cross borough information sharing. The session is open to anyone who works with children and young people.

The session aims to support practitioners in understanding and being confident to share information for the purposes of safeguarding, with the focus on cross borough information sharing. The session will also focus on how to effectively complete an 87A to request for an exploitation strategy meeting.

An hour’s taster session giving a top-level awareness overview of hidden harm and harmful traditional practices.

Join one of our KoothTalks sessions to learn more about supporting young people with anxiety and eating difficulties.

As incel ideology becomes more mainstream, we must understand its impacts on young people’s mental health and safety.