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To address how children are supported to maintain and develop family contacts and friendships, subject to any limitations or provisions set out in their care plan and any court order.

Spelling is a crucial element of the English curriculum and plays a key part in improving standards in writing throughout KS2. The day will focus on developing an approach to spelling and specific strategies to meet the expectations of the curriculum. Our goal is to support children to become confident, accurate and independent in this area so that it ceases to be a barrier to their progress in writing.

All employees who want a deeper understanding of what motivates, provokes and inspires them and those concerned about the consequences of unconscious biases within their workplace.

• review: what is Unconscious Bias?
• how does Unconscious Bias effect the workplace?
• self-awareness: from ‘Unconscious Biases’ to ‘Conscious Choices
• strategies for effectively managing workplace biases

Due to the nature of this topic, the maximum number of participants is 10 and a degree of openness and readiness to participate in the programme is required.

This course is facilitated by experienced foster carers, it aims to give newly approved carers an introduction to understanding of how to parent children who have suffered trauma. It addresses some of the challenging behaviours and offers varied coping skills and strategies. It is also provides an ideal refresher course for more experienced carers.

This Interactive course will help to raise confidence and competence. You will gain an insight into your own training style and learn tips and techniques to develop and deliver a high impact and engaging training experience.  You will gain experience of delivering micro-training sessions and receive feedback to help you develop your skills and confidence. 

Due to the highly interactive nature of the workshop, you will be required to bring a short (5-10 minute) training session or part of a training session that you have pre-prepared. This should be relevant to your role as you will apply the learning from the course to refine and develop this session.

To ensure that staff understand and apply at all times the fundamentals of customer-service excellence. The focus being on the maintaining of high quality customer service despite the changing climate.

To ensure that ESCC staff maintain and enhance the reputation of the Council by highlighting why good customer service is vital to the on going success of ESCC. To be achieved by fulfilling all obligations within the Customer Promise and the Customer Values.

It is essential that you complete Our Customer Promise e-learning module prior to attending this workshop.

This course covers general sign posting for families key miles stones, enabling families to access online services and information digitally, delivered by the Family Information Service in Children's Services who established the Parent Information Contact (PIC) https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/childrenandfamilies/familysupport/parent-information-contacts/ scheme in 2007. 

Workshop for frontline staff in working with parents including;  

children's centre frontline staff, social workers, keyworkers, health visitors,  community nurses and any CS staff that work with families.

You will need to bring a laptop and/or smart phone to the training

The course will enable participants to work directly with children and young people who are experiencing or are at risk of criminal and/or sexual exploitation.

We will also look at how the community, professionals and children and young people themselves often respond differently to boys when it comes to child sexual exploitation and what we can do about this.

Important note: It is essential that you have undertaken the Safeguarding Children (or an equivalent Safeguarding/ Child Protection Awareness course within your own organisation, and Child Sexual Exploitation e-learning courses prior to coming on this course, see additional information under full details), or you may be turned away.

This training session is suitable for new foster carers wishing to care for babies under two and experienced carers wishing to update their practice

In these days of constantly changing working practises, restructuring and redundancies this kind of statement is all too common in the workplace.

The problem with negativity is – it’s infectious! This course can help managers deal with negativity, stop it spreading and help staff to regain their enthusiasm and motivation.