Education • Safeguarding • Public health • Professional training
Practical education and professional training around substance use, safeguarding and risk
Waymark Education works with schools, alternative provision, SEND and specialist settings, Local Authorities and professional teams supporting children, young people and families.
Training is evidence-informed, grounded and non-alarmist — helping people build confidence, understand emerging risks and respond proportionately where substance use, vulnerability and safeguarding concerns overlap.
Professional, practical, audience-aware
Briefings, CPD, pupil sessions and tailored training delivered in a clear, grounded and engaging style.
Frontline-informed
Training shaped by real experience across education, safeguarding, health and wider support systems.
Commission-ready
Suitable for schools, Local Authorities, safeguarding teams, public health, youth services and multi-agency audiences.
15+ years
Frontline-informed education and training experience
50,000+
Young people reached through direct delivery
Cross-sector
Work across education, health, safeguarding and community services
Schools to systems
Support for schools, AP, SEND, Local Authorities and professionals
Cross-sector experience
Experience across education, health, safeguarding, public services and community settings
Drug training and substance use training
Looking for practical drug training for schools, services or professional teams?
Waymark provides drug training, substance use training and drug awareness training for schools, alternative provision, SEND and specialist settings, Local Authorities, safeguarding teams and wider professionals working with children and young people.
Explore by setting
Training for education, safeguarding and wider professional settings
Waymark supports organisations working with children and young people where substance use, vulnerability, safeguarding and wider risk often overlap.
Pupil education and staff CPD
Substance use education for school communities
Age-appropriate pupil sessions, assemblies and staff training around substance use, vaping, decision-making, safeguarding and risk.
- • Pupil sessions and assemblies
- • Staff CPD and DSL briefings
- • Practical, non-alarmist education
Relationship-aware delivery
Practical training for alternative provision
Flexible sessions for AP, PRUs and higher-complexity settings where trust, realism, engagement and safeguarding context matter.
- • Adapted pupil sessions
- • Practical staff briefings
- • Risk, vulnerability and context
Accessible and audience-aware
Adapted training for specialist settings
Sessions shaped around communication needs, accessibility, pacing, safety and meaningful engagement for specialist learners and staff teams.
- • Adapted content and pacing
- • Staff development for specialist teams
- • Communication-aware delivery
Workforce training and briefings
Professional training for services and partnerships
Commissionable briefings, CPD and workforce training for safeguarding, public health, early help, youth services and multi-agency teams.
- • Local Authorities and partnerships
- • Health, safeguarding and youth services
- • Substance use, vulnerability and risk
Why Waymark
Clear, credible training for real-world settings
Waymark is built for organisations that need training to feel practical, proportionate and genuinely useful — whether the room is full of pupils, school staff, safeguarding leads, Local Authority teams or wider professionals.
The focus is not just awareness. It is helping people understand risk in context, recognise concerns earlier, have better conversations and respond with confidence.
Practical and proportionate
Focused on what people need to understand, notice and do — without scare tactics or overstatement.
Multi-agency aware
Informed by work across schools, health, policing, public health, Local Authorities and wider support services.
Audience-aware facilitation
Sessions are shaped for the room, whether that means young people, DSLs, pastoral teams, leadership groups or specialist professionals.
Safeguarding and vulnerability lens
Substance use is explored in context, alongside vulnerability, adolescent decision-making, peer influence and wider risk.
In real settings
Delivery that feels practical, credible and properly matched to the audience.
Local Authorities and professional services
Briefings and workforce training for services working with young people, vulnerability and risk
Waymark provides professional training for Local Authorities, safeguarding partnerships, public health teams, youth services, early help, community safety and wider organisations supporting children, young people and families.
Sessions can be commissioned as one-off briefings, tailored CPD, team development input or wider partnership training.
Emerging youth drug trends and risk culture
Substance use, safeguarding and adolescent decision-making
Vaping, cannabis, nitrous oxide and wider patterns of concern
Professional confidence in difficult conversations
Vulnerability, contextual pressures and earlier response
Multi-agency understanding and proportionate practice
About
Experienced facilitation, grounded in real-world practice
Daniel specialises in drugs education, safeguarding, risk, resilience and professional development, drawing on more than 15 years of experience across schools, specialist settings, outreach, health, safeguarding and workforce training.
The approach combines frontline-informed insight, evidence-informed content and calm, clear facilitation for both young people and professional audiences.
Feedback
What people have said after recent sessions
Common themes from recent talks, briefings and training sessions.
“The session was really clear and easy to follow. It gave us practical things to take away, not just information.”
Pastoral Lead, Secondary School
“It felt balanced and realistic. The content was serious, but it didn’t feel like a scare talk.”
Designated Safeguarding Lead
“Daniel clearly understands the pressures young people are facing. The examples felt relevant to what we see in school.”
Teacher, Alternative Provision
“The training helped staff feel more confident about what to look for and how to respond.”
Safeguarding Team Member
“It was pitched really well — professional, calm and very engaging.”
Senior Leader, Specialist Setting
“Useful, current and practical. It connected substance use with wider safeguarding in a way that made sense.”
Youth / Family Support Professional
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Planning pupil education, staff CPD or professional training?
Whether you need a school session, AP or SEND support, staff training, a professional briefing or a commissioned session for a wider service or partnership, Waymark can help shape something practical, current and audience-aware.