MARAC Awareness Raising Session – 21 March 2024

Scottish Borders MARAC are holding a series of awareness sessions to enable a wider range of professionals to understand the process, be able to make referrals and work effectively with their MARAC representatives.

The sessions are aimed at any professional in Borders who works directly with adults/families and may have a role to play in identifying domestic abuse and utilising the MARAC process. They are not designed to support staff to take up the role of MARAC representative for their agency.

Session 1: Thursday 21 March, 9.30-11.00am, MSTeams (link below)

This short session is the first of two and will provide an overview of the MARAC process and the benefits of this multi-agency approach to risk management of high risk cases of domestic abuse. The aim is to:

  • provide context and function of the MARAC process
  • update on the Scottish Borders MARAC
  • explain the process from referral to feedback
  • describe your role in the MARAC process
  • provide support for making MARAC referrals.

Click here to join the meeting

We would be grateful if you could circulate this invite to your staff teams/networks and partnerships to enable a wide range of staff the opportunity to attend.

The second session is being planned for Autumn 2024 – details to follow in due course.

Any questions about the sessions, please contact the MARAC Coordinator on marac@scotborders.gov.uk

child protection

Working with the Parent Council

Detailed below is our upcoming  ‘Working with the Parent Council’ session.

Please share with your Head Teachers and SMT’s, that may find it useful.

As always booking is essential.

Working with the Parent Council

21 March 2024, 4.30-6pm

Places are free, booking is essential.

Bookings

 Learn about the positive and effective ways a Parent Council can help engage with families and the community to support learning.

For further information visit Connect or email membership@connect.scot

Duty of Candour

An Introduction to Duty of Candour

This module is aimed at employees who care for others in their job and will enable you to learn the key features of the Duty of Candour together with related terminology and good practice.

Please ensure that all Headteachers of ELC settings, Senior Early Years Officers and Early Years Officers complete this training by 31 March 2024.

Play on Pedals Training

Thanks to ongoing support from Cycling Scotland, we will be offering another free Play on Pedals training courses on Thursday 21st March at Duns PS, with an opportunity to then either be loaned a fleet of PoP bikes, or to set up a loan share agreement with another nearby early years setting for a fleet of PoP bikes. https://www.cycling.scot/what-we-do/training/play-on-pedals

Please can you let – Gordon.Smith@scotborders.gov.uk – know the name and email address of any interested practitioners you have. Places will initially be issued to those settings who do not currently have trained PoP practitioners, then opened up to settings who already have PoP capability.

 

SHINE Newsletter January 2024

Please find below the January 2024 edition of the SHINE newsletter. Please click on the link to read the newsletter:

https://createsend.com/t/d-89D5FCBA5D723A582540EF23F30FEDED

which includes:

  • Register for SHINE Webinar 11. Tues 19th Mar 2024 16.00 -17.00pm : “What Works in Responding to School Non-attendance: Examples from 2 Scottish local authorities”
  • Save the date!Thurs 2nd May 2024 SHINE National Network Conference 2024
  • New video resources on vaping and unhealthy food marketing co-produced with young people: ” Make Good Choices”
  • New resource for members now available : Sharing SHINE MH data with young people
  • Invitation to participate in SHINE affiliated research projects
    • Crowdsourcing for Adolescent Health (new)
    • AMBIENT-Teens sleep study
    • Clock off! – reducing night-time use of interactive electronic devices
    • National evaluation of the Equally Safe at School programme
  • Other events and research opportunities for school communities:
    • SOCITS: Socially Situated Systems approach to adolescent mental health
    • Purrble: an intervention for LGBTQi+ young people over 16 yrs experiencing emotional distress
    • Key stakeholders’ perceptions & attitudes of resistance training in Scottish secondary schools

The SHINE Team

Learning for Sustainability Scotland PL Events

I’m delighted to share details of several upcoming free-of-charge events and opportunities that may be of interest to you and your networks, and would be very grateful for your help in spreading the word to contacts you feel may be interested.

More details on all events and the links for signing up can be found here: Spring 2024: Upcoming opportunities and events from Learning for Sustainability Scotland (mailchi.mp)

  • ‘Connect’ – our monthly sessions for educators with the General Teaching Council of Scotland (29 February, 21 March, 25 April)
  • ‘Effective collaboration for Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Movement for Change’ – a pan-sectoral discussion opportunity (05 March)
  • ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’; our highly-successful online learning opportunity, which has, to date, attracted over 17,000 learners from nearly 160 countries. Developed in partnership with British Council and University of Edinburgh (starts 11 March)
  • ‘Responding to Scotland’s Good Food Nation consultation’ – in collaboration with Nourish Scotland (20 March)
  • ‘Monitoring Education for Sustainable Development in Colleges’ – in collaboration with EAUC Scotland (21 March)

Evolve Excursions System – Training for Staff, EVC’s, and HT’s

Evolve Excursions System – Training for Staff, EVC’s, and HT’s

There is a new set of dates on Business World for training on the Evolve Excursion planning system. The three dates are set up separately for Staff users (those who will be planning excursions), Educational Visit Coordinators (those who have responsibility in a school for liaising with staff team around excursions), and HT’s (who have responsibility for approving all excursions). Please go to Business World; Your Employment; Course Catalogue; then search for Evolve and the three courses should then appear. Select relevant course, then (I don’t know why) you need to click the “Search” button twice to get the course details for booking.

Tuesday 5th March, 4pm-5pm, Staff training course

Wednesday 6th March, 4pm-5pm, EVC training course

Thursday 7th March, 4pm-5pm, HT training course

As a reminder, Evolve is the only excursion planning system that SBC schools should be using, and all out of school visits must be captured on it – if the visit is not on Evolve, then the school are operating outside of SBC Excursions Policy.

Any questions please get in touch.

Gordon Smith, Outdoor Education Officer Gordon.Smith@scotborders.gov.uk