Upcoming events
ASK0128 : Youth Mental Heath First Aid Training
This two day course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider, giving you:
- 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-judgemental 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.
- 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.
Each session is built around a Youth Mental Health First Aid action plan
Learning takes place through a mix of presentations, group discussions and workshop activities
ASK0094 : Nominated Governor Safeguarding
(Introduction to Safeguarding session must have been attended)
Most schools recognise the importance of the Governing Body nominating an individual governor to champion safeguarding and child protection issues within the school. This person is often known as the “Safeguarding Governor”. It is important that such governors fully understand the responsibilities of this role and the part they can play in monitoring and helping to develop more effective practices.
ASK0113 : Mental Health First Aid Training
Youth Mental Health First Aider : This two day course qualifies you as a Youth Mental Health First Aider, giving you:
- 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-judgemental 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.
- 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.
Each session is built around a Youth Mental Health First Aid action plan.
Learning takes place through a mix of presentations, group discussions and workshop activities
Both days must be attended
ASK0063 : Mastering Your Craft - New or Established Senior Leader Programme
For new or established Senior Leaders looking towards Headship and beyond. This course will focus on whole school change management enabling leaders to consider how their personal values and educational philosophy can be applied in a variety of contexts.
This will be delivered remotely via Zoom.
Full Day 1 Friday 16th April 2021 9am to 3.30pm
Session 2 - Friday 14th May 2021 8.30am-12pm
Session 3 - Monday 28th June 2021 8.30am-12pm
ASK0096 : Designated Safeguarding Leads – Refresher Training Sessions
This full day course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.
As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.
This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.
The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.
Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee
Note: DSL courses cost £130.00 for non members. ASK members receive 1 free place per membership cycle.
ASK0122 : NET Developing your Craft - Aspiring Middle Leader Programme
NET Developing your Craft
Aspiring Middle Leader Programme – Shifting to conscious leadership
For aspiring or new Middle Leaders, this course provides the introduction and development of departmental or phase leadership and the key shift from operator/manager to thinking and doing as a leader.
This event spans multiple dates and ALL must be attended.
Full Day1 – Monday 19 April 2021 - 9.30am to 3.30pm
Half Day 2 – Monday 24th May 2021 8.30am-12pm
Half Day 3 – Monday 12th July 2021 8.30am to 12pm
ASK0126 : Leading a Mentally Healthy School
Both dates must be attended
26/04/2021 - 09:00 - 15:30
21/06/2021 - 09:00 - 15:30
This is a two-day programme aimed at senior leaders of all phases to enable reflection and action planning around whole-school approaches to mental health provision.
The programme has been developed by Health Education England (HEE) and the School Development Support Agency (SDSA) in partnership with an expert group of educational psychologists, education consultants and mental health organisations. The programme has recently been updated to consider some of the implications linked to the impact of Covid -19 pandemic on mental health.
The aims of the programme:
• to enable and empower senior leaders to put mental health at the heart of strategic school improvement.
• to equip senior leaders with practical and sustainable approaches that can be implemented on return to school.
ASK0123 : Extending your Craft - Aspiring Senior Leader Programme
Extending your Craft
Aspiring Senior Leader Programme
For aspiring or new Senior Leaders, this course focuses on the shift to considering the big picture and how personal leadership impacts at a whole school level and also offers practical sessions on elements that may sit outside of educational expertise such as finance and HR.
This event spans multiple dates and ALL must be attended.
Full Day 1 Monday 26th April 2021 - 9.30am to 3.30pm
Half day 2 Monday - 14th June 2021 8.30am-12pm
Half Day 3 Monday - 5th July 2021 8.30am-12pm
ASK0108 : Designated Person for LAC
The Improvement Focus is to meet the statutory requirement of all Schools for ‘Looked After Children’, and is recommended for the Designated Person for Looked after Children and LAC Governors.
This programme is being held on 2 separate dates over the 2020/2021 School year – 15.9.2020 & 05.05.2021. Both sessions are the same, please just book onto one.
ASK0090 : Designated Safeguarding Leads – Refresher Training Session
This full day course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.
As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.
This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.
The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.
Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee
Note: DSL courses cost £130.00 for non members. ASK members receive 1 free place per membership cycle.
ASK0095 : Nominated Governor Safeguarding
(Introduction to Safeguarding session must have been attended)
Most schools recognise the importance of the Governing Body nominating an individual governor to champion safeguarding and child protection issues within the school. This person is often known as the “Safeguarding Governor”. It is important that such governors fully understand the responsibilities of this role and the part they can play in monitoring and helping to develop more effective practices.
ASK0093 : Newly Appointed Designated Safeguarding Leads Training
Single Agency Training for Newly Appointed Designated Safeguarding Leads in Schools
As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.
This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.
The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years.
The course we have planned meets the statutory requirements of this training for new or recently appointed Designated Safeguarding Leads.
Objectives
To ensure that the participant can identify:
- What the safeguarding agenda actually means for schools;
- Current legislation which informs the role of the DSL;
- The role and responsibilities of the DSL;
- The importance of early help, signposting, interagency working and interventions to safeguard vulnerable children/young people;
- The categories and possible indicators of the 4 categories of abuse and areas such as Grooming, FGM, CSE, Forced Marriage, So Called Honour Based Violence,
- Radicalisation and Extremism;
- The impact of issues such as Domestic Violence, Peer-on-Peer Abuse and Mental Health problems on children/young people;
- How best to communicate with children/young people and parents/carers regarding Child Protection issues;
- How to seek advice and support and how to refer concerns;
- How to keep, transfer and archive Child Protection records.
Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee
Note: DSL courses cost £130.00 for non members. ASK members receive 1 free place per membership cycle.
ASK0091 : Designated Safeguarding Leads – Refresher Training Session
This full day course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.
As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.
This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.
The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.
Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee
Note: DSL courses cost £130.00 for non members. ASK members receive 1 free place per membership cycle.
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ASK0054 : Teach Mindfulness to Children
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Mindfulness practice increases children’s awareness of self, others and help them to direct their attention and control distraction. In partnership with MISP (Mindfulness in Schools Programme), Inspire is offering training to teach mindfulness to primary aged pupils through the paws b curriculum. This is a high quality training where the techniques and materials provided are fully grounded in research and evidence based practice emanating from Oxford, Cambridge and Bangor Universities.