Shape up & keep fit
Learning together
It’s critical to ensure staff are appropriately trained and skilled and supported
– and this requires knowing what skills and knowledge you need from your workforce.
The individual relationships between professional and service users can and do make
the difference; this is an area of skills development that is often overlooked.
Particularly prevalent within the Safeguarding theme, where relationship-based practice
emerged as a key point in the knowledge. Training and professional support were
identified as an enabler to true inclusion within the Disability theme, and a critical
element of high quality parental support.
C4EO Research Reviews relevant to this area include:
Disability
A well-organised key
worker service is effective in early years disability provision.
Vulnerable (Looked After) Children
School staff need to understand looked after children’s issues and make best use of designated teachers and virtual schools heads.
Safeguarding
Checking processes do not compensate
for good professional judgement, effective use of research evidence and high quality
supervision.
Schools and communities
Cross-phase training can help staff manage transition issues for children and young people.
Families, Parent and Carers
Schools staff and youth
workers need to be skilled up in dealing with domestic violence.
