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Protective Behaviours ESCC Conference

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• An overall understanding of the Protective Behaviours programme as a framework for staff and clients to stay safe

• An experience of some of the content within the training

• Information about the 2 day training in ESCC

Aims for this Session

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• Confidentiality

• Challenge ideas rather than the person

• Value the contribution of others

• Take turns and participate

• Keep yourself safe

Group Agreement

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Is a living skills and personal safety programme. It is about the right to feel safe and the right to talk about times when we feel unsafe.

It is a process that can be used to help people to feel and keep safe in different situations by developing a range of safety tools and skills

Protective Behaviours

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We All have the right to feel safe all of the

time

The two themes

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We can talk with someone about

anything even if it’s awful or small

History and Overview

Safety & Wellbeing

Feeling Safe/Unsafe

Early Warning Signs

Having Adventures Problem-solving

Protective Action

Support Networks

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“We can’t expect children and young people to deal with a situation of considerable stress or risk unless we have laid a foundation of core safety skills” (Dr Stephen Briers)

The core skills are:-

1.Emotional Literacy

2.Assertiveness

3.Problem-Solving

4.Social Capital

Core Skills for improving outcomes for children & young people

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• Information & skills based vs behavioural techniques• Transferable skills • Rights and empowerment• For sexual abuse prevention, specific information rather than abstract concepts• Are reinforced by an active network of informed, supportive adults

Dr Stephen Briers (2008) ;Child Abuse Review (1994,1997) NSVRC, (2011)

Safety & Abuse Prevention Programmes: key lessons

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1. RESILIENCE: emphasis on awareness and management of feelings, building self-esteem and well-being, problem-solving skills and social connections

2. RIGHTS & Responsibilities: programme explores our own and societal values, awareness of our rights and assertive responses;

3. RISK & Safety: developing awareness of safety, empowering people to make safer choices, deal with difficult situations and recognise and manage risk; includes specific abuse prevention tools

Core elements of the PB Process

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• Understand the theory and framework of Protective Behaviours by exploring its two key themes

• Develop increased safety awareness skills for staff and clients and identify how risk taking fits within this model

• Demonstrate improved knowledge and skills in working with children and families to help them develop their safety awareness and protection skills

• Build a toolbox of strategies and resources for use with children, young people and families

Protective Behaviours 2 day training

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Protective Behaviours

Problem-solving: Feelings-Thinking-Behaviour

Theme 1: We all have the right to feel safe all the time

Theme 2: We can talk with someone about anything, even if it feels awful or small

The context to safety: Unwritten Rules

7 PB Strategies

Language of SafetyPersistence

Risking on Purpose

One Step RemovedProtective Interruption

Network Review

Theme Reinforcement

o Protective Behaviours training delivered as part of the Transformation Programme to 175 health visitors, early years visitors and children’s social work staff

o 1:1 resources developed for social work teams

o Feeling Good, Feeling Safe group work programme for parents rolled out to Children’s Centres across the city

o Feeling Good Feeling Safe is now being rolled out in B&H schools as part of PHSE

o General PB training Programme available to all CYP and families workforce

The Brighton & Hove experience

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49 parents took part in FGFS groups over the period of 1 year

• 73% of participants showed an improvement in feeling that they had skills to keep themselves and their children safe

• 67% showed a significant improvement in their ability to cope with difficult situations and emotions and talk about feelings

• 59% found it easier to recognise when they felt unsafe and showed improvements in relationships within their family

Feeling Good Feeling SafeGroups

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“ being able to talk freely with my son and controlling my anger, really makes me feel happy and safe”

“ I enjoyed the course, it has given me confidence and understanding about being safe and keeping my children safe”

Feedback from Children’s Centre staff indicates that the FGFS course was a useful stepping stone for parents to access other more formal parenting courses and in some cases moved parents out of child protection procedures

Feeling Good Feeling SafeGroups

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1. Safeguarding Agenda

2. Children’s Rights Agenda – UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

3. Healthy Child Programme DOH

4. Emotional Literacy Programmes – SEAL, PHSE Early Years Foundation Stage

P. B. ’s Links to…..

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What comes to mind when you think about SAFETY?

SAFETY

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Theme 1 – Developing Safety Awareness

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“We All Have the Right to Feel Safe all of the Time”

Theme 1 – Developing Safety Awareness

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Write about or draw a place that is special and safe for you

It can be real or imaginary

If you can’t think of one for yourself - imagine one for someone else

What is it about this place that makes you feel so safe are there any particular colours,sounds, smells, textures or even tastes?

Safety Continuum

Safety = Choice + Control + Time Limit

Early Warning Signs

or Uh oh Feelings

Why might someone ignore their early Warning Signs?

Feelings - The F Word

“If we train children to be aware of their emotions then they are much more likely to be able to deal with situations in a positive way.

Empathy is a crucial source of information about the world and is consistently linked to better social adjustment outcomes for children”

Stephen Briers Clinical Psychologist

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Feelings - The F Word

EXERCISE: In pairs, using the Blob feelings picture again.

Which Blob do you feel like now?

Which blob will enjoy life most?

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Choosing Safely

Feelings are Feelings

Behaviour is a choice

We can use our thinking to influence both

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“There is Nothing so Awful that we can’t talk with Someone about it”

Theme 2 Developing Support Networks

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Key elements in being able to confide in someone: Having space and time to build relationship with an adult

Having confidence in themselves and feeling safe to speak

Trust in the adult

Retaining some control of the situation

(Action for Children 2014)

Making it safer to talk

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Feeling Good Feeling Safe Programme Outcomes

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Healthy family relationships,

• Improved emotional literacy,

• Improved safety awareness & ability to keep safe. • Supportive networks, • Increased ability in assertiveness and problem solving

Pre course questionnaire to establish where client is before the start of the course.

Post course questionnaire to record show any changes that have occurred.

3/7/14

PB Trainings coming up in East Sussex

27

3/29 January 2015

12/19 March 2015

Future dates in 2015/16 to be confirmed

SISTraining@eastsussex.gov.uk