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Train with Lasting Support

Why Train with Lasting Support?

We are a frontline specialist safeguarding organisation. We don’t just teach from a manual, we bring experience from working directly with families, communities, and systems. Our trainers include professionals with backgrounds in social work, therapy, education, youth work, and lived experience of the issues we address.

Our training is consistently described as honest, eye-opening, and immediately applicable. We challenge assumptions, hold space for difficult conversations, and always centre the safety and dignity of children and young people.

What We Cover

We run a wide range of events and training courses, bringing together experts in safeguarding, anti-exploitation work and digital resilience to support you and your team.a

We offer training across a wide range of safeguarding themes, including:

Child protection and abuse — recognising signs, understanding thresholds, and knowing how to respond
Online safety and digital risks — from grooming to exploitation, harmful content to gaming risks
Sexual exploitation — child sexual exploitation (CSE), child criminal exploitation (CCE), and county lines
Radicalisation and extremism — understanding the pathways and how to have the conversation
Domestic abuse — the impact on children and families, and how to support safely
Mental health and wellbeing — understanding distress in children and young people, and trauma-informed responses
Honour-based abuse and FGM — awareness, legal duties, and how to respond with sensitivity and confidence
Emerging and hard-to-talk-about risks — we stay ahead of the curve on new and evolving threats affecting young people

If your team is facing a safeguarding issue that isn’t listed here, please get in touch. We’re used to navigating the complex and the uncomfortable.

Who We Train

Teachers & School Staff

We offer targeted training sessions for educators, DSLs, and school support staff. Our sessions are practical, grounded in real-world school scenarios, and designed to build confidence in identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns, including those that are difficult to name.

Parents & Carers

Our parent workshops are delivered in accessible, welcoming community settings. We meet parents without judgment, offering them the knowledge and language to talk to their children about risk, recognise warning signs, and know where to turn for help.

Multidisciplinary & Cross-Sector Professionals

We work with professionals across health, social care, education, youth work, housing, the police, and the voluntary sector. Our cross-sector training is designed to strengthen collaboration, build shared understanding, and sharpen responses to complex safeguarding situations.

Pupils & Young People

We deliver age-appropriate workshops directly to children and young people in schools and community settings. These sessions are designed to open up conversations about risk, rights, relationships, and resilience in ways that feel relevant and real to young people, not preachy or distant.

Case Consultation

Sometimes a case is complex, and professionals need a space to think it through. We offer confidential case consultation for practitioners working with children and families in high-risk or complex situations. Our consultants bring specialist expertise in exploitation, radicalisation, domestic abuse, and complex trauma, and can help you think clearly when the stakes are high.

TESTIMONIALS

 “The training Lasting Support provided on the radicalisation of young people was very informative. Our staff really enjoyed the interactive sections of the training. The delivery of the training was professional, and staff were positively engaged.”  

 “As a frontline professional, the course was the best and most useful training I have attended in years. The facilitator and young person assisting were excellent. The course had a good balance between facts and practical workshops, and the exercises were informative and experiential, which allowed the participants to share in a safe & comfortable environment. I was introduced to new concepts, particularly the drawbacks of sharing concerns about possible radicalisation too early as the young person may be just exploring ideas with me as an adult. I learned a lot by hearing the survivor facilitator’s experiences of being a young person in the care system.” 

 "The Lasting Support session was insightful, especially with the young facilitator with lived experience giving her own experience of how she was radicalised or manipulated into joining a harmful group. Although it wasn’t a terrorist group, it was still educational to hear it from someone who has experienced grooming personally.”

700

Training sessions delivered

168

Children and Young People engaged

213

Unique locations reached across the UK

2024

Winner of the Young Ealing Foundation Mental Wellbeing Project of the Year.