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Code: SGC/24/0554 Total Respect

Total Respect is a national training course, designed with the help of young people in care, about being in care. It aims to help adults understand the needs and experiences of children and young people in care, how we can listen to children and young people, act on their wishes and feelings, and what we need to do to make sure this is effective. Total Respect is unique in that care-experienced young people co-deliver the training. It is, therefore, an excellent opportunity for staff and counsellors to learn from young people themselves whilst developing their skills and knowledge to actively promote childrenðs rights and participation.

Please bring a notepad, pen and your own cup. Tea and coffee will be provided but not lunch.



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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 24 October 2024 09:30 - 14:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
2 25 October 2024 09:30 - 14:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
3 12 February 2025 13:00 - 16:00 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/24/0599 ASYE Academy - Kit Bag/Direct work with children and families

First session; will include you picking up your kit bag and looking at ways to use the items for direct work with the people you are working with.



Second session; A kit-bag reflection and visit’s fundamentals, takes place two months later with Katie Middleton to reflect on visits and direct work

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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 08 January 2025 10:00 - 12:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
2 05 March 2025 10:00 - 13:00 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/25/0059 Systemic Practice - Key Skills and Techniques

This 3-day practical, practice focused workshop will introduce attendees to key systemic practice ideas, skills and techniques which we can all use in our day-to-day work with children and families. Each day will provide attendees with some systemic theory with practical examples of how these ideas can then be used with children, young adults and families.

This course will be an opportunity to meet practitioners from different parts of the service, learning together and trying and experimenting with new ideas and approaches.

Day 1 – What goes on in families?
Day 2 – How we work with families?
Day 3 – Working with risks and networks

Who is this course for? This course is open to all staff who work either with or supervise practitioners who work directly with children, young adults or families. No previous experience of systemic practice ideas or theories is required – but you are of course most welcome if you have accessed systemic training in the past.

This course sits alongside and compliments the STAR programme and is a key component of our practice model.

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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 28 January 2025 09:30 - 16:00 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
2 25 February 2025 09:30 - 16:00 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
3 25 March 2025 09:30 - 16:00 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/24/0552 Women in Leadership (Winter)

This inspiring and engaging three day programme is for existing female managers who wish to progress in their careers and aspiring managers and leaders. We have created the content so women at all stages of their careers can benefit from it.

The programme seeks to address the under representation of women in management roles and is designed to build confidence, informal networks and develop our collective understanding of women as future leaders in their lives, team and workplace.

This three day programme will provide participants with an opportunity to focus on personal and professional goals and give ongoing support to achieve them. The workshops are designed to be engaging, fun and interactive, as well as impactful and thought provoking.

Participants will consider themes such as self-awareness, self – leadership, personal impact and influence, and how the actions the take can help them flourish in careers and gain greater job and life satisfaction. It will contain a mixture of discussions, self reflection and self-stud. There will be essential pre-course work, networking and homework tasks in between sessions.

Please note: This is a women only programme,

This course is free to South Gloucestershire Council staff. For all external delegates there is a charge of £368.

You will embark on 100 days of change and at the end of the programme create a 12 month plan.

Day 1: The FREEDOM Method – This day is about self-leadership and personal development. The stages are - find out about yourself, review where you are now, experience and learn, explore possibilities, decide, overcome obstacles and make it happen, you will also begin 100 days of change.

Day 2: Personal impact and influence – leadership, generating presence, influence and persuasion, assertiveness and negotiation, personal networks and goal review

Day 3: Inspirational women and leadership – review of progress and achievement – inspirational women – leadership styles - mentoring – career advancement - goal setting for 12 months.


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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 30 January 2025 09:30 - 16:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
2 31 January 2025 09:30 - 16:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
3 08 May 2025 09:30 - 16:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/25/0081 Train the Trainer Workshop - Safeguarding Adults

This course is only available to book via invitation only

Prior to attending Train the Trainer Workshop there is an expectation that new network members will have attended the Multi Agency Raising Safeguarding Concerns course and ideally also attended the Effective Multi Agency Working in Adult Safeguarding.

Attendees must be able to attend both sessions of workshop.

The workshop is aimed at those who are new to delivering safeguarding adult training sessions to groups or any trainer looking for fresh ideas and a structured approach to their training. It will be a practical workshop to equip new trainers to deliver raising safeguarding concerns within their own organisations.

Following attendance of the Safeguarding Adult Train the Trainer Workshop you will be observed delivering your safeguarding adult training, it is expected that the observation will be carried out within an agreed timescale of attendance of the train the trainer workshop. Verbal feedback will be given after the session has been observed and followed up with written feedback, any recommendations that are suggested will be followed up prior to sign off.
 
Following successful completion of observation you will be invited to join the Trained Trainer Network. This network meets every 4-6 months to share experiences and learning, to swap ideas on best practice and new materials, and to support each other in the key tasks of building and maintaining safeguarding adults good practice.

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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 05 February 2025 09:30 - 16:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map
2 12 February 2025 09:30 - 16:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/25/0029 Attachment, Trauma and Recovery

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Meeting ID: 835 5663 9878
Passcode: 369134

In order to add this training to your training record, please could we ask that you use your full name when logging into the Zoom call.

This workshop provides an opportunity to consider attachment theory; application and intervention; trauma theory; impact and assessment; and recovery planning and assessment. Designed with the specific aim of informing, engaging, and delivering an understanding of historical, biological, observational, cultural and neuroscience attachment…...the very core of what it is to be.
The day will set out attachment and trauma perspectives based on casework for child and family social workers, education, residential care professionals and family placement professionals, kinship and foster and adoption carers.
Drawing on child development and attachment theory the workshop will seek to assist attendees in assessing and developing attachment based interventions so that we have the professional language and the professional/personal skills and confidence in this key area of trauma recovery practice.

The workshop will be led by Richard Rose, Director of Child Trauma Intervention Services Ltd (CTIS) which seeks to engage with children affected by early life trauma and to help them achieve their full potential. Richard undertakes consultancy and training on Life Story Therapy and working with 'hard to reach' children and adolescents and develops academic training programmes in the UK and internationally. Prior to founding CTIS in 2011, Richard worked in the UK in local authority child protection and in the highly regarded residential therapeutic treatment agency SACCS, including four years as the Clinical Practice Director of the Mary Walsh Institute. Throughout his career, Richard has worked with children and their carers in out of home care and family placements, with the aim of enabling placements to become healthy and nurturing through enhanced understanding and attachment. He is the author of three books including Life Story Therapy: A new therapy for traumatised children – A model for practice, published in 2012 and Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work 2017. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University.

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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 11 February 2025 09:30 - 16:30 Webinar: Zoom Map

Code: SGC/25/0017 Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Essentials for Care Workers

Please note if you are a Social Worker you should book onto the Professional version of this course.



This training course provides Care Workers with the essential skills and knowledge to apply and comply with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 when carrying out their role.

The MCA applies to every health and social care worker who is involved in the care, treatment or support of people who are unable to make all or some decisions themselves. Care Quality Commission Inspectors are increasingly asking care workers to explain their responsibilities under the MCA.

The MCA provides legal protection from liability for carrying out care and treatment of people who lack capacity to consent, provided that care workers:

• Understand the principles of the MCA
• Have carried out a capacity assessment and reasonably believe that the person lacks capacity.
• Reasonably believe the action they have taken is in the best interests of the person.

Learning Outcome
1. Understand what mental capacity is and what might affect the mental capacity of the people you work with
2. Be able to identify the decisions you are responsible for in your workplace
3. Be able to apply the MCA principles to the decisions you are responsible for
4. Be able to carry out an assessment of capacity
5. Be able to act and decide in the person’s best interests where they lack capacity for a particular decision.

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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 11 February 2025 09:30 - 12:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map

Code: SGC/25/0025 Recognising & Responding to Organisational Abuse & Neglect


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

The Teams room will open at 09:15, with training beginning promptly at 09:30.



YOU WILL NEED TO ATTEND A RAISING SAFEGUARDING CONCERNS COURSE BEFORE ATTENDING THIS TRAINING.

Managers of agencies that provide services for adults at risk must ensure they lead a "safe service", with competent staff and an organisational culture that safeguards adults. This 1-day workshop will help delegates to understand and be accountable for the key factors in managing and preventing organisational abuse in the services they lead and/or review.

For full-day courses – 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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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 11 February 2025 09:15 - 16:30 Microsoft TEAMS Map

Code: SGC/25/0133 Reflective Supervision for Supervisors - A Research in Practice Event for CSC and PS

This session has been arranged specifically for practitioners in CSC and PS who carry out supervisions.

It is widely acknowledged that for supervision to be effective it should be reflective and that it should include critical analysis, reflection and emotional support. To a large extent, this is dependent on the skills, knowledge and availability of the supervisor. This workshop is designed for supervisors to support and empower them in the delivering of effective reflective supervision. This workshop introduces the participants to the fundamentals of reflective supervision, offering a mix of presentation, film, individual work, small group and large group discussion. The aim is to create a space for open discussion and reflection for participants encouraging people to share their experience and their practice wisdom.

The workshop will:

Build practice supervisor’s confidence, skills and knowledge in reflective supervision. This workshop will set out your role in supporting practitioners in direct practice with children, young people, adults and families.

You will discuss what reflective supervision is and will practice using a reflective cycle. You will also explore how the emotional impact of work can be addressed in reflective supervision.

During the workshop, you will consider your role in supporting inclusive and anti-racist supervision and how issues of inclusion, diversity and power can be acknowledged and addressed through the supervisory relationship.

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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 11 February 2025 10:00 - 16:00 Webinar: Microsoft Teams Map

Code: SGC/24/0601 ASYE ACADEMY - Critical reflection - what tools can we use to support our reflective work



Critical reflection - what tools can we use to support our reflective work


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Session Session Date Session Time Session Venue Map
1 12 February 2025 10:30 - 12:30 Kingswood Civic Centre Map