About this event

For Wyre Forest Schools Early Years

Please accept an invitation to join this free Worcestershire schools early years briefing session. The briefing sessions this year have been arranged in districts to keep numbers manageable in this virtual world and hopefully to be able to address any local issues if necessary.

This briefing will share any local and national EYFS updates and new documentation as well as some key dates in the early years world. We will also explore some top tips on developing your EYFS Recovery plan and some of the aspects contained within, around your priorities.

If you have any specific questions that you would like addressed at the briefing please email gdeakin@worcschildrenfirst.org.uk at least 2 days before the briefing date.


Delivered by Gill Deakin

About this event

• For Designated Safeguarding Leads, designed to refresh and update knowledge on the Early Help and Child Protection Procedures.

• To understand DSL roles and responsibilities

• To understand how and when to make a referral to Family Front Door (FFD)

• To be confident when to share/not share and/or seek advice about information sharing

• To be confident in undertaking an Early Help Assessment

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

Lunch is provided - please ensure all dietary needs are noted at the point of booking

About this event

Aims and Objectives:
• The Youth MHFA two-day course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider. This aims to provide you with
• An in depth understanding of young people’s mental health and factors that affect wellbeing
• Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
* Confidence to reassure and support a young person in distress
• Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgmental listening
• Knowledge to help a young person recover their health by guiding them to further support – whether that’s through self-help sites, their place of learning, the NHS, or a mix – engaging with parents, carers and external agencies where appropriate
• The ability to support a young person with a long-term mental health issue or disability to thrive
• Tools to look after your own mental wellbeing

Lunch is provided on both days - please ensure any dietary needs are noted at the point of booking

Cost: this course is heavily subsidised due to purchase the Education Safeguarding Support SLA. Price is £140 + VAT (£168 inc VAT)

Cost for Early Years Settings & Childminders - £100 + VAT(£120 inc VAT)

About this event

This course is designed as a ‘train the trainer’ course for SENCos and Inclusion Leaders.

It is intended that following this session, SENCos will disseminate this information to their wider school staff.

Aims and objectives:
• To ensure all staff in educational settings and wider teams working with schools develop a secure understanding of the Graduated Response, with the child and family at the centre
• To emphasise the role of class/subject teachers as teachers of all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities
• To better understand each aspect of the Assess-Plan-Do-Review cycle and roles and responsibilities within this process
• To explore effective ways of involving parents/carers and children and young people throughout the support process.

Trainer: Helen Pretty

Cost:
Universal Schools - £20 + VAT

About this event

Anxiety and Emotionally Based School Avoidance: Meeting the Needs of Anxious Pupils in our Schools training is being delivered virtually.

Specifically for those working with Primary School aged children

The training is free due to Worcestershire Children First securing a NHS funding grant

Places are limited to three per school, per course. If you wish to book extra these will added to the waiting list.
Course aims
• Increase our awareness and understanding of anxiety including gaining information from individual pupils about their unique experiences
• Develop understanding of evidence based approaches which schools can use to help children to reduce pupil anxiety
• To understand Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) including prevention and re-integration


Trainers: Educational Psychology team

About this event

Safeguarding Children, young people and vulnerable adults is everybody’s responsibility. This raising awareness of Exploitation & Vulnerability course aims to raise your awareness of:

• Vulnerability
• Adverse childhood experiences
• Organised Crime Groups/Gangs
• Modern Day Slavery
• Consent for sexual activity
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Criminal Exploitation
• Appropriate Language and use of
• National Referral Mechanism
• GDPR/Disclosure
• Pathways/ Diversionary/sharing of intelligence


Cost: Free to schools to attend, for DSL's and DDSL's

About this event

• Increase awareness of the insidious nature of domestic abuse and the invisibility of coercion and control.

• Highlight the prevalence and statistics of domestic abuse

• Increase confidence to be professionally curious and to ask about domestic abuse in a way that makes it easier and safer for people to disclose.

• Increase understanding of victims’ responses to domestic abuse including why they may stay in an abusive relationship

• Explore the links between pregnancy and domestic abuse and the impacts on children both pre-birth and at various stages of development

• Consider the professional responsibility for positively impacting the resilience of children

• Explore the additional impacts on people from marginalised groups including adults with support and care needs, older people and LGBT and minority communities

• Highlight the need for a multi-agency approach and roles of agencies in relation to risk identification and management

• Increase knowledge of how to refer to relevant services when appropriate, including referral to local and national specialist services for victims and perpetrators.

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

About this event

This training is a two-hour session for Designated Safeguarding Leads and Safeguarding Governors.

The learning outcomes are DSLs will have a greater understanding of both the PREVENT strategy and recognizing the early identification of children and young children who are at risk of being radicalized. Prevent is part of the UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy ‘CONTEST’, aimed at preventing people being involved in or supporting terrorism.

Aims and Objectives:
• To understand the aims of Prevent;
• Consider who might be vulnerable;
• See why some people can influence and manipulate others to commit crimes;
• Recognise when a vulnerable individual may need help;
• To be clear about what support is available and who you should contact if you have a concern.

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

About this event

Continuous provision describes the exciting learning that is available in the environment every day to the children, both inside and outside. The well-chosen resources will help the children develop their play, practice their newly acquired skills and have lots of ideas of what to do next.

During this course we will explore part of your essential role as an adult in the early years environment - observing how the children are learning, in other words, the characteristics of effective learning. Where do you see children ‘having a go’ at a new learning opportunity and how do you encourage them to continue? If a child is curious about something they've just seen or heard, how can you encourage them to find out more and still be an independent learner? What might problem-solving look like for a four or five year old? How are you going to identify the next steps for each unique child that you see each day in their play and how can you communicate this information to the rest of the team so that significant moments in a child's learning are acted upon and the child can make progress with their skills and knowledge through that all-important play-based approach to learning.



Delivered by Gill Deakin

Cost: £27 + VAT per person

As the training will be delivered via zoom joining instructions will be attached to your CPD confirmation, please ensure these are forwarded to the delegate.

About this event

• For Designated Safeguarding Leads, designed to refresh and update knowledge on the Early Help and Child Protection Procedures.

• To understand DSL roles and responsibilities

• To understand how and when to make a referral to Family Front Door (FFD)

• To be confident when to share/not share and/or seek advice about information sharing

• To be confident in undertaking an Early Help Assessment

Cost: Free to schools who have purchased the Education Safeguarding Support SLA

Lunch is provided - please ensure all dietary needs are noted at the point of booking