Missing from Care Training for Children’s Homes in England | Manager Facilitator Guide and Activities | Word and PDF

Help your team practise responding when a child goes missing from care—and supporting them when they return.

This 23-page training pack gives managers six practical activities using realistic children’s residential-care scenarios, with clear facilitator instructions, discussion prompts and suggested responses.

Activities cover:

• Challenging unsafe assumptions about missing episodes.

• Responding as new information changes the risk.

• Practising police reports and updates.

• Welcoming a child back calmly and checking their immediate needs.

• Understanding police checks and independent return-interview responsibilities.

• Reviewing repeated episodes and developing a prevention plan with the child.

Includes printable scenario cards, role-play resources, worksheets, a local protocol sheet and learning checks.

Run as a two-hour workshop or four shorter team sessions. No PowerPoint or projector needed.

You receive:

• Editable Word document.

• Print-ready PDF.

Designed for non-secure children’s homes in England. Managers must complete the local protocol sheet and use the pack alongside current local procedures and each child’s individual plan.

Independent training resource. Not accredited or endorsed by Ofsted. This workshop does not qualify participants to conduct independent return interviews.