Training content:

With an emphasis on whole family engagement, the training will provide tools and strategies to support practitioners in recognising and responding effectively to families who are separated or at risk of separation. Focussing on children's experiences of separation, the training aims to:

• reduce the emotional and psychological impact of separation on children;

• increase the number of children benefiting from effective post separation parenting relationships;

• increase the number of effective and co-operative arrangements for the care of children after separation;

• strengthen and maintain relationships between children and both of their parents after separation;

• increase the take up of wider relationship support.

Training modules:

1. Understanding family separation: exploring the myths and stereotypes that surround family separation;

2. Children's experiences of separation: understanding children's experiences and ways to reduce the emotional and psychological impact on them;

3. Engaging with parents: strategies for engaging with parents, respectfully, around family separation issues;

4. Meeting the different needs of mums and dads: understanding and responding to the different experiences and different needs of mums and dads;

5. Promoting collaborative post separation parenting arrangements: recognising the blocks and barriers to collaborative parenting and offering tools and strategies to overcome them;

6. Sign posting parents to wider relationship support: promoting the range of services that can help parents as they separate.

The training has been designed by the Centre for Separated Families, an award winning national charity that has been supporting separated families since 1973. It is funded under the Department for Education’s Improving Outcomes for Children, Young People and Families programme and is delivered in partnership with the leading children's charities 4Children and National Day Nurseries Association.

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Links:

Department for Education

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National Day Nurseries Association

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