1. Parent/Carer Safeguarding Evening Wednesday 26th June 2019

2. The diagram below shows how the different aspects of safeguarding fit together

3. Safeguarding - Recent Developments
Revised safeguarding policies
The introduction of a Lockdown Policy
The introduction of the role of WMAT Executive Leader for Safeguarding
The introduction of Child Protection Online Management System (CPOMS)
Mental Health Support
- Off The Record
- Mental Health Guide (Parents)
The introduction of National Online Safety training (Parents)
Impact
Positive student feedback during School Self Evaluation
Excellent feedback from Ofsted (2019) and B&NES Audit (2019)

4. The Parent’s Guide to Understanding their Adolescent!
Solution Revolution
The Parent’s Guide to Understanding their Adolescent!
With
Tara Gretton

5. Best Hopes Best Hopes The Adolescent Brain Video
Solution Focused Conversations
Working on what work – Sharing resources and building on success
0 being things at their worst and 10 being your Best Hopes

6. Best Hopes
Please can you share your name and your Best Hopes for the session
Please can you also scale your Best Hopes
0 being things at their worst and 10 being your Best Hopes

7. What is Solution Focussed Brief Therapy?
Solution Focused Brief Practice is about building on existing strengths, identifying times when the problem isn’t happening and not being focused on the problem
The Solution Focused Approach is all about change, and change that enables clients to find their own solutions in a short time. It’s all about finding out what the client would prefer their future to look like, and what their strengths and skills are in order for them to be able to achieve their preferred
future and building on what they are already doing well. The Solution Focused approach is a very collaborative and respectful approach; its basic principle is that the client is the expert of themselves and that the practitioner can better help a client by asking subtle questions about what has worked in the past; what helps now and what their preferred future (Best Hopes) might look like, rather than focusing on talking about the problem.
There is a framework to the Solution Focused Approach whereby the practitioner asks the client what their Best Hopes are for the session/training (whatever the setting), the practitioner also asks questions to elicit strengths and exceptions (times when the problem isn’t happening). This enables the client to see that the problem isn’t happening all of the time. This can be brought about by a general conversation of what the clients likes/does well.
Tara to give examples of this work.

8. The Adolescent Brain
Not only are adolescents changing physiologically, but their brains are really changing and this explains a lot.

9. The Primitive Brain Rider:
Pragmatic, logical, selfish, moral, ethical and intellectual
Spends most of its time in the past or the future
Complex motivations
Horse:
Primitive, emotional with simple emotions, threat minded, powerful, lives in the here and now
Primitive drives
(Haidt , 2012)

10. Solution Focused Conversations
‘Solution focused practice aims to restore children’s problem-solving potential and mobilize their inner resources or resourcefulness.’
(Milner and Bateman, 2011:11) “

11. How it works Establish positive aims based on what the person wants
Find out what goes well/how they cope – Build on existing strengths
Exceptions to the problem – A time when they have done something well
Scaling
Compliments – Persevere! Noticing the smallest of changes

12. Working on Works Exercise: -
Split into groups and share successes in your parenting and positives about your interactions with your child/children
Only focusing on positives and no talking about any problems

13. Solution Revolution
Have you got any questions?

14. Who do you go to if you have a concern about a student’s safety?