Consultancy, Training & CPD Courses
Anti-Bullying
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Organising and maintaining a peer support scheme – peer mediators:
30 Jan 2012 & 21 Feb 2012
Organising and maintaining a buddies, befrienders or play pals scheme:
13 Mar 2012 & 15 Mar 2012
Drawing the Line |
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School staff who have recently attended training by the Anti-Bullying team have commented: |
Anti-Bullying Surgery Session
“It was really helpful to be able to address issues that I was not particularly clear about – I learnt so much.”
“I really valued the opportunity to discuss what we are doing already and possibilities for future enhancement.” |
Whole staff INSET day on Anti-Bullying and the equality context
“So useful to have time to consider in detail and depth these important policy documents, to review practices and implementation, and the school’s impact in carrying them out.”
“Thank you for an excellent day. You managed to break down the bigger issues and guide us through the process with clarity.” |
Staff INSET on sexualised bullying and homophobia
“Excellent. Very well planned and prepared. Great stuff on learning outcomes and application of procedures in practice.” |
Working in partnership to support all children and young people in Hertfordshire to achieve health and well being.
Hertfordshire has repeatedly received regional and national recognition for its high quality and varied anti-bullying support programme.
We recognise that anti-bullying work is a key part of a school’s safeguarding strategy and that hurtful behaviour, peer pressure and bullying limits children’s emotional readiness to learn and can significantly impact on progress and achievement. Hertfordshire offers a range of innovative support, training and consultancy to help your school to prevent and respond to bullying and to build a school culture where positive relationships lead to improved outcomes.
- Support services to build stakeholder confidence, resilience and engagement: including the HABI peer support training, the HABI Your Say young people’s survey programme and parent briefing sessions.
- Training in specific safeguarding programmes for schools, such as protective behaviours, targeted anti-victim workshops, fresh start initiatives for groups locked into damaging relationships, and restorative justice approaches.
- Specialist training for specific aspects of identity and prejudice focused bullying, for example: homophobic, transphobic, sexist, sexualised, gendered, disablist and racist bullying.
- Induction or consultancy for school anti-bullying leaders to assist development of effective school anti-bullying strategy, ensuring attention to required equality and diversity dimensions.
- A robust anti-bullying review process, which evaluates the effectiveness of current policy and practice through a site visit, document review and pupil voice. Available to individual schools or clusters. Individual and collective reports identify strengths and make recommendations for development.
- Training to address general or targeted anti-bullying issues, skill development, curriculum content and pupil support and recording/reporting processes.
- Consultancy and/or training to address how to deal with bullying in ways that will engage pupil support for school anti-bullying ethos, develop pupil resilience and enable increased pupil attention on achievement.
- Consultancy and/or training on delivering an anti-bullying curriculum
Interventions can be tailored to address the vulnerability of the most at risk pupils through curriculum interventions that have real impact on tolerance of diversity.
All training, guidance and support is in line with national policy and good practice, the current Ofsted inspection framework and The Equality Act 2010. Support is designed to directly impact on pupils’ ability to learn effectively, achieve their potential and flourish socially and emotionally. Wherever possible work will also aim to build staff capacity for early intervention, increase pupil engagement and reduce pupil vulnerability.
If your school is signed up to the Hertfordshire Healthy Schools Programme, please be aware that as part of your annual subscription entitlement, anti bullying could be the focus of your half day adviser support visit.
“The knowledge and values that children are taught in lessons are reinforced by staff and older pupils setting an excellent example to others. Schools that achieve this are successful in preventing bullying from arising in the first place.” DfE anti-bullying guidance 2011
To book training or find out more about any of the above please contact:
Karin Hutchinson
Anti-Bullying Adviser
Standards and School Effectiveness
Tel: 01438 844044
Email: karin.hutchinson@hertscc.gov.uk
School Based Support / CPD
Examples of what we offer to assist you in this key priority:
- Anti Bullying policy surgery
For guidance on your anti bullying policy, please send via email or call for an appointment to discuss. Please note, that evidence of engaging the thoughts and ideas of staff, pupils and parents will be expected.
- Support implementing the Girl Bullying whole school resource
The ‘Bad Girls’ resource has been developed within Hertfordshire and therefore we have considerable expertise and knowledge of implementing this whole school approach to girl bullying and inter friendship cruelty.
- Staff training on Homophobic Bullying
This session can be delivered as a twilight session using materials produced by Stonewall. Despite focusing on homophobic bullying, the session relates to bullying and prejudices in general.
- Co-ordination of National Anti Bullying Week Information
Check the National Anti Bullying Week section of this site frequently to see updates and information collated all in one place. To add your own ideas and feedback, please email.
- Peer Support Training for schools
See leaflet below. Hertfordshire Anti Bullying Initiative (HABI) has been delivering peer support training for schools across the county since 2005. Consultants train staff and pupils in peer mentoring, mediation or buddying. Read the impact assessment below. This training is free.
- Restorative approaches workshops for pupils / mediation training for adults in school
A one hour workshop for pupils on managing conflict in one to one situations and a training programme for adults in school in mediation. Teachers, TAs, MSAs and other support staff as well as parent or community volunteers can be trained for free through HABI.
- Training, events, resources, signposting, guidance, research
Co-ordinated through HABI.
To book training or find out more about any of the above please contact:
Karin Hutchinson
Anti-Bullying Adviser
Standards and School Effectiveness
Tel: 01438 844044
Email: karin.hutchinson@hertscc.gov.uk
Training/Consultancy Sessions
Herts Anti-Bullying
Accreditation - Optional Additional Support for Schools
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Introductory Accreditation Consultation |
An opportunity to have a personalised discussion about your current policy and practice as a kick start to your accreditation programme. The process will identify areas of strength and aspects that might need further development.
“This was really useful for myself and my chair of governors to help us understand the process and identify aspects that we still needed to develop. We are now more confident that when we apply for the accreditation we will be successful.” Headteacher
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1.5 hours
£193 (£219, £257) |
Delivery of Launch Consultation Presentations |
The presentations provided to schools can be delivered by an adviser to maximise the collection of consultation feedback from an identified audience.
“The feedback from this session gave us valuable insight into areas that needed development. We have now developed an action plan that is truly based on our stakeholder feedback. ”
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1.5 hours
£193 (£219, £257) |
Anti-bullying pupil review programme
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This programme evaluates whole school approaches to anti-bullying through a half day visit that reviews paperwork, interviews key staff and crucially gathers formal and informal feedback from young people. It evaluates to what extent the views of pupils are in line with the formal documentation within the school. A half day review is followed by development of a report of key finding with recommendations.
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£579 (£656, £772) |
HABI Peer Support Training |
Hertfordshire have been providing this high quality training to young people since 2005. The programme is tailored to the different needs of different phases and age groups: buddy/play pals for primary pupils, peer mediation for primary or secondary pupils and peer mentoring for secondary pupils. Schools can purchase pupil training only or a full capacity building programme.
“Peer Mediation has helped our students to become more patient and empathise with the feelings of others. Mediators have gained self-confidence and have been proud of the extra status that being a Peer Mediator brings. ‘Low level’ incidents occurring in the playground have reduced and it is now a more positive place. For ‘low level’ offenders, the model of listening to the other side of an argument and coming up with a solution has been a positive way forward.” Headteacher
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Pupil training delivery only
Primary: (up to 30 pupils) play pals, buddies or peer mediation
Secondary:
Peer mediation Half-day (up to 30)
Peer mentoring Whole-day (up to 30)
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Half day / £379 (£426, £496)
Half-day / £401 (£448, £518)
Whole-day / £751 (£845, £985) |
Full capacity building package including a planning consultation, a pupil training session and a staff twilight
Primary: play pals, buddies or peer mediation
Secondary: Peer mediation (up to 30)
Peer mentoring (up to 30) |
£730 (£823, £963)
Half-day / £730 (£823, £963)
Whole-day / £1101 (£1241, £1919) |
HABI Your Say – a pupil consultation programme |
Schools who register to participate in this programme will receive a detailed pupil survey on key concerns identified from bullying data and developments in the Autumn and Spring terms. The surveys are intended for pupils to be involved in collecting the data from their school-fellows. Collated school returns are developed into a report that identifies key issues to be shared with pupils and makes recommendations to schools. This also enables individual schools to compare their own results with the collective report.
“This programme is really excellent in enabling us to consult young people regularly on detailed issues that are of real concern to them.” Headteacher
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At present there is no charge
It is possible that there will in future be an annual charge of approximately:
£20 (£23; £27) |
To discuss your support needs, contact:
Karin Hutchinson
Anti-Bullying Adviser
Tel: 01438 843988
Email: karin.hutchinson@hertscc.gov.uk
Drawing the Line
A county-wide
initiative to
relegate
homophobia
and transphobia
to the past in
all Hertfordshire
schools
Hertfordshire County Council is a
Stonewall Education Champion.
Schools wishing to join the initiative will
receive:
- support documentation produced by Stonewall at
no charge
- additional ideas and recommendations on how to
bring about change
- Further training and support can also be accessed
from the Health and Wellbeing Team
- Twilight staff/governor training session – 1.5 hrs
(£144.75, £165.00, £193.50)
- Student “Drawing the line” leadership workshop –
1.5 hrs (£144.75, £165.00, £193.50)
- Peer supporters’ anti-homophobia skill
development workshop – 1.5 hrs
(£144.75, £165.00, £193.50)
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Team Contacts
Karin Hutchinson
Anti-Bullying Adviser
Tel: 01438 844044
Email: karin.hutchinson@hertscc.gov.uk
Deborah Sheppard
Healthy Schools Adviser, Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Tel: 01438 844044
Fax: 01438 844084
Mobile: 07785 594794
Email: deborah.sheppard@hertscc.gov.uk
Behaviour Support Team
Behaviour Support Teams provide specialist support to children, their families and schools in relation to emotional, social and behavioural difficulties.
East 1 Tel: 01462 705813
East 2 Tel: 01992 556831
West 1 Tel: 01442 453251
West 2 Tel: 01442 453904
Educational Psychologist
Educational Psychology (EP) provides a range of specialist services designed to support schools and parents in meeting the learning needs of all pupils, but particularly those who have or who may develop special needs.
East 1 Tel: 01462 704299
East 2 Tel: 01992 588515
West 1 Tel: 01442 453043
West 2 Tel: 01442 553 904
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