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Code: SGC/24/0484 Non Violent Resistance

Claire Greenham, WAYPOINT Team Manager will be leading a short introduction to Non Violent Resistance (NVR). This introduction course will be a chance to hear about the NVR principles, how they can be used to strengthen relationships and bring about positive changes to displays of trauma. The course will also be an opportunity to discuss some of the misconceptions around NVR and think about how NVR fits with other approaches.

The session will start at 10am, we will have a break at 12pm for 30 minutes.  The session will go through from 12:30 until 2pm finish.

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.  Room F17

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1 14 May 2024 10:00 - 14:00 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/24/0485 Equality and Diversity training for foster carers

We all know that Care Experienced people have a greater likelihood of experiencing inequalities. We also know that when ‘care experience’ is coupled with factors such as ‘Sex’, ‘Race’, ‘Disability’ etc. young people talk to us about experiencing ‘double discrimination’.  In this session, let’s be clear about the inequalities faced by Care Experienced people and talk together about the actions we could all take to reduce and eliminate them.

Our tutor Dan Wood will ask this at the start of the session if is there anything in the broad area of ‘equality and diversity’ that you would like to find out about? Please consider this as Dan will weave an answer into the training session.

This course is aimed at carers who can`t make daytime courses.

Any questions call Chris Hill on 07749003099 or email chris.hill@southglos.gov.uk prior to the 

Please Note: By booking onto this course, you are consenting to your contact details being passed onto the trainer. This is so they can send the MS TEAMS/Zoom invitation to you.

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1 15 May 2024 10:00 - 12:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/23/0839 Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Mod 1: Professional


If you work with Children please book onto the Children's Services version of this course

Please note you have to do this training programme in order.

For SGC staff only:
Additional learning resources here: Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty (Sway resource)
Request to shadow a MCA assessment here: Peer Shadowing Network Yammer Group


South Gloucestershire Council has launched a new interactive training programme that gives Health and Social Care Workers the skills, knowledge, confidence and practice to apply and comply with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The programme is made up of interactive learning workshops. The new skills and knowledge gained from the workshops are then applied in the workplace.
The programme is designed for Care Provider managers, Social Worker and Occupational Therapy staff and managers, nurses and all other professionals working in health and social care.

The standard charge for this course is £49. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.

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1 15 May 2024 09:30 - 12:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/24/0197 Effective Multi-Agency Working In Adult Safeguarding (EVENT FULL)

Please note that by booking this course you are giving permission for you email address to be sent to the trainer.


It is recommended that you attend the "Raising Safeguarding Concerns" course before you attend this training

Safeguarding Adults is an important part of effective practice within social and healthcare.
The role of a manager/practitioner in ensuring that staff respond appropriately to a safeguarding concern is vital. Staff need to be well informed and confident about their own responsibilities in safeguarding adults so that they respond appropriately when concerns are identified.

This 1-day course will support managers/supervisors, Social Workers/OTs and other practitioners including in healthcare to be clear about their role, how Making Safeguarding Personal impacts on it, and how to make decisions about what to do next.

The standard charge for this course is £103.50 per day. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.


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1 16 May 2024 09:30 - 16:30 Microsoft TEAMS Map

Code: SGC/24/0274 Legal Literacy & Defensible Decision-Making

By booking onto this course, you are consenting to your contact details being passed onto the trainer. This is so they can send the invitation, and any further resources, to you.

Please join the meeting prior to the 9.30 start, so you have time to check that the technology is working.

This workshop is for South Gloucestershire Council Adult Care practitioners ONLY.

The session will explore the importance of legally literacy and defensible decision-making in effective practice. Included will be a focus on:

• defining and developing an understanding of what is meant by both terms, from both a theoretical perspective and from your experience/practice
• ways to continue to develop your knowledge of the legal framework and how to ensure that it underpins your practice
• professional accountability and the importance of accurate analysis, free from bias, to inform your professional opinions and defensible decisions

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1 16 May 2024 09:30 - 16:30 Webinar: Microsoft Teams Map

Code: SGC/24/0364 Life Story Work (EVENT FULL)

This is a 3 hr workshop to explore direct work skills that can be used when working with young people.

The focus of these sessions will be to give awareness of Therapeutic life story work as well as general life story work which can help children understand their life story and promote their identity and attachments.

The workshop will be facilitated by Rhian Phillips and Grace Beckett who will use principles from Richard Rose’s Therapeutic Life Story Work Diploma.

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1 16 May 2024 09:30 - 12:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/24/0486 Virtual School Keeping in Touch Days with Foster Carers - Drop in Session

The Virtual School value the time they spend with carers, and to enable this to be an even more successful partnership between school and home, have arranged four sessions to take place over the school year.

This fourth session is a being held as a twilight 'Drop in'.  There is no specific focus for this session, rather it is a means for you to have access to the Virtual School and to raise any questions/concerns that you may have.  Equally if there are any Virtual School updates or developments, these will be shared with you at this session.



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1 16 May 2024 13:00 - 14:00 Webinar: Microsoft Teams Map

Code: SGC/24/0378 Domestic Abuse Training

Please note that you must be able to attend both sessions in order to complete this training.

This course is deemed Mandatory by the Adult and Childrens Senior Leadership Team. The Learning and Development will be contacting the line managers of South Gloucestershire Council staff to ensure that your work time will be protected (i.e. that you will be deemed ‘unavailable’ to work that day and free of all distractions).

If you are unable to complete both sessions within the course you will be asked to complete both sessions at a future date – it will not be possible to attend your second session on another cohort.

This new 1.5-day training programme is for staff who work with adults, children, young people and families based within statutory and voluntary/independent sector organisations across South Gloucestershire.

The aim of the programme is to promote effective multi-agency working between professionals and organisations aligned to national/local legislation, policy, guidance and best practice. A key focus will therefore be person/child-centred practice that promotes positive outcomes for those who lives are affected by domestic abuse.

The first half-day session will be delivered virtually via MS Teams. This will provide an opportunity to refresh and develop your knowledge base including in relation to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and key learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews. The importance of trauma informed practice underpinned by professional curiosity will be explored.
Throughout the session delegates will be encouraged to generously share their practice experience with colleagues, learn from others and move beyond knowledge, understanding and theory to application in their practice.

Delegates must attend day 1 and undertake an individual research/reflective task before attending day 2 of this training.

The second session will be delivered in-person, with a primary focus on exploring, developing and embedding best practice within the landscape of effectively multi-agency/disciplinary working. A broad range of topics will be included, e.g. intersectionality, child-centred practice within a whole family approach, effective risk assessment/monitoring and safety planning, professional self-care.

Throughout the session delegates will be encouraged to generously share their practice experience with colleagues, learn from others and move beyond knowledge, understanding and theory to application in their practice.

The individual learning task, along with active participation in both sessions are integral to the completion of the programme.

If you are from an external organisation and fail to attend one of the sessions you will still be charged for both sessions.

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1 20 May 2024 09:30 - 14:00 Webinar: Microsoft Teams Map
2 21 May 2024 09:30 - 16:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/24/0111 Race Awareness for Managers, Senior Practitioners and Senior Social workers only (EVENT FULL)

This course is for Managers, Senior Practitioners and Senior Social workers only

Those attending must have already completed the Race Awareness course beforehand.

  • Safe Space – to Share Current challenges
  • How to handle reports of Racism from employees?
  • Empathetic Listening skills
  • Radical Listening Skills
  • How to avoid Gas lighting
  • Pathways to support Internally
  • Empowering line managers to take action using their autonomy
  • Increased knowledge around internal Policies
  • Increased Knowledge of External Support
  • Understand what Self-Care is and its importance
  • Managing allegations
  • Allyship and Role Model Behaviour
  • How to identify and manage racism within the team and in social care workers practice
  • Encouraging managers to integrate race equality into their agenda at their team meetings


All staff will be offered support where needed by the trainer and the organisation

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1 20 May 2024 10:00 - 13:00 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/24/0488 Training for Connected carers/SGO - Trauma and Attachment

What is it? This is a new dedicated Induction, Training and Support Group for Connected Carers, Including Special Guardians Why are we running it? We recognise that your situation is very different to that of main stream foster carers. The new role that you find yourself in now, is often not a pathway you may have planned on taking. Unlike foster carers, you are thrown in at the deep end without having had a course to prepare you for what lies ahead, and how ‘The System’ works. This course aims to do that as well as recognise the particular difficulties that you as ‘Kinship Carers’, whatever your role, face. How will it run? There will be six sessions, each lasting approximately 2-2.5 hours, which will take place over the course of a year. It is hoped that you will attend all six, but as new carers arrive, they can join the programme at any stage. The sessions will be led in the main by Social workers from our team. There will be light refreshment of tea and coffee provided at each session, but it would be rather nice if we could take it in turns to bring and share some food. The first session will be catered for, but we will discuss how this works for future sessions at the end of our first meeting. This session will focus on: Trauma

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1 20 May 2024 10:00 - 12:30 Microsoft TEAMS Map