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New Specialist Online Courses

A Positive Approach to Safe Touch in the Early Years

Through dialogue, reflection, active and scenario-based learning practitioners will be encouraged to reflect upon their own practice. They will develop the knowledge and skills to contribute to a collaborative culture of safe touch through shared policy and practice. The course will be delivered live time online through Zoom.

This 3-hour online course supports leaders, safeguarding leads and practitioners in the early years to:

• Develop environments that encourage safe touch.

• Work confidently and safely with young children.

• Give young children a voice in their own safety.

• Build positive relationships that are essential for children to thrive.

• Develop a safe touch policy that incorporates best international practice and is contextually appropriate.

• Respond to inappropriate or unwanted touch.

What will participants explore?

• The importance of attachment in the development of young children

• The cultural context of safe touch

• Different types of appropriate and inappropriate touch

• The categories of touch

• How to use age-appropriate touch

• Developing the voices of children and adults

• Environments that encourage safe touch

• Responding to inappropriate touch

• Developing a collective responsibility to safe touch through policies and procedures

Who should attend?

Early Years Leaders, Teachers, Assistants, and those with specific safeguarding responsibility.

Who will lead the session?

Kate Beith is an ICPA associate and experienced trainer who together with Tim Gerrish regularly co delivers advanced safeguarding training and supports international schools in safeguarding development. Kate is a recognised and experienced early years expert in the international field of safeguarding.

Course cost: £195

Digital Safeguarding Training

Whilst there are countless positives to digital lives, it can also be dangerous without the proper safety measures in place. Many of the sites and services that children and young people are using are designed for adults and without safeguarding in mind. It is important that children know how to stay safe online, know what is appropriate and who they can turn to if there is a problem.

This course is aimed at staff in international schools and designed to supplement generic safeguarding knowledge by providing awareness of the risks that children and young people face online and practical suggestions for protecting learners. The course includes up-to-date insights from relevant international research and recognises the variety and complexity of the issues experienced by children and young people in different international jurisdictions.

For those joining this online three – hour real time interactive course, delegates will receive up to date information in understanding the online risks to children. Places will be limited so please register soon. The course will be delivered via Zoom by our associates from Praesidio who have particular expertise in digital safeguarding.

What will the training cover?

• Introduce the complexity of being a digital citizen in an international context

• Explore content risks, including idealised lives and bodies, self-harm, sexual and violent content, and disinformation

• Explore contact risks, including cyberbullying and grooming and exploitation

• Explore conduct risks, including sexting/sending nudes and digital footprints

• Explore contract risks, including T&Cs, data, harmful design norms and endless scrolling

• Offer practical tips and recommendations for keeping learners safe

• Provide suggestions of additional resources and useful websites

Who should attend?

Anyone with specific Safeguarding and Child Protection responsibilities. Teachers and Assistants, E Safety Leads, IT staff, Counsellors and Pastoral Leads, Senior Management and Board members.

Course cost: £195

ONLINE

16th September 2024

Safe Touch Training

07:00–10:00 hrs (BST)

14:00–17:00 hrs (SGT)

ONLINE

Date To Be Confirmed

Digital Safeguarding Training

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