Trauma Informed Practice training for children’s social care staff 23/24

Target group

This course is targeted to Children Social Care staff, including social workers, specialist support workers, early help practitioners, PA’s and youth workers.  

Aims

The aims of this session are to enhance practitioners:

• Knowledge and understanding about trauma to better support children who have, or may have, experienced abuse or neglect in their family or settings outside their family.  
• Skills and confidence to identify and address developmental issues and behaviour associated with experiences of trauma to improve outcomes for children and their families.

Learning objectives

At the end of this sessions, participants will have:

• Developed knowledge about how trauma-informed systems approaches help improve outcomes for ‘children in need’ under the Children Act '89 and related legislation  
• Increased their knowledge about  how life events become trauma, and the impact of trauma on the developing brain
• Improved their understanding about how trauma can impact on attachment styles during childhood and when building future relationships
• Explored the various sources of trauma e.g bereavement and loss, witnessing and/or experiencing abuse and violence in the family or among peers. Intergenerational experiences of trauma being passed on from previous generations
• Improved their understanding about the potential impact on children’s presentations e.g. self-harm, emotional dysregulation etc to inform needs assessments and care planning
• Developed knowledge and increased their confidence about applying strategies and best practice approaches to respond to presentations in families  e.g. therapeutic parenting, self-care strategies  
• Improved understanding of when to refer a child for specialist therapeutic interventions e.g SEND needs or complex needs that may require specialist assessment
• Developed strategies to to reduce the impact of vicarious traumatic events e.g self-care
• Explored a range of best practice resources, and how to gain access to these.