#KeepThePromise online practice sharing session for Pupil Support Staff

Pupil-led approaches to empower care-experienced children and young people

Join our online practice-sharing sessions to listen, share and network with other Pupil Support Staff focusing on care-experienced children and young people. We’re covering a range of topics that Pupil Support Staff and care-experienced children and young people themselves have told us are important. You’ll hear examples of good practice in the area you’ve chosen to come along to and have the opportunity to discuss in a small group. Sessions take place either on in-service days or evenings straight after school.

This session takes place on an in-service day for Falkirk, North Ayrshire, Orkney and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Councils.

This session will include a short presentation by a Pupil Support worker and/or other practitioners who focuses on supporting care-experienced children and young people in schools. The majority of this session will consist of discussion between delegates. The discussion will be facilitated by members of the Policy, Projects and Participation Team at Children in Scotland.

The event is open to anyone working in a role with a specific Pupil Support remit nationally. This could include roles such as: support for learning worker, pupil support assistant, classroom assistant, ASN assistant, home-school link worker, behaviour support staff and others. The event is also open to teaching staff who line-manage pupil support workers.

Children in Scotland is the largest national membership organisation for the children’s sector in the country. To access discounted trainings and many other membership benefits including exclusive content and resources, and discounted commissioned training, please visit here.

Please note that all local authority staff working from both headquarter and regional offices including senior management are included in membership and can register as members for discounted training with Children in Scotland. Membership does not extend to schools and nurseries within individual local authorities. If you are interested in your school or nursery becoming a member, please visit here.

This training will be delivered using Zoom. You can attend from anywhere using a compatible computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone connected to the internet.

Please note, some organisations have additional security settings that may prevent you from accessing Zoom on a work device.

Please check that your organisation permits access to Zoom. If they don’t provide access, we encourage you to use a personal device with Google Chrome instead. Otherwise, please speak to your IT team to gain access or ask them to change the security settings on your work device to access Zoom.

Zoom enables Close Captioning and Live Transcription. Once you have joined the Zoom, you can access this by:

1. Click the “CC Live Transcript” button
2. Click one of the following:

• Show Subtitles – Displays captioning on the bottom of the video. You can also select Hide Subtitle once subtitles are selected to hide them.
• View Full Transcript – Opens a panel/pop-up and displays captions in real-time with both the speaker’s name and time stamp.

The Children in Scotland Learning & Events team are committed to doing all we can to ensure our learning opportunities are accessible to everyone. If you require any adjustments to assist your learning, whether they be in relation to course materials or delivery format, please do contact us at [email protected] to discuss.

As a charity, Children in Scotland must cover the running costs of delivering events. We are therefore not in a position to offer refunds except under extenuating circumstances, in which case an administration fee would be applied.

Recording and/or distributing the training in any form is prohibited. This training may be recorded for internal review and use.

Please note that your personal details may be shared with the trainer for training purposes. These details will be deleted once the training has taken place.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email [email protected].

Event Venue

Online