Nursery World - My Best course

Training that 'shows' rather than 'tells' tends to have more
impact, and one safeguarding course using real-life scenarios played by
actors helped Ann Hall and her team understand what good practice feels
like.

According to its creators, the Safeguarding course is like 'watching a serious case review unfold before it happens'. Delivered in ten soap opera-style episodes, the training shows fictional characters reacting as two interweaving stories - neglect and physical abuse - start to unfold. Practitioners are confronted with the emotional impact of the situation, such as whether they believe or sympathise with the parent or not.

Author of the programme Sue Overton says, 'We were approached by a local authority to do a practical safeguarding programme because it had spent a lot of money in training its early years practitioners and chldminders but it didn't seem to be as effective as it hoped and it wasn't getting the referrals through to social care.'

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