Tender: Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership – Multi-Agency Safeguarding Training Provider (50+ Courses/Year)

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Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership is seeking a supplier for a comprehensive programme of multi-agency safeguarding training for professionals and volunteers working with children and families across Birmingham. The commissioned provider will deliver and manage a programme of over 50 courses and webinars annually, sourcing trainers with relevant skills to deliver interactive, discussion-based virtual and face-to-face sessions that reflect current legislation, statutory guidance and local priorities, incorporate learning from Serious Case Reviews, audits and thematic reports, promote multi-agency collaboration, professional curiosity and effective challenge, and are accessible to statutory agencies, voluntary sector organisations and faith groups. Core themes include child protection fundamentals; child exploitation (criminal and sexual); domestic abuse, coercive control and perpetrator-focused approaches; safeguarding disabled children and cultural competence; FGM awareness; mental health awareness for community and faith organisations; online safety and radicalisation prevention; ACEs and trauma-informed practice; and practice development such as professional curiosity, escalation and the Strengthening Families Framework. The provider must implement robust feedback mechanisms and report attendance and impact data to support consistent, high-quality learning and continuous improvement across the partnership.