Adverse Childhood Experiences: Taking a Trauma-informed Approach to Improving Outcomes

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Anna Bateman Mental health expert and former DfE adviser
Webinar 53min

This webinar will equip mental health practitioners, senior mental health leads, DSLs, learning mentors and teachers with the knowledge and skills to support and improve outcomes for pupils who have experienced ACEs.

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Webinar Duration: 53 minutes (approx.)

This ACEs training webinar will equip mental health practitioners, senior mental health leads, DSLs, learning mentors and teachers with the knowledge and skills to support and improve outcomes for pupils who have experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

The DfE's Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) statutory guidance underlines the importance of staff understanding how adverse childhood experiences can impact pupils' mental health, behaviour and education.

Research indicates that ACEs can lead to poorer mental and physical health outcomes which are carried over into adulthood. Effective support from school staff can, however, steer pupils towards better outcomes, and at the same time address social inequality and the education gap.

In this ACEs webinar, Anna Bateman, subject matter expert on mental health and wellbeing and advisor to the DfE, provides an understanding of ACEs. She identifies types of ACE, explains their potential and cumulative impact on pupils' lives and offers a practical, research-led approach to improving outcomes.

Please see the links to the supporting documents below:

Keeping Children Safe in Education, DfE Guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2

£8m programme to boost pupil and teacher wellbeing, DfE Press Release, 2020

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/8m-programme-to-boost-pupil-and-teacher-wellbeing

Trauma, challenging behaviour and restrictive interventions in schools, Centre for Mental Health, Briefing 54

https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-01/Briefing_54_traumainformed%20schools_0.pdf

Mental health and behaviour in schools, DfE

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/755135/Mental_health_and_behaviour_in_schools__.pdf

Adverse Childhood Experiences and their impact on health-harming behaviours in the Welsh adult population, Public Health Wales

http://aceawarescotland.com

Childhood Trauma and the Brain, UK Trauma Council

https://uktraumacouncil.org/resources/childhood-trauma-and-the-brain

UK Trauma Council, Anna Freud Centre

https://www.annafreud.org/research/collaborations-and-partnerships/uk-trauma-council/

Childhood trauma by paediatrician Nadine Burke Harris, TED Video Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime/

Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Early Trauma Online Learning, Free funded by Home Office Early Intervention Fund

https://www.acesonlinelearning.com/