ParentCarer Safeguarding Evening Wednesday 26 th June 2019

Parent/Carer Safeguarding Evening Wednesday 26 th June 2019 Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

The diagram below shows how the different aspects of safeguarding fit together Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Safeguarding - Recent Developments • Revised safeguarding policies • The introduction of a Lockdown Policy • The introduction of the role of WMAT Executive Leader for Safeguarding • The introduction of Child Protection Online Management System (CPOMS) • Mental Health Support - Off The Record - Mental Health Guide (Parents) • The introduction of National Online Safety training (Parents) Impact • Positive student feedback during School Self Evaluation • Excellent feedback from Ofsted (2019) and B&NES Audit (2019) Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Solution Revolution The Parent’s Guide to Understanding their Adolescent! With Tara Gretton Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Best Hopes • The Adolescent Brain • Video • Solution Focused Conversations • Working on what work – Sharing resources and building on success Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Best Hopes • Please can you share your name and your Best Hopes for the session • Please can you also scale your Best Hopes Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

What is Solution Focussed Brief Therapy? • Solution Focused Brief Practice is about building on existing strengths, identifying times when the problem isn’t happening and not being focused on the problem Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

The Adolescent Brain Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

The Primitive Brain Rider: • Pragmatic, logical, selfish, moral, ethical and intellectual • Spends most of its time in the past or the future • Complex motivations Horse: • Primitive, emotional with simple emotions, threat minded, powerful, lives in the here and now • Primitive drives (Haidt , 2012) Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Solution Focused Conversations ‘Solution focused practice aims to restore children’s problem-solving potential and mobilize their inner resources or resourcefulness. ’ (Milner and Bateman, 2011: 11) Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

How it works • Establish positive aims based on what the person wants • Find out what goes well/how they cope – Build on existing strengths • Exceptions to the problem – A time when they have done something well • Scaling • Compliments – Persevere! Noticing the smallest of changes Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Working on Works Exercise: • Split into groups and share successes in your parenting and positives about your interactions with your child/children • Only focusing on positives and no talking about any problems Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Solution Revolution Have you got any questions? Developing confident, respectful and successful young people

Who do you go to if you have a concern about a student’s safety? Developing confident, respectful and successful young people