William Morris School

William Morris College is committed to ensuring that staff are well-trained and able to support the many and complex needs of learners with SEND. Supervisions and appraisals are used to identify staff training needs and inform the training plan. Training needs analysis is done on an annual basis in the form of a staff survey.

Over the course of an academic year we have a minimum of three training weeks where mandatory and additional training is offered.

• Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk. These two mandatory training topics are offered on a rolling programme staff accessing one each year to ensure compliance with college policy)
• Health and Safety (including fire safety)
• Medication
• First Aid/First responder
• Manual Handling
• De-escalation
• Infection Control
• Food Hygiene

Additional Training Offered or attended during the last academic year:

• Autism awareness training (Leading to Level 3 OCN accreditation) – 25 staff (August 2014)
• Studio III (de-escalation/intervention) training – 15 staff
• Fire Marshall Training – 10 staff
• Databridge training – 20 staff
• HANDLE (autism) support strategies – Level 1 – 20 staff
• Mental capacity training – 20 staff
• Sign-a-long – 20 staff
• Mental Awareness training – 2 day training – 6 staff
• Intensive interaction – 1 staff

Staff are able to access external training events as identified relevant to their role and CPD needs. During the last academic year this has included:

• Safeguarding young people with LDD
• PTLLS
• Level 7 Leadership and Management
• E-safety modules
• JISC Assistive technology training
• NVQ's in Health and Social Care (Level 2 to 5)
• Conferences
• SEND Reform training/briefings