Around one in four children will have experienced developmental trauma, affecting their health, well-being, behaviour and ability to learn. This half day course will support schools and frontline practitioners to understand the different types of trauma, its impact and how to develop child centred and empathic responses.

Target Group Headteachers, deputy headteachers, designated safeguarding leads and deputies, pastoral staff and all frontline professionals working with children and families.  

Course Content

Course content will include:  

• Understanding the different types of trauma, including complex developmental trauma and adverse childhood experiences
• Explore how trauma can impact on children and adolescents and how it may present in the classroom environment
• Consider practical strategies that will support practitioners to respond to trauma-related behaviours using child-centred and empathic approaches.
• Learn from the latest research and consider how this can support you to develop a trauma-informed culture, policy and practice to improve outcomes for children

Trainer Information

Kerry's passion for making a difference has been at the heart of her career. Working with some of the most vulnerable children, Kerry formed part of a multi-agency team for looked after children and teenage parents before becoming a service manager within an inner-city local authority. Kerry was the Education representative at the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) for the quality assurance of recommendations of serious case reviews and at the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) for high levels of domestic abuse.

A trained trainer with the NSPCC, Safer Recruitment Consortium and CEOP. Kerry is an experienced safeguarding trainer and continues to provide training, safeguarding supervision and consultancy services to schools and organisations across the North West.  

Kerry is also a school governor, safeguarding lead for a local sports organisation and a volunteer counsellor with Childline.

Additional Information

The virtual live training will be hosted by Kerry Dawson, Specialist Safeguarding Trainer and Consultant. Whilst it's not quite the same as face to face training, the courses are just as interactive, with plenty of opportunities for delegates to share good practice and ask any questions.