Multi-Agency Training

In order to support Practitioners working with children, young people and their families, there is a wide range of training that is delivered by services within Gloucestershire County Council or community partners. This multi-agency training can be accessed by both internal and external agencies including early years providers, schools, health and voluntary organisations.

For further information, please click on the relevant green drop-down below.

*REVIEWED SEPTEMBER 2023*

Advisory Teaching Service Training

The Advisory Teaching Service (ATS) provide a range of training and support including Autism, FIZZY coaching and supporting pupils with literacy needs.

As well the advertised training all teams can offer bespoke training for your setting. Please discuss your needs with your advisory teacher.

For further information regarding training available please click HERE.

Additional details including contact information can be found online at Advisory Teaching Service.

Early Years Team Training

The Early Years Service provide early years and childcare courses in Gloucestershire, which are designed to support implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage and are delivered by the Local Authority Early Years Service team and colleagues. Training includes Gloucestershire Total Communication (GTC) and Managing Behaviour.

For further information and details of current training, please click HERE.

Educational Psychology Service Training

The Educational Psychology Service (EPS) provide a range of training and support including ELSA, Nurture Groups and Emotion Coaching as well as the interventions that our educational psychologists can deliver directly with children and young people.

For further information regarding training available please click HERE.

Early Help & Graduated Pathway Training Modules

Early Help Advice, Guidance, & Support training can be booked HERE

The training offer has been designed in this way to reflect training that is relevant for different Early Help partners in our community: those practitioners who require a general awareness, and those directly supporting children & families.

Early Help Awareness

An introduction webinar to Early Help in Gloucestershire. ‘Early Help’ is an umbrella term that describes the work of many agencies engaged with children and families including health services, schools, learning providers, local authorities, voluntary sector, children and family centres, police, housing providers and many others.

We are all engaged to a greater or lesser extent in work that seeks to avert a problem developing and preventing difficulties from escalating or the deterioration of circumstances which could adversely affect children, young people and families.

Participants will gain an understanding of the model of what Early Help for children, young people & families in Gloucestershire and gain an overview of the supportive tools & resources available and know where to gain advice, guidance, and support for children, young people & families.

Practitioner Training Modules

These are subject specific training courses designed to support those working directly with children, young people & families. This is integral learning for all practitioners supporting families using the Graduated Pathway of Early Help & Support. This is Gloucestershire’s model of early help assessment and planning process which provides an integrated and holistic framework to support all practitioners working with children and young people and families.

Practitioner training modules have been developed for practitioners working directly with children, young people, parents, and carers. The modules have a focus on a particular area of Early Help and link together to improve a learner’s knowledge & practice.

Course details:

The Graduated Pathway of Early Help & Supporting Children & Families

This training is designed to up-skill practitioners in using Gloucestershire’s Graduated Pathway of Early Help and Support to make a difference for Children & Families.

Participants will gain an understanding of Informed Consent in Early Help support; understand and gain confidence in using Gloucestershire’s Graduated Pathway to support children & families; understand how the pathway links with Gloucestershire’s Levels of Intervention guidance and how to use them to inform our response. This will also focus on the importance of working together with other agencies and professionals and understanding the role of the Lead Practitioner as well as escalating concerns, when necessary, within the pathway.

Assessment & Analysis: Making use of Information

This training will focus on gathering and making sense of information around the needs of children, young people & families.

Participants will gain an understanding of how to gather relevant and useful information to inform our supportive work with children & families.

Participants will leave training with the tools to be able to complete good quality assessments in conjunction with multi agency partners; and to make sense of this to produce a robust, strength-based analysis reflecting the families’ situation that inform the actions needed to improve outcomes.

Team Around the Family (TAF) Meetings

This training will give participants strategies to plan, prepare, deliver, and develop robust Team Around the Family meetings, which support families to explore their lived experiences.

Participants will discuss how to get the most from multi-agency meetings; facilitating in-person, virtual or hybrid TAF meetings; managing conflict and acrimonious relationships whilst keeping child at the centre of the process. The training will also focus a restorative approach in TAF meetings, in which high challenge/high support is a feature.

Writing & Reviewing a My Plan

This training will focus on creating a simple, meaningful plan to support children & families to make and maintain sustained change.

Participants will be able to write a Plan/My Plan which identifies needs and achievable outcomes when supporting children & families; including single or multi-agency involvements; understand how Needs, SMART Outcomes, Actions, and Resources form a Plan; identify sustainable resources; and to facilitate a Review process that identifies progress for children & families.

Listening to and Engaging with Children & Young People.

Participants will learn a variety of ways to gather the Voice of the Child and keep children & young peoples’ views at the centre of supportive working. Participants will explore the tools that have been developed by the Ambassadors and other practitioners to support writing assessments and plans and, importantly, to understanding the child’s lived experience.

Neglect Training

Neglect Toolkit Training Workshop

This training will develop awareness and recognition of ‘neglect’ and the impact that neglect may have on children and young people.

For further details, including bookings, please visit the 'Training and Workshops' section of the Directory, which can be accessed by clicking HERE and type Neglect to search.

NSPCC Training

NSPCC training

NSPCC training for Schools

Parents’ Relationships Matter Programme Training

Gloucestershire’s Parents’ Relationships Matter Programme has a range of resources and training for practitioners to support your work to improve the relationship quality of the parents you work with. In addition to this we also have a Parents’ Relationships Matter Champions Group which supports the programme in its development and delivery.

Training for Practitioners

Within Gloucestershire we have training programmes and workshops which can be found here.

Simply register with Glosfamilies Directory and request practitioner access- allowing 24hrs to verify registration. Once signed into the directory you will be able to book on.

Select Course Name (listed below) as and hit search to find out dates and locations of upcoming training.

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Parents’ Relationships Matter Awareness Webinar

Who is the training for?

This webinar is for anyone who works directly or indirectly with parents and carers of children and young people.

What can I expect to learn?

This introductory session will help you to:

Gain a greater awareness of what is meant by good parental relationship quality and why this all matters

Recognise why constructive conflict is okay and the signs that a relationship may be in distress

Understand what the evidence base tells us about the impact of parental relationship quality on children and young people.

Develop skills to recognise and identify the impact on children

How is the training delivered?

The webinar is pre-recorded, and you can watch it anytime below.

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Strengthening Parents’ Relationships - Practitioner Training

Who is the training for?

This training is for anyone who provides direct and targeted work with parents or families.

What can I expect to learn?

Focusing on the causes of relationship distress, this workshop equips Practitioners with the skills to work with parents to identify and explore relationship distress.

Engaging with fathers and other significant males
An overview of the Amity Relationship Toolkit which is used by frontline family support workers in Gloucestershire.
Understanding the difference between domestic abuse and conflict
Identifying and managing risk with complex couple conflict

On completion of the training, practitioners will be provided an electronic version of the Amity Relationship Toolkit and a certificate.

How is the training delivered?

This is a digital training, which takes place on Microsoft Teams. Link to Book Here

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One Plus One - Digital Tools to Improve Parental Relationships

Having constructive, supportive relationships has never been more important. These evidence-based resources have been built to help couples strengthen their relationship and manage their unresolved conflict, and to help separated parents understand how unresolved conflict can affect their children.

You will be trained in the use of three digital resources designed to improve parental relationships with three different audiences:

• Me, You and Baby Too (for new parents)

• Arguing better (for parents experiencing stress and conflict)

• Getting it Right for Children (for separating or separated parents)

Who is the training for?

This training is for anyone who works directly with parents or families.

What can I expect to learn?

The sessions aim to enhance your knowledge, understanding, skills, and confidence to work with parents. By the end of the training you will be able to:

• Raise parents’ awareness of the impact of unresolved and frequent conflict

• Use digital resources to help parents recognise the impact of conflict on their relationships.

• Enable parents to develop positive communication skills and helpful conflict resolution behaviours.

How is the training delivered?

This is a digital training, which takes place on Microsoft Teams. Link to Book Here

It is delivered over two separate sessions. Each day’s training is three hours. The second session includes time for delegates to undertake some independent learning. To complete the course successfully BOTH sessions must be completed.

Session 1:

• The impact of parental conflict on children’s outcomes.

• Background to the design of the digital resources.

• Introduction to OPO digital resources.

Session 2:

• A chance to explore the digital resources for yourself.

• Skills for working with parents.

• Further help and support.

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Resources for Parents/Carers on Parental Relationships

Parents/ Carers can use these online resources independently or with your involvement and support the resources support those parents who are part of a couple or those that co-parent their children.

The practitioner guides for each of the three programmes can also be found within the download section to the left. The download section also includes "Getting on Better" cards which are digital resources from the programme.

If you identify parents/carers who would benefit from support with improving their communication, managing relationship stress and resolving conflict in healthy ways please sign post them to the course that is the best for them using the link below to the One Plus One digital resources.

Courses and training to support working with children and young people who have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Across Gloucestershire there is lots of training opportunities for professionals, practitioners and support staff to access. The purpose of this page is to provide an overview of the courses and training to support you in working with children and young people who have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

Managing the environment, sensory needs and motor skills

Assessing and Improving Memory Skills for pupils with SEND

Training for Educational Professionals

This course is for teaching staff working with pupils in Key Stage 1 and 2 with:

Memory difficulties that exist as part of other conditions & syndromes.
The impact of poor memory skills in the classroom.
Assessing for difficulties with memory.
Strategies and practical activities to promote and improve memory skills.

Intended outcomes

For participants to gain knowledge and understanding of how poor memory skills can impact on learning.
For participants to be able to implement strategies and advice from the course to more effectively support the children with poor memory skills that they work with.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

Language and Communication Training including Autism

C&I Top Tips for Reception Children with Social Communication Difficulties or Autism

Training for Educational Professionals

This session is designed to support children in their reception year at school. This first session is a 'Top Tips' session giving ideas and strategies for support.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

AET Early Years Making Sense of Autism

Training for Educational Professionals

The purpose of the course is to gain a better understanding and awareness of autism and the way it affects children in early years settings.

This course is suitable for following staff:

Childminders
Nursery nurses/assistants
Teachers
Lunchtime Staff
Senior management and governors
Service staff such as administrators

Intended outcomes:

The importance of understanding the individual child on the autism spectrum and their profile of strengths and weaknesses.
To identify the key areas to help children on the autism spectrum build positive relationships with staff and their peers.
To know that many children on the autism spectrum can be unusually sensitive to everyday sights, sounds, touch, tastes and smells. This can affect their learning and emotional state.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

AET Schools Making Sense of Autism

Training for Educational Professionals

The purpose of this course is to gain a better understanding and awareness of autism and the way it affects young people in education settings.

This course is suitable for following staff:

All post-16 staff
support staff
admin staff
caretakers

Intended outcomes:

Enhance your understanding and awareness of autism and how autism can affect young people in post-16 settings
Know the importance of understanding the individual young people and their profile of strengths and needs
Identify potential barriers to learning for autistic young people
Begin to make reasonable adjustments in the way you support autistic young people
Reflect on the information you need to collect for creating a one-page profile

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

AET Post-16 Making Sense of Autism

Training for Educational Professionals

The purpose of this course is to gain a better understanding and awareness of autism and the way it affects young people in education settings.

This course is suitable for following staff:

All post-16 staff
support staff
admin staff
caretakers

Intended outcomes:

Enhance your understanding and awareness of autism and how autism can affect young people in post-16 settings
Know the importance of understanding the individual young people and their profile of strengths and needs
Identify potential barriers to learning for autistic young people
Begin to make reasonable adjustments in the way you support autistic young people
Reflect on the information you need to collect for creating a one-page profile

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

AET Autism and Anxiety

Training for Educational Professionals

The purpose of the course is to understand what we mean by anxiety, how it appears in autistic pupils, what the key triggers are and what delegates can do to support autistic pupils and prevent and reduce anxiety.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

AET – Schools Good Autism Practice

Training for Educational Professionals

The purpose of the course is to gain practical knowledge and discover hands-on tools and techniques to support pupils with autism in your setting.

The session is suitable for practitioners working with school-age pupils on the autism spectrum in both mainstream and specialist services. This includes:

teachers
senior management
teaching assistants
any other practitioner

What will you learn?

To develop your knowledge and understanding of good autism practice.
To reflect on and improve your practice through guidelines and activities.
How to use the schools autism competency framework to evaluate and develop how you work.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

Oliver McGowan – Learning Disabilities and Autism Mandatory Training

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

This training is named after Oliver McGowan. Oliver was a young man whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better skills, knowledge and understanding of the needs of autistic people and people with a learning disability.

There is two parts to this training, the first is an e-learning module and the second is a face-to-face session.

Both parts 1 and 2 can be accessed via LearnPro– if you work outside of Gloucestershire County Council you can sign-up to access this for free: https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/training-for-health-and-social-care-professionals/multi-agency-training/e-learning/

Part 1 can also be accessed via e-learning for healthcare or access through e-learning for healthcare: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Social Narratives and Comic Strip Stories

Training for Educational Professionals

Social Narratives and also Comic Strip Stories are tools to change social behaviour. This course will help participants understand the advantages of using these strategies, and how and when to use them.

This training is suitable for staff working with autistic children and young people or children or young people with social communication difficulties. This may include:

SENCOs
Teachers
TAs and pastoral staff

This course covers:

When and how to use Social Narratives and Comic Strip Stories
How Social Narratives and Comic Strip Stories use the strengths of children with autism and social communication difficulties to explore and change behaviours
Social Narratives and also Comic Strip Stories are suitable for all young people, but have been developed for CYP on the autism spectrum

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

Support for Autism and Social Communication

Training for Educational Professionals

This course covers how best to follow EHCP strategies to develop the skills of children and young people. Developing a social and emotional regulation programme and developing staff confidence and experience to deliver and develop this programme.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

Supporting autistic young people and those with social communication needs transitioning to primary school

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

Autism Awareness

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

This e-learning has been made to explain what health and care staff need to know and do in order to effectively provide healthcare to autistic people.

Accessed via e-learning for health: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Children and Young People with Mental Health Needs, Autism or Learning Disabilities – Learning Disabilities and Autism Module

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

This module on autism and learning disability focuses on what healthcare professionals need to know and do to provide an equal service for this patient group. There is an emphasis on hearing from those with lived experience, ensuring their voice enables a better understanding of their needs. There is a wealth of practical information to help us all adapt our communication and provide a wide range of reasonable adjustments to clinical practice and service delivery.

Accessed via e-learning for health: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Delivering Sensory Health Services

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

An interactive, video-based learning course, focused on equipping professionals working in the fields of eye care, dentistry and audiology with the skills needed to provide health services to children and young people with learning disabilities and/or autism in a special residential school or college setting.

Accessed via e-learning for health: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Best Start in Speech, Language and Communication

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

This programme offers guidance and information links for professionals working with children and families to promote speech, language and communication (SLC) development in the early years.

Accessed via e-learning for health: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Attention and Concentration Difficulties including ADHD

Supporting children with attention & concentration difficulties (including ADHD) in the classroom

Training for Educational Professionals

The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of how students with attention and concentration difficulties may present in the classroom and strategies/resources to support them. This course can be adjusted for primary or secondary schools, and to meet school staff development objectives.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

Disabilities

Oliver McGowan – Learning Disabilities and Autism Mandatory Training

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

There is two parts to this training, the first is an e-learning module and the second is a face-to-face session.

Part 1 can also be accessed via e-learning for healthcare or access through e-learning for healthcare: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Children and Young People with Mental Health Needs, Autism or Learning Disabilities – Learning Disabilities and Autism Module

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

Accessed via e-learning for health: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Social Emotional and Mental Health Needs

Use of positive language to address SEMH needs

Training for Educational Professionals

Staff who support children with SEMH issues, including those with additional learning needs.

The course will look at the types of difficulties children may experience in the setting and the behaviours that may be observed consequently. We will explore a range of strategies to help support children with SEMH in the classroom with a consideration of those with learning needs.

Outcomes

To develop delegate's understanding of possible underlying causes of behaviour and to begin to develop consistent preventative strategies.

To access this course visit GCC Plus GCC+Training: All courses (gccplustraining.org).

Your setting will need to be signed up to the GCC Plus system to access this training.

Healthcare Support Worker Certificate – Children and Young People’s Mental Health Inpatient Settings programme

Training for Healthcare Professionals

The (Children and Young People Mental Health) Healthcare Support Worker Certificate was funded by the Quality Improvement Taskforce. It was created by Health Education England in collaboration with experts across the system, included young advisors and parents with lived experience of mental health inpatient care. Healthcare Support Workers (or other similar support roles) make up a high percentage of the children and young people's mental health workforce, and therefore have significant influence to support young people and their families within inpatient services. The Healthcare Support Worker Certificate aims to provide a standardised approach to care across the country and improve the quality of care for children and young people who require admission to specialised inpatient units.

Accessed via e-learning for health: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

Mental Health e-learning ‘Train the Trainer’ Course

Training for Educational Professionals

This has been designed in conjunction with CYPS and is an incredibly accessible tool.

Course Aims

To help all primary and secondary school staff to understand the more common mental health problems children and young people may face.
To recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health problems
To guide a child or young person towards the right support
To help children and young people cope and manage their lives.

This course is for:

All primary and secondary school staff wishing to develop their knowledge and skills around Mental Health. It is intended that after receiving training, delegates will then ask questions on how to then deliver the package themselves. All participants will need a laptop or tablet and internet access to complete the session, which lasts 90 minutes.

If you would like the trainer to come in to school to deliver this FREE training, to arrange a date please email us with your name, school name, phone number and possible dates to ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

National Educational Leaders in Mental Health Training

Training for Educational Professionals

This is a three-day course for Headteachers, Deputies and other Senior Leaders covering culture, ethos, staff wellbeing. Upon completion, participants will achieve a Level 4 Certificate in Mental Health Aware Leadership (Educational Leader) in addition to accreditation as a National Educational Leader in Mental Health.

This pathway is for Headteachers, Deputies and other Senior Leaders who are also undertaking the role of Designated Mental Health Lead and want to make the impact in their setting as well as in the community, pupil’s lives and potentially other schools or colleges.

Delivered by local providers (Educational Psychologists and GHLL practitioners), this training involves in-depth coverage and discussion of the multiple facets of what is a complex topic in your setting. It covers the requirements for the mental health lead training, but applies it more broadly to your setting’s ethos, culture and staff wellbeing, in addition to pupil mental health.

Participants will need to complete some self-study (in a topic that is relevant to your setting) and keep a portfolio to gain evidence of meeting the requirements of a lead and become certified. To register for these courses and learn more about how to apply for the £1200 DfE grant, please go to:

Advanced Mental Health Lead Training

Training for Educational Professionals

Three-day course for established mental health leads taking them to the next level and extending their skills. Upon completion, participants will achieve a Level 4 Certificate in Mental Health Aware Leadership.

This second programme is for Mental Health Leads who sit outside the senior leadership positions. The aim is to explore topics relating to the Designated Mental Health Leader role in more depth and develop your skills, knowledge and understanding. Delivered by local providers (Educational Psychologists and GHLL practitioners), the training lasts three days and covers the full DfE specification for the role.

https://mentalhealthlead.com/funded-lead-training/

Children and Young People with Mental Health Needs, Autism or Learning Disabilities – Mental Health Module

Training for Health and Social Care Professionals

This mental health domain offers a range of material to identify, understand, manage and engage with mental health presentations in an acute setting. The breadth of the information available includes:

Quick guides.
Lived experience from individuals with mental health needs providing equity, balance and perspective to areas of mental health, through the eyes of the service user.
Signposting information for the young person/their carers allowing the clinician to provide first line, prevention and positive support.
Practical support in considering some ‘grey’ areas of mental health and complexities of patient journeys.

Categories:
-Understanding common mental health presentations
- Mental health assessments
- Intervention options
- Self-guided interventions
- Management – including risk
- Communication and approaches in mental health
- Identity
- Case complexities in mental health

Accessed via e-learning for health: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/

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