Protective Behaviours NEWSLETTER
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Edition 5 Summer 2012 A safety awareness programme to promote safety and well-being for children, young people and families Welcome
Protective Behaviours network meetings
Our aim is to share information, practice and ideas about Protective Behaviours. If you have any examples of how you have been using Protective Behaviours please do email us. This newsletter is produced termly.
The network meetings are a perfect opportunity to get together and share ideas and practice around Protective Behaviours. Our next meeting is on Thursday 18 October:
Protective Behaviours training for health visitors and social work teams
Venue: Valley Social Centre Whitehawk Way Brighton BN2 5HE
The bulk of the trainings for HVs and SW teams have taken place with really good feedback particularly regarding the new Feeling Good Feeling Safe Workbook for one to one work. Hopefully participants now feel equipped to put PBs into practice and we’ll be contacting them over the summer to evaluate effectiveness of the training. Don’t Forget! There are still free PB trainings for anyone working with children & young people in Brighton & Hove. See our website for more details.
Protective Behaviours groups for parents ‘Feeing Good Feeling Safe’ The groups at Tarner, Roundabout and Moulsecoomb Children Centres continue once a term, with really positive feedback. Ofsted inspectors’ recent visits to Tarner and Moulsecoomb were able to talk to participants of a group and also sit in on a group. They and the neighbourhood service managers were very impressed and hopefully this contributed to both children centres’ outstanding ratings! We also have an amazingly inspiring video of 3 mothers talking about what they got out of doing the group, which we are currently editing to use for training, prospective parent attendees and to put on our website.
Time: 10.00 – 1.00 with lunch provided
To book a place, please go to the following link: http://networkmeeting-october.eventbrite.co.uk Sophie Shannon, SEAL and PHSE coordinator from Cedar Centre, will be explaining how PBs is used at the centre with children who have behavioural and learning difficulties. The meeting in June was packed with ideas and info! Charlotte Lench explained how she’d been using PBs in a group with adults from Scope and how she is hoping to develop this work, including doing a dissertation for her social work qualification. Esther Roe, early years visitor from Moulsecoomb talked about her one-to-one PB work with families. Using the new workbook has been helpful but she said that doing the programme in family homes is very different to group work in that it is harder to keep focused and boundaries can be blurred more easily. She has used an interpreter with a Tamil family which added some difficulties around meanings and translations of words such as ‘safe.’ We plan to contact Sussex Interpreting service about PB training for their service.