🏷️ From £90
🎧 Designated safeguarding leads, Mental health leads, Counsellors, Pastoral support workers
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up

Course outline:

Such is the scale of the mental health crisis that organisations providing services for children and their families, including schools, are holding significant numbers of cases where concerning behaviours and deteriorating mental health become a safeguarding risk

Training topics will include

• Unmet emotional wellbeing and mental health needs
• What new neuroscience tells us about the impact of childhood trauma and adversity on behaviour
• How to respond to troubling behaviour in the light of this new neuroscience

Learning outcomes

• Increased knowledge and understanding of what may cause behaviours of concern
• Interventions that support and de-escalate behaviours of concern informed by new neuroscience
• Holding safeguarding risk and reviewing to identify when safeguarding escalation is needed

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Speaker:

Nick Pidgeon, Social worker and educational consultant

Nick has worked in residential childcare, and as a social worker, a social work manager, and a social work inspector. He became the second consultant this side of the Atlantic to the Residential Child Care Project at Cornell University, New York. For over 30 years he worked with the project contributing to writing and reviewing training programmes and delivering these programmes for the university. He has been an independent consultant for over 20 years and has delivered training and consultancy throughout Britain and in five other countries on three continents – America, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Russia.

John Gibson, DDP Practitioner

Dr Gibson is a social worker by primary qualification and holds a Doctorate in Professional Studies from Middlesex University.  He is Certified Practitioner in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy.  He worked in residential childcare as a home manager for twenty years Barnardos and Belfast Central Mission.  He was consultant to the Residential Child Care Project at Corell University NY.  He lives in County Donegal, Ireland where he a private practice in supporting foster cares and children.  He is also Reflective Practitioner Group Facilitator for two residential services providers in Ireland.