3. Surrey County Council Courses - The Following courses are also available but provided by Surrey County Council for SCC Employees

To apply for these courses: Please complete the attached SCC training application form and email to Corinne Ford at corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk and cc your line manager.

Managing Challenging Interactions

Aim: To provide staff with the skills and self-awareness to handle challenging interaction effectively to result in positive outcomes. By the end of the training participants should be able to:

• Increase their awareness of themselves and others, in order to understand what is needed to enhance the effectiveness of interactions with others,
• Understand the interactions they have with service users, to identify the most effective ways of handling these, given the circumstances in which they find themselves,
• Understand the their impact on the situations they face and how this impacts on the effectiveness of their interactions,
• Explore techniques to manage their own mood to ensure that they are in the best possible state to handle situations effectively,
• Identify individual actions that they want to take to put their learning into practice and to continue to develop themselves in this area.

Safeguarding refresher

Staff in all agencies have a responsibility to ensure that they attend safeguarding refresher training every two years. Learning outcomes: To enable participants to update their knowledge, skills and practice with regard to safeguarding children and young people.  At the end of this training participants should be able to:

• Understand how safeguarding fits in to the Every Child Matters agenda
• Increase their awareness of the current national guidance and framework for safeguarding children and promoting their welfare
• Identify how these impact on participants own work roles
• Develop an action plan for themselves in order to take issues forward.

Pre event requisites: Staff must have attended ‘What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused’ and the ‘Multi Agency Safeguarding Foundation Training.’ Modules 1 and 2.

Understanding the Criminal Justice System - a one-day Professional Development event

This comprehensive event represents a partnership between Surrey County Council Youth Justice Team, Surrey Police, Surrey Magistrates’ Courts and the Witness Support service. The occasion will explain:

• Why different types of offence appear in different types of Courts

• How are magistrates appointed and what training do they undertake

• Profiling offenders and pinpointing risk factors that can lead to offending

• What is the role of the Youth Justice Service?

• What are Community Intervention Groups and their link to ASBO’s

• How is Restorative Justice managed?

• What is Witness Support?

The event will include seeing part of a case at the Court, as well as having the procedures explained by the Director of Legal Services of the Magistrates’ Courts in Surrey. Numbers for this important event have to be restricted to 12 delegates; so early booking is strongly recommended.

If you are interested in attending this course please send an email stating your Title, Name, Position, School, Address, Post Code, Tel, Fax, e-mail address, to corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk who will then confirm availability and booking with you.

Autism Spectrum Teaching Strategies - A half-day Professional Development Seminar  

Student with learning difficulties are ably supported in our schools by dedicated SENCO and classroom staff, but who supports the teachers?

The objective of the seminar is to provide effective classroom teaching strategies enabling all children on the autistic spectrum access to the curriculum. The programme will include:

·         A recap on ASD’s - focus on child, family and teacher/SEN assistants

·         Behavioural issues in the classroom

·         Adaptations to planning

·         Support strategies

The event includes coffee and tea on arrival and delegates are invited to stay for a buffet lunch at the conclusion of the session.

Additionally with over 80 exhibition stands to visit, all brimming with details of local services and organisations offering advice and tips regarding mental well being, there will be plenty of extra material for teachers to take back to the classroom.

If you are interested in attending this course please send an email stating your Title, Name, Position, School, Address, Post Code, Tel, Fax, e-mail address, to corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk who will then confirm availability and booking with you.