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4.3 LSCB Training SubgroupThis report looks at the first year of the LSCB tri borough training programme from April 2011 – Until March 2012. It will explore theattendance and the evaluation from participants who have attended the face to face courses. The report will also provide a briefupdate in relation to the e-learning programme that has been offered. This report has been compiled by the LSCB Multi agencytrainer who has delivered or co-facilitated most of the courses.The E-learning package was a package that we inherited from Kensington and Chelsea as they continue to have licences untilNovember 2012. There have been some concerns raised in relation to content of the courses and it is unclear as to whether we willcontinue with this package once the licence is completed. There has been little take up of these courses. This form of training is verynew and requires participants to be confident in the use of computers and the internet. This may inhibit some of the participants fromusing it. LSCB training team will be looking to how we can further use this form of training to enable larger numbers to access thetraining and further develop staff.Page 256The programme aims to use the expertises of professionals working within the tri borough area however at times we have usednational experts. By using local knowledge we are able to provide tailor made packages for the professionals within our tri borough.The LSCB trainer is able to provide assistance in how to ensure the training packages engage all different learners. However whenwe are required to use national experts we have been relying on this as a measure of goodwill and not making a financial contributionto these organisations and it may be a consideration for the next programme and an amount to be agreed.When embarking on this programme we envisaged training being run at an average of 80% of capacity and 80% attendance rate. Wehave exceeded our expectations and our courses are running on average at 90% capacity. We have addressed the issue with lowcapacity in relation to introduction to safeguarding and Parental substance misuse and have reduced our delivery of this training. Inrelation to the young person’s substance misuse we have removed this from the calendar for the time being however will review thisat the training sub group. Furthermore our attendance rate is at 89%. The only course that falls below this is the Parental MentalHealth and Safeguarding Children. It is unclear as to why we have had a low attendance rate for this course and further enquiry isrequired unto this. Within this first year we have offered we have offered 67.5 full days of training and have expanded to 12 differentcourses.Hammersmith and Fulham appears to have the larger rate of application and attendance across the three boroughs. However if oneconsiders employee population this may account for the disparity between Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea,though it does not account for the low numbers from Westminster which would have the same population as Hammersmith andFulham.The statistics in relation to organisations have been difficult to correlate as the data is reliant on self description. It has been agreedthat within the new application system this will be more regulated to ensure that our data is more reliant. This will enable us to be- 39 -