Wiltshire Virtual School Working with LAC and PLAC

Wiltshire Virtual School Working with LAC and PLAC VSH: Chris Whitfield VSOs: Jacqui Betts Dave Brown Mark Dagger Paula Page Jude Cooper Kellie Walker Karen Tremayne

Improving the educational outcomes for looked after and previously looked after children • • • PEPs Pupil premium plus Raising aspirations Advice and support Additional activities

A looked after child… • Is in care to the local authority • Could be subject to a care order, interim care order or be accommodated (section 20) • Could have previously been a child in need • Could live with foster carers, members of their family or in a residential placement • Will have a social worker

Previously Looked After… • may be the subject of an adoption order • special guardianship order • child arrangements order (formally residence order) Q: Why have previously looked after children been included in this work?

Working Successfully with Children with Attachment Difficulties

Making friends

John Bowlby 1907 - 1990

1950 s Harlow’s Wire Monkeys

Children in hospital – Robertson films

Why?

Which is more attractive?

Maslow

Developing Bowlby

Socialising – the widening circle Child First carers: mother/father/siblings Wider family and close friends Child-minders, nursery, school and beyond

When it goes wrong…

Different models of attachment • • • Secure Insecure – avoidant Insecure – ambivalent Insecure – anxious Disorganised Unattached

Insecure - Avoidant

Insecure -Ambivalent

Insecure - Anxious

Disorganised attachment

The Unattached Child

Fight, flight or freeze

Connection Before Correction

HELP!

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