The Positive Difference Trauma-Informed Relationships Can Make - Loneliness Awareness Week

When a child or young person presents with challenging behaviour, the first thing we can change is ourselves and how we respond, which can make all the difference to the outcome. This is especially true if they are at risk of being excluded. Their behaviour is so often a communication about their relational and learning needs, and some of the strongest needs in that mix will be for adults capable of genuinely connecting with them, seeing and valuing them beneath the behaviour, and working to meet them in the most helpful way we can. And it is 'we' - we are all accountable for how we respond and for the environment in which children and young people who have experienced trauma and loss struggle to find a footing. Our webinar speakers, both highly experienced lead practitioners from Virtual schools (Hampshire and Cumberland), have given this issue serious thought, and used the AFIT needs analysis software to support themselves and their teams to develop their capacity to be the 'Adults who ...' with heartening outcomes for the children and young people they work with.

Louise Michelle Bombèr and members of her TouchBase team present the practice and ideas behind their new book, Restoring Education: Educators paving the way to radical change through relationship

 Sharing exciting new research on how Reach2Teach AFIT helps staff support children who struggle in school

Supporting Kinship Carers through the process of enabling their child to feel safe, settle and thrive in their new home, as well as at school

Introducing the power of storytelling to support children to express themselves. Support looked after children reflect on issues that really matter to them

Preview part of an 'unapologetically hard-hitting animation' supporting young people vulnerable to becoming involved with gangs and crime

Life in school post Covid - absenteeism and mental health difficulties - share effective, supportive practice and innovation

To celebrate BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Meet Dr Elaine Arnold, whose extraordinary & unique career in education, social work, counselling, attachment, migration & culture, family separation & intergenerational trauma spans, amazingly, some seven decades.

Presenting the Reach4CARE App - for foster carers, adoptive parents, special guardians and input from those living & working with children looked after and adopted