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By teaching children healthy eating habits, and modelling these behaviours, you can help children maintain a healthy weight and normal growth. Also, the eating habits your children pick up when they are young will help them maintain a healthy lifestyle when they are adults.
Nutrition and Healthy Eating is aimed at nursery practitioners including cooks and chefs, as everyone has a responsibility to support the health and wellbeing of children they care for.

The wellbeing of staff is a key area of focus for Achieving for Children and it’s partners. Social work, SEN casework, family support work, family therapy, youth work, management, teaching, business support, early years are all highly demanding, pressured and challenging jobs. They can be both physically and emotionally draining. Support for children, young people and their families should be enhanced with support for the staff working with them. This course provides a space for staff to think about their own emotional wellbeing and consider new strategies to enhance and prioritise their own w ...

What Is Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It includes three skills:
emotional awareness; the ability to harness emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving; and the ability to manage emotions, which includes regulating your own emotions and cheering up or calming down other people.

Many experts now claim that emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) is more important than IQ - and is actually a better predictor of future success. It plays a critical role in quality of rela ...

This course will equip employees with the skills to observe and manage risk. The session will be interactive and engaging and is designed to meet the needs of practitioners working with children, young people and their families.

The training provider has a wealth of experience, they know how important it is for lone workers to have access to a practical training offer on this really important subject area. Consequently, this course is intended to provide staff who work alone with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage the risks of lone working and respond to situations of conflict w ...

Anyone whose job requires them to deal with the public can be at risk from violence. This can include employees engaged in giving a service, education, caring professions, cash transactions, delivery and collection, and controlling or representing authority (Healthy Working Lives, 2013).

This workshop will provide staff with the knowledge and skills to effectively respond to situations of conflict with service users. Such situations may include incidents where service users display aggressive or threatening behaviour or in extreme cases use physical aggression or violence. The focus of the ...

This series of three courses will focus upon how an improved understanding of attachment strategies can inform work with children, young people and families, and offer an additional lens through which to attempt to understand their behaviour in the home, in placements, and in educational settings. The courses will also introduce ideas of how workers and carers for vulnerable children and young people can adapt their ways of working in order to promote best outcomes for the children.

This course follows on from Attachment: An Introduction - Level 1. It will look in further detail at attachme ...

‘Mindfulness is a technique you can learn which involves making a special effort to notice what's happening in the present moment (in your mind, body and surroundings) – without judging anything’ (Mind, 2018).

The needs of practitioners working in children’s services are continually changing. Staff are working in a fast changing business climate with unprecedented challenges, tight finances and customers with increasing expectations. It is therefore important to provide opportunities for staff to develop their skills and knowledge in a wide range of areas to ensure success in delivering the ...

Attachment theory is one of the key theories and approaches which offers a way of thinking about the development of children and young people. It is widely used across child and adolescent mental health services, children's services, and increasingly, in adult mental health as well. It is concerned with the ways in which a child's experiences of early relationships and their environment impact upon them psychologically, and how these processes may develop and alter across the lifespan.

This series of three courses will focus upon how an improved understanding of attachment strategies can in ...

Anyone whose job requires them to deal with the public can be at risk from violence. This can include employees engaged in giving a service, education, caring professions, cash transactions, delivery and collection, and controlling or representing authority (Healthy Working Lives, 2013).

This workshop will provide staff with the knowledge and skills to effectively respond to situations of conflict with service users. Such situations may include incidents where service users display aggressive or threatening behaviour or in extreme cases use physical aggression or violence. The focus of the ...

This series of three courses will focus upon how an improved understanding of attachment strategies can inform work with children, young people and families, and offer an additional lens through which to attempt to understand their behaviour in the home, in placements, and in educational settings. The courses will also introduce ideas of how workers and carers for vulnerable children and young people can adapt their ways of working in order to promote best outcomes for the children.

This course follows on from Attachment: An Introduction - Level 1. It will look in further detail at attachme ...