EYFS - Positive Relationships

• Positive Behaviour Management 0-5 years: one-day course on behaviour management for all those in early years including childminders, playgroup or pre-school workers.

ADVANCED CHILDCARE

• Behaviour management

ASDAN

• Achieving Positive Behaviour through Choice: a workshop for all practitioners who are called upon to 'manage' learners at any level, exploring topics such as expectations, factors that influence behaviour, the nature of disruptive behaviour, early intervention strategies, proactive strategies to improve behaviour and target setting for specific teaching and learning situations.

KATE CAIRNS ASSOCIATES

• Relationships Build Brains - why adults are important to young children: investigating the role adults play in the brain development of babies and young children. This course enables early years practitioners to develop this understanding and to work more effectively with young children and with vulnerable parents.

CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND

• Kitbag for families: half-day course teaching a philosophy developed by health professionals and designers to deal with distressing events or turmoil within a family. The session is recommended for anyone involved with children and/or families trying to navigate changes, as the approach can be used to help children from the age of three.

CONCEPT TRAINING

• Positive ways of changing behaviour: focusing on the use of proactive approaches to support children and service users to make positive behavioural changes through an understanding of behaviour and its function, a recognition of early warning signs of negative behaviour and early intervention.

• Positive approaches to changing behaviour: course on supporting children to change their behaviour rather than the carer just managing or coping.

CONTACT A FAMILY

• Supporting families with disabled children: this workshop is for practitioners wanting to provide information and support to families with disabled children. Topics covered over two and a half hours include: what we mean by the word ‘disabled’, a disabled child’s impact on family life, the information needs of families with disabled children and common barriers to families accessing support. Additional modules can be added, including finance/benefits, childcare, education and reaching out to families.

CRACKERJACK TRAINING

• Behaviour management in the early years

CREATIVITY IN PRACTICE

• Introducing Family Learning: a workshop looking at a variety of ways in which settings can help build positive relationships as well as imaginative ideas for continuation of children’s learning in the home.

CRECHENDO TRAINING

• Going into battle: workshop exploring the challenges playworkers face when children want to play-fight through discussion and experiential learning.

DAYCARE TRUST

• Encouraging the participation of parents in your centre: half-day course offering guidance on engaging and consulting with parents.

EARLY EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESOURCE CENTRE

• Learning to behave: a course aiming to enhance practitioners’ strategies for dealing with behaviour through an understanding of social and emotional skills in children.

EARLY YEARS EQUALITY

• Early years children and older people: a course considering intergenerational issues and the role that senior members of society can play in the early years. This includes older members of staff in early years settings as well as older members of communities and families, specifically the role of grandparents and grandparents as carers.

EARLY YEARS ORGANISATION

• Working in partnership with parents: this nine-hour course helps practitioners to develop the skills required to create an effective partnership with parents.

• Adult-child interactions: six-hour workshop (two three-hour sessions) exploring the critical role of interactions and relationships in the development of young children.

• Voice of the child: 12-hour programme (four three-hour sessions) exploring strategies for communicating effectively with young children. The course is accredited by OCN NI Level 2, 3 Credits.

FAMILY LIVES

• The Webster-Stratton approach: this three-day foundation module has been designed by Family Lives for those working with parents of typically developing and hard to manage two-12 year-old children. It is based on research, programme materials and the collaborative style of parent education developed by Professor Carolyn Webster-Stratton.

FORBES TRAINING

• Effective behaviour management

KIDSCAPE

• Anti-bullying: how to resolve and reduce incidents.

• Promoting positive behaviour: course covering responsibilities, policy and procedures, code of conduct and problem solving.

KIDS CITY

• Positive behaviour management: this training session provides a range of practical ideas to support and promote positive behaviour in children, looking at where, when, how, why and what challenging behaviour is presented and consider constructive ways to manage it and reduce its likelihood or repetition.

NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU

• Introduction to listening to young children: the aim of this course is to gain understanding of the importance of listening to young children and involving them in decisions that affect them. It is aimed at practitioners working with the under-fives.

• PEAL training: PEAL inspires and supports early years practitioners to develop the involvement of parents in their children's early learning and development, both at home and in settings, and to make a real difference.

NATIONAL DAY NURSERIES ASSOCIATION (NDNA)

• Working in partnership with parents: one-day course on maintaining good relationships with parents and carers

PLAY AND EARLY YEARS TRAINING UNIT

• Mine! No, mine!: one-day workshop dealing with child to child conflict resolution.

PLAYGROUP NETWORK

• Contact regional associations direct for details of training on parenting support and working with toddlers

PLAY THERAPY UK

• Certificate in therapeutic play skills - 15-day accredited course which can be used as the first part of programme leading to an MA in Practice Based Play Therapy. The course covers the theory and practice of humanistic psychology, the principles underlying both directive and non-directive play therapy and the spiritual aspect of human development.

PLAYTRAIN

• Promoting positive behaviour and self-esteem: looking at effective methods for promoting and supporting positive behaviour. Practitioners will explore some of the causes of challenging behaviour as well as look at strategies for dealing with it, and then share practical ideas for activities that encourage and develop self-esteem and confidence in children and young people.

PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE (PLA)

• Looking at learning together: helps parents to develop confidence in communicating with their child, encourage engagement in everyday activities and manage challenging behaviour.

• Hand in hand - developing independence for you and your child: supporting parents and carers whose children are starting at a new setting and who may be leaving their children for the first time.

PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE (PLA)

• Promoting positive behaviour: this course is designed to help create an environment in which children can develop self-esteem and self-discipline.

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT (PSD)

• Managing children's behaviour: one-day course covering reasons why children behave in different ways, techniques used to manage different behaviour and bullying.

• Working with parents: this one-day course covers parental participation, learning from parents and valuing parents.

STEPPING STONES TRAINING

• If I've told you once: the basics of behaviour management - covering how to manage children's behaviour more effectively and exploring key strategies through case studies.

TRAINING DESIGNS

• Managing children's behaviour: six hour course exploring why children behave in a certain way, child development linked to behaviour, using goals and boundaries, effective communication with children, developing strategies for effective behaviour management, involving parents.

• Developing effective partnerships with parents/carers: three or six hour course covering effective communication, building rapport, effective sharing of information, establishing boundaries, how to involve parents in decision making.

• Dealing with conflict

WALES PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUPS ASSOCIATION

• Managing behaviour: eight two-hour courses aim to enable participants to work effectively with children in a playgroup setting and to encourage positive behaviour. Topics include how rules, routines and the environment affect behaviour, and the use of reward and punishment.