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Trauma can arise from single or multiple events and can be experienced in numerous ways. Trauma can result in significant physical and mental impacts which in turn may have an effect on behaviour, on recovery and on a range of socioeconomic factors that are themselves a risk for poor physical and mental health. As we know from the research and work on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the impact of trauma can have a significant and often lifelong impact; impacts can also be intergenerational.

The importance of a trauma informed and responsive approach has been elevated by the impacts of Covid-19 on children, young people and adults. Covid-19 has exposed significant inequality and had implications on the levels of need in relation to bereavement, financial hardship, mental health, domestic violence and complex safeguarding across the population. The further development of trauma informed practice across the system is a key part of our recovery and response.

The Adversity and Trauma Network includes professionals from across public sector agencies, VCSE organisations and communities, and experts by experience. As well as delivering Adversity and Trauma awareness raising sessions, the network offers opportunities to share updates and best practice and to build professional relationships and support. We hope that this network will be the mechanism by which cultural change will occur.

This training session is for participants who have signed up to be Adversity and Trauma Ambassadors from a variety of settings and backgrounds. Participants will already have basic awareness of trauma (including ACEs) and their impacts across the life course. This session is aimed at managers or staff in any sector who work with adults or children and would like to know more about how to facilitate the culture change needed to become trauma-informed.
This course is an introduction ONLY to adversity and trauma and trauma-informed approaches.

This course is FREE of charge. If you would like to find out more about joining the network but are unable to deliver training, please contact trauma-informed@southglos.gov.uk

Participants should have been identified within their organisations as Adversity and Trauma Ambassadors and have notified trauma-informed@southglos.gov.uk of their interest in the role prior to attending.

Active engagement in these sessions is required (e.g. camera’s on) so that the facilitator can ensure everyone’s emotional safety. Participants are encouraged to have a named support person they can contact if they need emotional support at any point during the training.

Please note - We will send you a Microsoft Teams invite/link a few days before the training.

For all SGC staff dealing with the public

These sessions are for South Glos Council staff who deal with conflict situations within their job roles. There is a choice of sessions dealing with face to face conflict or over the phone.

For staff who deal with conflict situations in both scenarios it is recommended they attend the face to face conflict webinar as this will cover skills transferable to both situations.

Your department will be recharged £42.50

This support group will be led by Mike Ollive.

The Purpose for the support groups

We realise that fostering can be really difficult at times. Perhaps the only people who really understand it are other foster carers and so therefore we want to give you a place to meet up.

Please note that this support group will be taking place at Badminton Road Council Offices. There will be security on the door to let you in from 18:45. This will be the first face to face gathering to have taken place for this group.

Although these will be informal meetings, each session will have a brief agenda, attendance list, and agreed group rules. This is to help those who don’t know anyone and feel awkward about coming along to a new meeting, to feel that they won’t be left alone on the side-lines.

Sometimes there will be speakers and topics as requested by the group, this will hopefully make it as relevant to your fostering as you like.

These sessions should be recorded on your Personal Development Plan (PDP).

Free online training for SENCOs and early years professionals, led by SALT.

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Anyone with an educational background wanting to develop outdoor teaching skills as a Curriculum Outdoor Coordinator.
This training course fits the needs of educational professionals in the EYFS & National Curriculum.

Entry requirements-
You must be working in an educational establishment and have a relevant DBS.
You must have completed Level 2 Outdoor Learning Practitioner (OLP) course beforehand

The Level 3 Award in Co-ordination of an Outdoor Curriculum fits the needs of educational professionals and the EYFS & national curriculum.
It focuses on developing practical hands-on skills & a range of activities and experiences to use outdoors, developing your outdoor space and grounds.
Do you want to consider how to further develop the outdoor space, enhance the clubs that currently happen outdoors or build confidence to successfully cascade information and embed outdoor learning in your setting, taking a whole strategic approach to using outdoor environments for education and learning?
Become an outdoor ambassador.
• This is a QCF accredited course through Cambium.
• You will have a work book to hand in to complete the course.
• This will approx. take 9 months to complete.

Would you like to motivate and enthuse others to get outside the classroom?
“Memorable activity leads to memorable learning” Robin Hammerton HMI

Sign and symbol themes will be shared from the free to download section of the Makaton hub.

This session is open and free of charge to all South Gloucestershire Early Years Practitioners and Schools.

The multi-agency South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board oversees the Joint Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults in this area. It is essential that a wide range of staff working in local authority, health and social care agencies are fully aware of the key issues in safeguarding vulnerable adults and of how the policy affects them in their front-line roles. The half-day Raising Safeguarding Concerns course is essential training for all front-line staff and managers who are involved in providing services to adults at risk and who work directly with service users. The course content is mapped to the learning outcomes in the local Safeguarding Adults Training Standards (published Dec 2017) as well as to relevant national occupational standards including the Care Certificate (Standard 10). Course attendance is monitored by the Safeguarding Adults Board. The standard charge for this course is £40. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.

We are restricting numbers from each organisation to 4 individuals per course.

If you organisation require a large number of individuals to complete this course, then it maybe possible for in house training to be organised.
Please contact hrworkforcedevelopment@southglos.gov.uk with your requirements.

Please note this session is for Community Group Volunteers only, if you work in a Social Care organisation or charity, please book on Raising Safeguarding Concerns training.

The multi-agency South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board oversees the Joint Policy & Procedures for Safeguarding Adults in this area. It is essential that a wide range of individuals who support adults at risk are aware of key issues of Safeguarding Adults.

This session will equip volunteers who support community groups within South Gloucestershire to identify what safeguarding adults is, how to recognise an adult at risk and what to do if abuse is disclosed or suspected.

This session can also be delivered ‘in house’ to your group either virtually via Zoom or Face to Face as Covid restrictions allow. For more information about this please email hrworkforcedevelopment@southglos.gov.uk or cfry@caringfootsteps.co.uk