September 2024 News

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Upcoming Professional Learning

Keeping Trauma in Mind : National Delivery A line drawing of a person holding their heart. This is a decorative image.

10 September 2024

The ‘Keeping Trauma in Mind’ programme of 4 twilight sessions will provide educators from all sectors with an opportunity to understand the impact of trauma and develop trauma responsive strategies to support children and young people affected by psychological trauma. 

Delegates will gain most benefit from attending all four sessions and will have access to presentations and opportunities to network with educators from across Scotland. 

 

One Good Adult : Information session 

11 September 2024

This session will provide an overview of the ‘One Good Adult’ resource created by the partners in the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Joint Delivery Board  for all people who work / volunteer with children and young people in Scotland across all sectors including education, Health, Social Work etc. 

 

Awareness Raising Session: Preventing and Responding to Gender Based Violence Framework The cover of Scotland's new 'Preventing and Responding to Gender based Violence@ A Whole School Framework'.

18 September 2024

This awareness raising event, delivered in partnership with Rape Crisis Scotland and Zero Tolerance will provide practitioners with an overview of the new Preventing and Responding to Gender Based Violence: A Whole School Framework. 

 

LGBT Inclusive Education with TIE 

24 September 2024 Time for Inclusive Education's Logo, it is a colourful, rainbow necktie alongside the letters, 'TIE'

LGBT inclusive education is for everyone. It is needed to foster a safe and supportive environment for all children, young people and adult learners, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender. 

This webinar will explore: 

  • the national approach to LGBT inclusive education and how we can deliver it in our settings
  • practical examples of what this can look like
  • the positive impact of LGBT inclusive education
  • the strong links to wider equalities work in Scotland

We’re excited to host alongside Time for Inclusive Education (TIE), Scotland’s LGBT Inclusive Education charity. TIE’s goal is for all young people to grow up in a society free from homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. TIE will share the practicalities and impact of their free national programme, ‘Delivering LGBT Inclusive Education’ which provides support for teaching and learning to create an LGBT inclusive curriculum. We will also share the evidence base for this approach and the positive feedback from parents and carers

 

This image reads 'Keeping your cool in school' and has an image of a thermometer Keeping Your Cool in School: Information Sessions 

2 October 2024

This session will provide an overview of the ‘Keeping Your Cool in School’ primary resource designed to support children in developing and maintaining positive relationships; becoming more confident in tackling challenging situations and enabling them to have a better understanding of their responsibilities in school and beyond. 

 

Black History Month webinar on Anti-Racist Education This image reads, '#BHM24'

7 October 2024

As part of CRER’s Black History Month 2024 programme, join us in October for a webinar on anti-racist education in Scotland. Find out why anti-racist education is important in education and explore examples of local and national developments in anti-racist education.

 

Updates and Resources

Prevent Duty Guidance is Now Statutory 

The recently updated Prevent Duty Guidance for Scotland is now statutory. It became statutory yesterday on the 19th of August. Please communicate this reminder to your networks where possible/appropriate so that they are aware.  

Safeguarding: Criminal Exploitation  

New safeguarding page added to suit of safeguarding pages aiming to support the knowledge skills and understanding of criminal exploitation of the education workforce 

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Children’s rights in Scotland

Guidance and links to new resources on embedding children’s human rights in educational settings, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024

 

 

Education Scotland CIRCLE professional learning materials (Primary)

 Education Scotland CIRCLE professional learning materials (Secondary) This image depicts a child looking through a piece of paper. Words read 'Inclusive learning and collaborative working, ideas in practice.'

Education Scotland has created additional professional learning materials for primary settings to support individual and group learning around how to promote effective inclusive practice using the CIRCLE framework for inclusion and to support development of knowledge and experience in using the CIRCLE framework tools. 

The resources can be used as a group, or individually to explore in greater depth. 

 

Keeping the Promise Award Programme | Resources | Education Scotland – Family Learning specific versions now available

Aligning family learning and The Promise – A guide for family learning professionals and GIRFEC strategic leads | Resources | Education Scotland 

This image is the logo of 'The Promise'. It depicts a colourful heart and the words 'the promise Scotland'.The purpose of this resource is to provide a foundational knowledge on the background and current delivery approaches of Family Learning in Scotland and how they align with #KeepingThePromise. It has been designed in collaboration with Education Scotland, The Promise Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway’s Children’s Services Partners locally. The resource will support both Family Learning Professionals and GIRFEC Strategic Leaders who have responsibility for the delivery and governance of both areas.