Substance-use awareness
Frontline staff, youth services and support teams
Recognise patterns of concern, understand emerging risks and practise supportive conversations.
Discuss this session →Professional training
Substance use and safeguarding training for professionals
Waymark Education delivers evidence-informed training for local authorities, safeguarding teams, health services and wider professionals working with children and young people where substance use, vulnerability and wider risk often overlap.
Sessions are designed to feel current, credible and useful in practice, helping professionals strengthen confidence, judgement and proportionate response around safeguarding, prevention, resilience and emerging concerns.
Workforce development
Briefings, CPD and tailored sessions shaped for real professional settings.
Three practical starting points
Based in Staffordshire, supporting teams across Stoke-on-Trent and the Midlands. Choose one focus or discuss a tailored combination.
Safeguarding and vulnerability
Safeguarding leads, pastoral and partnership teams
Connect substance-related risk with vulnerability and agree proportionate responses and escalation.
Discuss this session →Multidisciplinary workforce development
Health, education, local authority and community partnerships
Build shared language, explore relevant scenarios and identify practical next steps across services.
Discuss this session →Who this is for
For services working with children, young people and complex risk
This offer is designed for teams and partnerships looking for practical, audience-aware input that strengthens professional confidence and supports better conversations, better judgement and better decisions.
Local authorities
Safeguarding partnerships
Early help and family support teams
Youth services
Public health teams
Community safety teams
Health and education professionals
Voluntary and community organisations
What training can cover
Current themes, practical relevance
Sessions can be shaped around your audience, remit and context, whether the focus is workforce awareness, safeguarding response, prevention or wider professional confidence.
Substance use, emerging trends and adolescent risk
Vaping, cannabis, nitrous oxide and wider patterns of concern
Vulnerability, contextual pressures and safeguarding
Professional confidence in difficult conversations
Prevention, resilience and earlier response
Multi-agency understanding and proportionate practice
Example briefings
Practical sessions that are easy to commission
Training can be tailored, but these examples give a clearer sense of the kinds of briefings and workforce sessions Waymark Education can provide.
Emerging youth drug trends, vulnerability and risk culture
Substance use, safeguarding and adolescent decision-making
Practical responses to vaping, cannabis and wider substance-related risk
Supporting professional confidence around emerging concerns
Why Waymark
Clear, credible training for real professional settings
Waymark Education is built for services that need training to feel measured, relevant and genuinely useful in practice.
The focus is not just awareness, but helping professionals recognise concerns more clearly, respond proportionately and feel better equipped when navigating complex issues around substance use, safeguarding and vulnerability.
Frontline-informed
Grounded in experience across education, safeguarding, outreach and wider support contexts rather than generic theory alone.
Useful in practice
Sessions are designed to leave teams clearer on what they can recognise, say and do in real settings.
Audience-aware
Delivery is shaped around the service, the room and the level of complexity professionals are navigating.
Non-alarmist
Clear, credible facilitation that avoids overstatement, jargon and scare-based messaging.
Formats
Flexible delivery for teams, services and partnerships
Sessions can be commissioned as one-off briefings, tailored CPD, team development input or wider partnership training.
Conference workshops and briefings
Twilight and half-day CPD
Multi-agency training sessions
Team development input
Leadership and service briefings
Tailored workforce development
Also working with schools and specialist settings?
Explore the wider Waymark offer
If you are commissioning across more than one part of the system, Waymark Education also provides tailored delivery for schools, alternative provision and SEND / specialist settings.
Enquiry
Looking for a tailored professional session or workforce briefing?
Whether you are planning a team session, partnership briefing or a wider training offer, Waymark Education can help shape something practical, current and properly matched to your audience.
Planning your training
From your enquiry to a tailored session
Tell us what you need
Share your audience, location, approximate group size, preferred dates and the topics you want to cover.
Agree the right approach
Discuss your priorities, learning needs, accessibility and a suitable session format before confirming the scope and cost.
Put learning into practice
Focus the session on understanding risks, having better conversations and making informed decisions in your setting.
Based in Staffordshire and supporting schools and professional teams across Stoke-on-Trent, the Midlands and the wider UK. Ask about delivery arrangements for your location.
Request a tailored quote