Trauma Informed Practice training for children’s social care staff 24/25

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, who work for the London Borough of Sutton.

Aims

The aims of this session are: 

• To better support children who have, or may have, experienced abuse or neglect in their family or settings outside their family.  
• 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:

• An ability to develop knowledge about how trauma-informed systems approaches help improve outcomes for ‘children in need’ under the Children Act '89 and related legislation  
• An increased knowledge about how life events become trauma, and the impact of trauma on the developing brain 
• An improved knowledge about how trauma can impact on attachment styles during childhood and when building future relationships
• An ability to explore 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
• An improved knowledge about the potential impact on children’s presentations e.g. self-harm, emotional dysregulation etc to inform needs assessments and care planning
• An increased knowledge about applying strategies and best practice approaches to respond to presentations in families  e.g. therapeutic parenting, self-care strategies  
• An increased knowledge of when to refer a child for specialist therapeutic interventions e.g SEND needs or complex needs that may require specialist assessment
• An ability to develop strategies to reduce the impact of vicarious traumatic events e.g self-care
• An ability to explore a range of best practice resources, and how to gain access to these.