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Difficult Conversations – Talking to Parents/Carers
Area: Safeguarding and Welfare Audience: Practitioners
This course will support practitioners working with children and families to increase their
knowledge and skills in effective communication with parents around developmental and/or
safeguarding concerns.
Learning Objectives:

• To identify children and families who would
benefit from early intervention in the prevention
of unnecessary escalation of issues or needs.
• To develop basic skills and strategies for
approaching parents effectively in relation to
offering early support

• To understand the key themes of a Strength
Based Conversation

• To support parents in finding their own solutions
• To appreciate the importance and benefits of
ongoing strength-based communication
This course aims to encourage practitioners to find a new way of having difficult
conversations with parents and carers in a way which focuses on strengths and understands
people within the context of their family and community.
This approach involves listening, and genuinely understanding what matters to people, what
their life is like and where changes can be made. It is about enabling rather than using a
traditional ‘helping’ style and supporting families to make positive changes to their own lives,
so they are more resilient and less dependent on services.
It will support practitioners working with children and families to understand their
responsibility in implementing the Early Help Strategy and preventing the unnecessary
escalation of issues or problems.

Early Phonics – the Next Stage
Area: Learning and Development Audience: Practitioners
Success in all areas of education depends upon children developing a good standard of
literacy. In the Early Years it is essential that we build upon children’s prior attainment. How
do you know when children are ready to move on in the development of their literacy skills?
What are the next steps to take? How do you help parents to help their children?
This course looks at these questions and develops practitioners’ skills and knowledge in
literacy and early phonics
Learning Objectives:
• To enable practitioners to develop their understanding of the ‘next steps’ in early
literacy and phonics
• To enable settings to support parents in helping their children make progress as the
approach school transition
• To share reading and writing activities which can be used in groups and with individual
children
• To develop effective assessment to help with transition

www.quality4earlyyears.co.uk

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