This course provides essential information, guidance and professional development for Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs).

This 2-day face to face classroom based training programme will provide staff with the skills, knowledge and understanding to undertake the role within an educational setting, ensuring compliance with the latest additions of Keeping Children Safe in Education and Working Together to Safeguard Children, as well as locally developed guidance and documentation.

In order to gain your certificate, you must attend both days training, however you may start in the role of DSL after completion of the first day.

Please see “Additional information” for further important details.

This is a live interactive virtual classroom, delivered through Microsoft Teams.

These short, focused training sessions are intended to help school staff and data protection leads develop their knowledge and understanding of a specific aspect of data protection, to ensure that their school can meet their obligations under the UK GDPR. This virtual training session focuses on information security incidents and data breaches.

Experienced Information Governance Officers will also be available through the online chat function to provide advice and support throughout the session.

These sessions will be run online using Microsoft Teams, however you do not need to have this software installed in order to take part. The sessions will be accessible through a hyperlink, which will be emailed out to all participants before the event and can therefore be accessed on any device with internet access, either through a web browser or through Teams itself.

This virtual workshop is free* to schools that have bought into the comprehensive Information Governance Traded Service (IG4/IG5). For any queries about this event, or for guidance about the use of Microsoft Teams, please contact Schools.DPO@eastsussex.gov.uk.
*Up to 8 places

Important. Please see ‘Additional Information’ for further information about joining instructions.

ISEND - EYES Search and Viewing only

EYES Search and View is a half day of remote hands on training for East Sussex County Council users to familiarise themselves with the Childrens ISEND LiquidLogic platform. This course is designed to show you how to navigate LiquidLogic, find clients and view case data and includes viewing scanned/uploaded images held within ECaseFile

This course is for anyone joining an ESCC team that uses EYES whether to view client data or input data into the system.

Prerequisites 

• As a new staff member your manager must request that a LiquidLogic account is created for you before attending this course. When the account is created you will receive an e-mail invitation to book onto this course. Existing users are welcome to book if they wish to refresh their skills.
• You must complete this training in order to be able to access the LIVE system. The trainer will activate your account on attendance.
• Training sessions are conducted via Microsoft Teams, please reserve the time in your diary.
• You should assure yourself of the suitability of the learning environment from which you will access the online course. In order to focus on the learning content, you will need to access the session from a quiet location where you will not be disturbed. If it is not possible to do this within the office then you should select an alternative location/room that is more suitable, by agreement with your manager.
• In order for you to be able to attend you will need to ensure that you are using an ESCC device that has a microphone and video capabilities. 

To promote good recording practices in line with the Recording Policy for Foster Carers.

This is a mandatory course.

A briefing and networking session for Governors who are also parents.

Getting the job done through effective team management, new managers are often responsible for the first time for the management of other people. This new role therefore needs new skills and knowledge. This course is designed to give this basic understanding and some of the required skills so that new managers can thrive from the start.

New ESCC managers should also attend the Induction for ESCC Managers course and complete eLearning sessions below

An Introduction to Managing a Grievance and Attendance Management

There will be some pre-course work to:

• acquire manager commitment
• help delegates to prepare for the course
• help delegates to explore areas for development
• give structure to some exercises
• start the development process

"I found the course really informative and inclusive. All other attendees were really friendly and we all got on really well as a group. The facilitator was extremely knowledgeable and made the course fun and interesting. I would definitely recommend this course, it is the best one I have attend in a long time."

This session will be remotely delivered via MS Teams. Please check the joining instructions under Additional Information.

Time pressures impact our work and personal lives as we aim to achieve higher levels of performance with less resource (time) to achieve it. The ability to manage time is an essential skill for effective people. Time management is not about cramming more work into your day, it is about doing better work, with less stress and knowing you have achieved what you set out to do. We will address how to manage your time when working from time.

Overcoming overwhelm – a personal plan

What is overwhelm and what causes it?

Being overwhelmed occurs when there is too much of something going on or we don’t have enough time to complete everything– we feel like we’re drowning or being buried.

This can happen for a number of reasons, but a feeling of too many things to do, too much work, too much work pressure and too many deadlines can be a major contributor.

Feeling overwhelmed has repercussions on the whole of our life. It can make us feel tired, interfere with our sleep and make it difficult for us to think rationally. These negative emotions can make it more difficult for your body to fight off infections and can have a physical effect with fatigue, neck and upper-back pain, for example. Add all this together and it can affect every area of life, impacting our social lives and relationships on top of the work challenges.

All these feelings distract us from being effective and efficient and that, in turn, leads to lowered ‘performance’ and sets up a vicious cycle dragging us further down. This can lead to procrastination (making things worse!) and creative avoidance – doing things that don’t really matter to distract ourselves or things that give us pleasure, putting off the real work further.

This five hour course offers a practical and experiential opportunity to understand, appreciate and acknowledge that different situations trigger people in different ways. What one person will find ‘easy’ another may find ‘challenging’ and adding to levels of stress.

Once we have an understanding of our personal ‘triggers’ we are then in a better position to find the solutions to manage our stress, our workloads, and find effective ways that enable us to feel more ‘in control’.