About this event

This informative half day event will offer you advice and guidance covering the most pertinent attendance issues affecting our schools.

NEW – Supporting Children with Medical Difficulties – Guidance to Schools
The Children’s Services Portal – How to use, When to access and What to send
Fair Access Protocol 2020 – The new process explained
Updates on: Admissions, Children Missing Education & Elective Home Education
Persistent absence – What more can schools do?

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

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Specifically for Early Years PVI Childminders and settings

• 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: Early Years settings - £24 + VAT

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This introductory three-hour session raises awareness of young people’s mental health. It aims to enhance knowledge around:

• Some of the common mental health issues affecting young people, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis

• Skills to work more effectively with young people living with mental health issues

• Ways to support young people with a mental health issue and relate to their experiences

Cost: This course is heavily subsidized by the Safeguarding SLA. Price per delegate is £50 + VAT (£60 inc VAT)

Cost for Early Years Settings & Childminders - £32 + VAt (£38.40 inc VAT)

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This webinar will consider the latest government guidance (DFE: October/Nov 2020) in developing and supporting effective remote learning.

Based on current research from the EEF, we will consider and review key principles for remote learning and review effective strategies and activities that can support, build and sustain the implementation of remote learning. We will also provide colleagues will an opportunity to review current practice, it's effectiveness and consider possible areas for further development.


Delivered by Rachael Baldwin

Cost: £16 + VAT per person

As the training will be delivered via zoom joining instructions will be issued approx. 7 days before and to only those with confirmed places on CPD

About this event

Wellbeing for Education Return Covid-19: Supporting Resilience and Wellbeing of Students and Staff is being delivered virtually.

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

Places are limited to two per school, per course. If you wish to book extra these will added to the waiting list.

Session 1: we will be exploring the themes of resilience and wellbeing in order to create a shared understanding of: vocabulary and research around resilience and wellbeing; how the pandemic has impacted on the development of resilience and wellbeing; biological responses to stress and how the brain influences learning and behaviour; and different ways to promote resilience and wellbeing in schools following the pandemic.

Session 2: will have a more practical focus, exploring strategies that schools can employ to assess and promote resilience and wellbeing on an individual, group and whole-school level. In this session we will also outline local and national support services and resources which schools can access to enable them to foster resilience and wellbeing well into the future.

Trainers: Holly Brighton and Laura Jellicoe

About this event

Managing behaviour is often seen as one of the biggest challenges for Newly Qualified Teachers.

This session provides an opportunity to:
• explore the reasons for poor behaviour
• consider the difference between poor behaviour and additional needs
• examine a range of practical classroom strategies to manage pupils’ behaviour

Audience: NQT, RQT and Teaching Assistant only

Free as part of the NQT SLA

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

This course will be delivered via Zoom or Microsoft Teams and instructions on how to join will be issued approx. 7 days before course date.

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Aims and Objectives

• To enable Senior Leaders to understand the role of the Designated Senior Lead for Mental Health (DSL-MH) and have a clearer understanding of the current context surrounding mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and adults working in UK schools.

• To enable Senior Leaders to effectively assess their school’s current mental health and wellbeing provision and to develop a clear plan for improvement.

• To enable and empower senior leaders (DSL-MH) to prioritise and develop the mental health and wellbeing of their students and staff through the development of a practical, sustainable and cost-effective long-term Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

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)

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“I was just learning how to be independent, how to be confident enough ask questions, how to choose my own learning and be curious about new experiences and then along came that virus. I still need to learn these skills please”
What does the play based approach look like for your Year 1 children? How are you helping them manage their own learning? How are you getting the balance of play and teach directed tasks right for your current group of Year 1 children? How are you assessing their learning? I expect there are many many questions about your provision at the moment that you would benefit from having answered or explored further so why not join in with this session where we can address many transition issues as well as celebrate what is working well for this unique group of Year 1 children.

Delivered by Gill Deakin

Cost: £16 + VAT per person

As the training will be delivered via zoom joining instructions will be issued approx. 7 days before and to only those with confirmed places on CPD